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VIDEO: Comedy Central vs. God

Posted on | June 4, 2010 | 22 Comments

Viacom declares open season on Jesus:

Michelle Oddis at Human Events:

A group of prominent conservatives spoke out Thursday against an animated series that Viacom’s Comedy Central is developing called “JC,” saying it was a “glaring double standard where religious matters are concerned.” . .
[Brent] Bozell said [Citizens Against Religious Bigotry] has sent letters to over 250 top television advertisers asking them not to sponsor the show, saying that “anyone who advertises on this show will be a sponsor of anti-Christian bigotry as far as we’re concerned, so we’re asking them to distance themselves from this.”
“We feel quite confident that once they see what exactly they would be sponsoring that no decent company is going to want to have anything to do with this,” said Bozell.

Citizens Against Religious Bigotry online petition.

Category: Religion, Video

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22 Responses to “VIDEO: Comedy Central vs. God”

  1. Tavis Smiley
    June 4th, 2010 @ 6:17 pm

    Isn’t Comedy Central worried about Christianist Terrorists storming the building or doing a Columbine or something?

    I mean, they might even boycott the show or call sponsors and get them to not support it.

    Which is why I am glad I am attached to the teat of Public Television. That makes me the independent thinker I am.

  2. Tavis Smiley
    June 4th, 2010 @ 1:17 pm

    Isn’t Comedy Central worried about Christianist Terrorists storming the building or doing a Columbine or something?

    I mean, they might even boycott the show or call sponsors and get them to not support it.

    Which is why I am glad I am attached to the teat of Public Television. That makes me the independent thinker I am.

  3. Tavis Smiley
    June 4th, 2010 @ 6:40 pm

    Ratings? Who needs any stinking ratings? I work for PBS.

    If I need ratings, I can slam Christians. That is worth a couple of thousand extra viewers just to see if I say anything else offensive. And that triples my viewership!

  4. Tavis Smiley
    June 4th, 2010 @ 1:40 pm

    Ratings? Who needs any stinking ratings? I work for PBS.

    If I need ratings, I can slam Christians. That is worth a couple of thousand extra viewers just to see if I say anything else offensive. And that triples my viewership!

  5. keyboard jockey
    June 4th, 2010 @ 7:44 pm

    Comedy Central has Comedy in their title…shouldn’t they be funny, you know like comedic-ally? Just sayin.

  6. keyboard jockey
    June 4th, 2010 @ 2:44 pm

    Comedy Central has Comedy in their title…shouldn’t they be funny, you know like comedic-ally? Just sayin.

  7. ak4mc
    June 4th, 2010 @ 8:02 pm

    I hate it when any identity group equates “making fun” of whatever group they are with anti-(us) bigotry — even if I’m a member of said group.

    Anybody that can’t take a joke at their own expense deserves to be ridiculed relentlessly until they grow a skin or curl up and die.

  8. ak4mc
    June 4th, 2010 @ 3:02 pm

    I hate it when any identity group equates “making fun” of whatever group they are with anti-(us) bigotry — even if I’m a member of said group.

    Anybody that can’t take a joke at their own expense deserves to be ridiculed relentlessly until they grow a skin or curl up and die.

  9. FenelonSpoke
    June 4th, 2010 @ 8:12 pm

    The problem is it would be one thing if either practicing Jews or Christians were poking fun in a lighthearted way about Jesus. I doubt that’s the case, however. They wouldn’t have the nuts to make a program about crazy and wild Mohammed because they’d receive death threats. But comedy about Jesus-that’s fair game.

  10. FenelonSpoke
    June 4th, 2010 @ 3:12 pm

    The problem is it would be one thing if either practicing Jews or Christians were poking fun in a lighthearted way about Jesus. I doubt that’s the case, however. They wouldn’t have the nuts to make a program about crazy and wild Mohammed because they’d receive death threats. But comedy about Jesus-that’s fair game.

  11. Pinky
    June 4th, 2010 @ 9:56 pm

    I dunno. I can’t get worked up about this. It just seems so sad, a scrawny kid gets beaten on the playground and then takes out his embarrassment by punching the one kid he knows won’t hit back.

  12. Pinky
    June 4th, 2010 @ 4:56 pm

    I dunno. I can’t get worked up about this. It just seems so sad, a scrawny kid gets beaten on the playground and then takes out his embarrassment by punching the one kid he knows won’t hit back.

  13. ak4mc
    June 4th, 2010 @ 10:47 pm

    poking fun in a lighthearted way about Jesus

    Not having seen the show, I don’t know whether they are or not — but before I start calling it bigotry I’d damn well wait and see.

  14. ak4mc
    June 4th, 2010 @ 5:47 pm

    poking fun in a lighthearted way about Jesus

    Not having seen the show, I don’t know whether they are or not — but before I start calling it bigotry I’d damn well wait and see.

  15. Vegas Harry
    June 5th, 2010 @ 5:06 am

    Comedy Central Vs. God?

    My money’s on God.

  16. Vegas Harry
    June 5th, 2010 @ 12:06 am

    Comedy Central Vs. God?

    My money’s on God.

  17. CommonSense
    June 5th, 2010 @ 5:12 am

    ak4mc-Common sense requires that you consider the source. If Hamas is planning a show about Israel, I don’t have to see it to know there will be bigotry. If the Klan is planning a show about blacks, I don’t have to see it to know there will be bigotry. If militant secular atheists make a show about Christ, I don’t have to see it to know the context, nor to know the hateful audience it is designed to market to. To compare this to the many over-sensitive “identity groups” who regard any criticism or even observation as raaaaaacism or bigotry is an inappropriate and specious comparison.

  18. CommonSense
    June 5th, 2010 @ 12:12 am

    ak4mc-Common sense requires that you consider the source. If Hamas is planning a show about Israel, I don’t have to see it to know there will be bigotry. If the Klan is planning a show about blacks, I don’t have to see it to know there will be bigotry. If militant secular atheists make a show about Christ, I don’t have to see it to know the context, nor to know the hateful audience it is designed to market to. To compare this to the many over-sensitive “identity groups” who regard any criticism or even observation as raaaaaacism or bigotry is an inappropriate and specious comparison.

  19. pH
    June 5th, 2010 @ 12:19 pm

    most of that stuff is pretty lame — not funny at all, just plain grossout/offensive — and of course the capitulation of comedy central and south park to muslim lobbying in the past somehow highlights their desperation in attempting to appear “edgy” while engaging in the by-now fully-socially-sanctioned mocking of christianity…

    that being said, the joke about “i’ll pray for you” is actually hilarious, imo. i know quite a few rather noxiously self-righteous christians who use that phrase in such a way that is meant to communicate:

    “hah, well i’m much more holy than you, so my opinion of your spiritual standing is a weighty matter, so i’ll let you know that i judge you to be in such dire need of improvement that even i will offer on your behalf my holy prayers to God, to whom i am far closer than you are, you see!”

    “f you” in christian, really.

  20. pH
    June 5th, 2010 @ 8:19 am

    most of that stuff is pretty lame — not funny at all, just plain grossout/offensive — and of course the capitulation of comedy central and south park to muslim lobbying in the past somehow highlights their desperation in attempting to appear “edgy” while engaging in the by-now fully-socially-sanctioned mocking of christianity…

    that being said, the joke about “i’ll pray for you” is actually hilarious, imo. i know quite a few rather noxiously self-righteous christians who use that phrase in such a way that is meant to communicate:

    “hah, well i’m much more holy than you, so my opinion of your spiritual standing is a weighty matter, so i’ll let you know that i judge you to be in such dire need of improvement that even i will offer on your behalf my holy prayers to God, to whom i am far closer than you are, you see!”

    “f you” in christian, really.

  21. ak4mc
    June 5th, 2010 @ 2:48 pm

    Common sense requires that you consider the source.

    Oh, I already have. Their track record when it comes to attempts to make fun of Christianity leads me to believe ratings will achieve far more effectively what this advocacy group claims to want to make happen.

    I’ve also considered the source when it comes to the advocacy group: this is fundraising-letter material, nothing more.

    To compare this to the many over-sensitive “identity groups” who regard any criticism or even observation as raaaaaacism or bigotry is an inappropriate and specious comparison.

    No, it’s absolutely spot-on. It’s all about embracing the status of victim, and I say the hell with it.

  22. ak4mc
    June 5th, 2010 @ 10:48 am

    Common sense requires that you consider the source.

    Oh, I already have. Their track record when it comes to attempts to make fun of Christianity leads me to believe ratings will achieve far more effectively what this advocacy group claims to want to make happen.

    I’ve also considered the source when it comes to the advocacy group: this is fundraising-letter material, nothing more.

    To compare this to the many over-sensitive “identity groups” who regard any criticism or even observation as raaaaaacism or bigotry is an inappropriate and specious comparison.

    No, it’s absolutely spot-on. It’s all about embracing the status of victim, and I say the hell with it.