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Sarah Silverman's Latest Attempt At Viral Infamy: Saving The World

Foster Kamer — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:15:00 EDT

Comedienne Sarah Silverman's no longer busy with Jimmy Kimmel. Or, as her last attempt at viral video fame would have it, schtupping Matt Damon. Silverman's going for viral video fame again, and she debuted it on Bill Maher's show Friday.

She's trying to save the world. And she's going to do it by selling the Vatican.

Some people like it! Others do not. Personally, I'm a fan, because Vatican humor tickles me. But if Silverman's trying to manufacture controversy by putting the words "pope" and "pussy" within spitting distance of each other, she's still got a ways to go before she tops this.

God's Eight-Legged Operative Fails To Complete Reconnaissance Mission

Foster Kamer — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:40:00 EDT

Hey! It's a the pope! And his friend, LUCIFER THE MORNING STAR SPIDER. Watch the little devil get bored with the pope's sermon while looking for his swastika tattoo, and then: leave. This is strangely hypnotizing.

Oh My Fucking Pope

Richard Lawson — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:50:00 EDT

Funny thing from Radar: Pope visit OMFG posters, in the style of Gossip Girl's silly yet effective marketing campaign. Click thumb for larger image at Radar.

Dear Bill Maher: The Pope's Not So Bad!

Pareene — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:20:02 EDT

The Mohammad cartoons, the purposefully extra-offensive South Park episodes, and Bill Maher: not funny. Also, if you ignore them, they can't hurt you! SO WHY DON'T PEOPLE EVER IGNORE THEM? Bill Maher said something OUTRAGEOUS about the Pope, and the Catholic church. The outrageous thing he said is argurably true, if inelegantly put. Specifically, he called the Pope a Nazi, which he very briefly was when he was a little boy, and he called the Catholic Church a "child-abusing cult," which, if you have a broad-enough definition of cult, is basically what they are. Anyway—the American Life League has launched a website calling for Maher to be fired from his little HBO show. Ok guys! Jesus, you're getting all worked up about Bill Maher? There is a rich history of virulent anti-Catholicism in this great nation, but it pretty much ended once we all decided the Irish were allowed to be White. Attacking the Pope is no more "hate speech" than calling George W. Bush a war criminal. But: confidential to Bill M: you're taking on the Pope? You got nothing better to do with your time? He's not that bad! Seriously, as Popes go, he's one of the least damaging ever.

Jon Stewart had one line the other night about how the Popes have gotten so much nicer since the Catholic church no longer has an actual army. And it's true! There's plenty to criticize, what with the anti-reproductive rights thing, but they're not killing infidels or holding inquisitions anymore! No one's drinking the liquor of succession or raping their own nieces!

Seriously, crusades now are carried on by supposedly secular governments, the worst offenses by religion against the greater good are perpetrated by extremist Islamist clerics and evangelical huckster preachers and even the Jews have more dangerous terrorists than the Catholics these days.

So Bill, it's fun to mock the Pope for looking like Emperor Palpatine, but at least he doesn't have enough power anymore to act like Emperor Palpatine.

And Catholics, please, make like the rest of the nation and stop paying attention to Bill Maher.

Kreepie Kats in "The Day My Nipples Stood Still"

behrle — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:02:03 EDT

[Today, Jim Behrle's kartoon kats, stuck at the airport, offer their patented homespun wisdom to possibly out-going CBS newsanchor Katie Couric, the Dalai Lama, and the Pope. Then they have a dildo war. Watch it above, or click here.]