George Carlin died of heart failure. One of the great comics, he railed against nearly everything, including this favourite segment on religion:
Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do every minute of every day, and the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do! And if you do any of these ten things he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever until the end of time. But he loves you!
Yes, that’s right, Alice and I are coming out of the cupboard. We are Pastafarians. We’ve publicly declared our beliefs through the power of the licence plate.
Apparently professing (and crudely exclaiming) your disbelief for an invisible sky man is bleep-worthy:
“Kathy Griffin’s offensive remarks will not be part of the E! telecast on Saturday night,” the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said in a statement Monday.
In her speech, Griffin said that “a lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus.”
She went on to hold up her Emmy, make an off-color remark about Christ and proclaim, “This award is my god now!”
The off-colour remark?
“Suck it, Jesus!”
In the same story, MSN apparently doesn’t have a thesaurus that includes the words “penis” or “dick”, words that would come in handy when talking about “Dick In A Box“.
