Bill O’Reilly’s Views On God Cause An Existential Stephen Colbert To Contemplate Suicide

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by Jon Bershad | 11:22 am, February 4th, 2011

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Last night, Stephen Colbert made light of the attacks Anderson Cooper has received in Cairo, jokes which, this morning, we proposed were inappropriate. Fortunately, after that segment, the Comedy Central host turned to a lighter subject: the existence of God. Colbert showed a clip of Bill O’Reilly’s recent response to the critics of his much derided “God is real because the tides go in and out” quote. However, O’Reilly’s new explanations for the existence of God only soothed Colbert for a minute. The more he thought about it, the more questions it seemed to bring up. Soon Colbert had pulled out his trusty handgun and was contemplating suicide. Oh no! Could this have been O’Reilly’s plan all along?!

In O’Reilly’s video, he had asked “How did the moon get there?” This seemed like a simple enough question, but Colbert had huge problems with where that kind of thinking led.

“Look, all Bill is saying is that God is the answer to everything. And where does God come from? That’s easy…oh, God…that can’t be answered with God. I mean, how could he make himself if he wasn’t there to make him. Therefore there is no God and everything is just a chaotic collection of random energy with no meaning.”

Colbert then put his gun to his mouth, said one more “I love you, Bill O’Reilly,” and was about to end it all before he, thankfully stopped himself.

It was a funny segment made all the funnier when you remember that Colbert (the man, not the character) is actually a Sunday School teacher and probably has to give answers to these very questions every week.

Check out the clip from Comedy Central below. The O’Reilly section begins at 2:30.

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BatBoy

Not funny Colbert!
paulmdoro

BatBoy said:
Not funny Colbert!

Why not?
Annie Oakley

Colbert, if you get to joke about suicide by putting a gun in your mouth, do I get to joke about plane crashes?
tatboy

So by using gun imagry is Stephen now responsible for any act of violence in the next year???
BatBoy

paulmdoro said:
Why not?

Suicide in nothing to laugh or joke about. It is deadly serious!!!!

Do you think a picture of someone sticking a gun in their mouth is funny?

If you do … you have big issues you need to get checked out.
moriarty70

I’ve got to say, I was really expecting “That’s a good question Bill, how did it get there? To tell us how the moon got there is friend of the show Neil DeGrasse Tyson”.
paulmdoro

BatBoy said:
Suicide in nothing to laugh or joke about. It is deadly serious!!!!

Do you think a picture of someone sticking a gun in their mouth is funny?

If you do … you have big issues you need to get checked out.

Comedy is subjective, and no cause for hurling insults. I don’t think he is making fun of suicide; rather, commenting on the challenges of faith in his own special way. Don’t think it’s funny? Fine. That doesn’t mean those who do “need to get checked out.”
http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

The Intolerant Left Strikes Again!

I guess it’s OK to mock suicide, by the Progressive Left, as long as it’s cloaked in “comedy”.
- but when Rush jokes about THEIR reporters being in danger, that’s when we smell the STENCH of HYPOCRISY by these indoctrinated buffoons rear it’s perfidious odor!
TristramShandy

If only the gun and threat were real…
sarainitaly

TristramShandy said:
If only the gun and threat were real…

not cool. not funny.
sarainitaly

did o’donnell go after colbert and stewart, two people who actually joked about reporters getting “beaten”, like he falsely accused rush of doing?
CosmosDan

NORBIT Jr. said:
The Intolerant Left Strikes Again!

I guess it’s OK to mock suicide, by the Progressive Left, as long as it’s cloaked in “comedy”.
- but when Rush jokes about THEIR reporters being in danger, that’s when we smell the STENCH of HYPOCRISY by these indoctrinated buffoons rear it’s perfidious odor!

And ridiculous generalizations strike again.

EXPOSE THEM!!
Harry Flashman

I’ve been accused of being humorless for this, but I just don’t find Colbert funny.

Annoying yes. Funny – no. And this bit was especially annoying and unfunny.
paulmdoro

Harry Flashman said:
I’ve been accused of being humorless for this, but I just don’t find Colbert funny.

Not humorless. What’s more subjective than comedy?
writer

As long as he doesn’t mock Islam.
TangledThorns

Gun imagery, from the left? Say it isn’t so!! Colbert sucks.
CosmosDan

paulmdoro said:
Not humorless. What’s more subjective than comedy?

Exactly. It’s like music. We don’t all like the same thing. I’m a fan of Jon and Steve but they’re not funny all the time.
OxyCon

Boy that was some really funny shit! I really enjoyed thinking about my friends Roy and Chris who both put guns to their mouths and pulled the trigger, leaving behind two families. Suicide is hilarious! Thanks Colbert!
Harry Flashman

paul and Cosmos dan:

Point well taken. I’m a huge fan of the Mel Brooks movies, Monty Python, Richard Pryor, and others of that type humor. Benny Hill has a place in my heart. Not everyone’s cup of tea. More modern humor that I enjoy: Ron White, Coen Brothers comdies like The Big Lebowski (I think it ranks uo there with the best,) and Raising Arizona.

I…just…don’t…like…Colbert. Or Seinfeld and his irritating clutch of losers.

Go figure.
BatBoy

paulmdoro said:
Comedy is subjective

There is NO room for Comedy and Suicide in the same thought, sentance or what ever.

I will say again…

“If you do … you have big issues you need to get checked out.”
Dsiscokid

Harry Flashman said:
paul and Cosmos dan: Point well taken. I’m a huge fan of the Mel Brooks movies, Monty Python, Richard Pryor, and others of that type humor. Benny Hill has a place in my heart. Not everyone’s cup of tea. More modern humor that I enjoy: Ron White, Coen Brothers comdies like The Big Lebowski (I think it ranks uo there with the best,) and Raising Arizona. I…just…don’t…like…Colbert. Or Seinfeld and his irritating clutch of losers. Go figure.

How ’bout Larry The Cable Guy? Just curious……
paulmdoro

BatBoy said:
There is NO room for Comedy and Suicide in the same thought, sentance or what ever.

I will say again…

“If you do … you have big issues you need to get checked out.”

He is not making fun of suicide. That is reading into it too much. Step down from your high horse please. Aren’t you being too PC here? What else is off limits? Who needs to be checked out here is very subjective.
Harry Flashman

Dsiscokid asks:

“How ’bout Larry The Cable Guy? Just curious……”

Funny you should ask. That guy annoys me almost as much a Colbert. He has a better act, though.
writer

Colbert was mainly making fun of O’Reilly for his religion. They never seem to make fun of Islam, though. That’s because they actually would kill him.
paulmdoro

writer said:
Colbert was mainly making fun of O’Reilly for his religion.

Are you sure, because Colbert is a religion man (see previous mention of his Sunday School teaching). Isn’t he commenting on faith and how we can drive ourselves crazy overanalyzing the existence of God?
BatBoy

paulmdoro said:
He is not making fun of suicide.

Pictures say a 1,000 words!

Suicide has NOTHING to do with being “PC.”

I suppose if one of your student committed suicide, you would tell the parents that Colbert was just being funny, it is humorous, no big deal. You could tell them that maybe their kid didn’t mean it…he was just trying to have fun like Colbert, then the gun went off. Ha Ha…your kid was having some fun.
paulmdoro

If someone committed suicide because they saw this Colbert segment? I’d say it’s a tragedy and that person must have had serious issues. I still say he is not making fun of suicide. We interpret it differently, hence, comedy is subjective, hence, someone is being a self-righteous jerk by telling others they need help if they find it funny.
Dsiscokid

BillO – our “humble correspondent” (Insert laugh track here ______________________)
writer

So far, only South Park has dared to make fun of all religions, not just Christianity.
paulmdoro

writer said:
So far, only South Park has dared to make fun of all religions, not just Christianity.

And I’d say they’ve done a pretty wonderful job from what I’ve seen.
writer

Their mocking of Scientology was brutal. And funny.
BatBoy

paulmdoro said:
someone is being a self-righteous jerk by telling others they need help if they find it funny.

You lefties always revert to RULE 5 when you loose on the facts: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational.”

and YES YOU DO “need help if they find it funny.”
paulmdoro

BatBoy said:
You lefties always revert to RULE 5 when you loose on the facts: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational.”

and YES YOU DO “need help if they find it funny.”

What are you talking about? You started the ridicule here by stating that anyone who finds it funny needs help. I guess you righties are fans of RULE 5. And what facts? We’re talking comedy, subjectivity, so how are facts involved here?
Hugo Daun

BatBoy said:
Not funny Colbert!

Freakin’ hilarious!
tatboy

writer said:
So far, only South Park has dared to make fun of all religions, not just Christianity.

I never knew the story of John Smith or L. Ron Hubbard till South Park. Fun AND entertaining.
The Tea Weasel

If God is a merciful God, why does He allow us to kill ourselves?
If a liberal commits suicide in the woods, does it make a noise?
If Rush committed suicide, would spontaneous celebrations break out in 96 US cities?
If a liberal uses a prop gun to mock Billo, do conservatives automatically go “ballistic”?

Y’all discuss quietly amongst yourselves
Firstrate

Cobert is over the top and NOT FUNNY. Shame.
Gasket

That was goooood Colbert!
tatboy

The Tea Weasel said:
If God is a merciful God, why does He allow us to kill ourselves?If a liberal commits suicide in the woods, does it make a noise?If Rush committed suicide, would spontaneous celebrations break out in 96 US cities?If a liberal uses a prop gun to mock Billo, do conservatives automatically go “ballistic”? Y’all discuss quietly amongst yourselves

If Sarah P “targets” districts does that put blood on her hands???
http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

OMG HELL yes let me jump on this TRAIN!!!!111 Calling the PANSY LIBS “intolerant” gives me a RAGING Freedom Chubby!!!!111 It’s like when we get to call them “racist” or “sexist” — it almost makes their HEADS EXPLODE because they’ve spent all these years defending the rights of WHINY MINORITIES AND WOMEN!!!!!!!111

When will the LEFTISTS stop their neverending HATE SPEECH?!?!?!111 I am SHOCKED and OFFENDED and I cannot BELIEVE that this LEFTIST comedian would make such an INTOLERANT joke!!!!!!1111

OH. MY. GOD. I have SUCH a raging Freedom Chubby right now!!!!1111 Gotta go……..(!!!!111)
ImNotBlue

The Tea Weasel said:
If God is a merciful God, why does He allow us to kill ourselves?If a liberal commits suicide in the woods, does it make a noise?If Rush committed suicide, would spontaneous celebrations break out in 96 US cities?If a liberal uses a prop gun to mock Billo, do conservatives automatically go “ballistic”? Y’all discuss quietly amongst yourselves

Answers in order:

Free will.
Depends on the method they choose.
Probably, the angry-left is pretty disgusting that way.
Yes, just as if a Conservative uses “gun language” the left (presently) goes “ballistic.”

Aaaaand… we’re done.
Onesweetworld79

You know whats funny? Adults who still believe in imaginary figures.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

writer said:
So far, only South Park has dared to make fun of all religions, not just Christianity.

I thought they made an excellent point during the Mohammed/Family Guy episode. Comedy Central did not let them show Mohammed handing Peter a ‘fish helmet’, but did allow them to show Jesus crapping on the President and the American flag.
CosmosDan

writer said:
Colbert was mainly making fun of O’Reilly for his religion. They never seem to make fun of Islam, though. That’s because they actually would kill him.

Colbert’s joke about Islam is the death threats and him being scared to say anything bad.
Jon S, went after Iran on nuclear weapons citing their barbaric justice system as a reason they’re not allowed to join the 21st century.
CosmosDan

paulmdoro said:
Are you sure, because Colbert is a religion man (see previous mention of his Sunday School teaching). Isn’t he commenting on faith and how we can drive ourselves crazy overanalyzing the existence of God?

That’s how I took it. I can see where it would be easy to take as a slam against belief in general.
Yes, there are things that science can’t explain, but ORielly was awfully clumsy in making his point. When you defend God by denying science it just looks bad.
paulmdoro

CosmosDan said:
That’s how I took it. I can see where it would be easy to take as a slam against belief in general.
Yes, there are things that science can’t explain, but ORielly was awfully clumsy in making his point. When you defend God by denying science it just looks bad.

Obviously that means you need help. Same goes for anyone who finds South Park remotely funny since surely it’s a more offensive show than The Colbert Report.
ROCKSTEADY

Dsiscokid said:
How ’bout Larry The Cable Guy? Just curious……

HAHAHA
or Jeff Foxworthy,tho at times he can be folksy funny.I never did get stupid funny like Larry the cable guy.Humor like Politics is to each his or her own own thing.
writer

I think most comedians are missing a goldmine by focusing more on Christianity. Colbert could do a bit where he insults Islam, then a bunch of extremists capture him. Then he could fake a beheading, like Alice Cooper used to do.
paulmdoro

And now of all people Larry the Cable Guy has a History Channel show.
Courteous Commentary

I think most people who state they are upset about Colbert’s attempted “suicide,” were actually irritated because he was mocking — quite brilliantly, I might add — Mr. O’Reilly. But that’s just my opinion. Feel free to hit your obligatory thumbs down.
ROCKSTEADY

tatboy said:
John Smith

One of my absolute favorites.
ROCKSTEADY

Karl Spensen said:
raging Freedom Chubby

LOL Happy Friday!
Grammie

Courteous Commentary said:
Feel free to hit your obligatory thumbs down.

.
Well, if you insist of course.

What greater calling could one have than satisfying the srtange whims of strangers?
ROCKSTEADY

paulmdoro said:
And now of all people Larry the Cable Guy has a History Channel show.

Some Americans like stupid humor.Seeing other stupid Americans doing stupid things.It probably will be a hit.
writer

Or Colbert could do a bit as Osama Bin Laden. He’s dressed in a business suit and he’s the CEO of a big corporation. Hilarity ensues when an accountant gives the boss the latest profit statement, and Colbert looks into the camera and says “Head will roll”.
writer

Make that ‘heads’. More than just one he’s pissed at.
paulmdoro

All these ideas writer. I hope you’re living up to your name and jotting them down. Sounds like a sitcom or an Internet show.
writer

How about ‘Allah in The Family’. Or ‘Mecca Room for Daddy’? Or ‘Two and a Half Heads’?
paulmdoro

I love them all. You should be writing headlines for the NY Post or Daily News or something man. That’s a gift.
ROCKSTEADY

writer said:
How about ‘Allah in The Family’. Or ‘Mecca Room for Daddy’? Or ‘Two and a Half Heads’?

Very funny!

paulmdoro said:
I love them all. You should be writing headlines for the NY Post or Daily News or something man. That’s a gift.

I agree.
CosmosDan

writer said:
How about ‘Allah in The Family’. Or ‘Mecca Room for Daddy’? Or ‘Two and a Half Heads’?

funny stuff
Gasket

writer said:
Or Colbert could do a bit as Osama Bin Laden. He’s dressed in a business suit and he’s the CEO of a big corporation. Hilarity ensues when an accountant gives the boss the latest profit statement, and Colbert looks into the camera and says “Head will roll”.

That IS funny. Tangentially, his family has a great business too.
Nacho

OxyCon said:
Boy that was some really funny shit! I really enjoyed thinking about my friends Roy and Chris who both put guns to their mouths and pulled the trigger, leaving behind two families. Suicide is hilarious! Thanks Colbert!

I can understand the pattern of people around you.
writer

I’m toying with another idea of Bin Laden as Ward Cleaver. The Beaver comes to his dad, asking what he should do about this girl he likes. Ward straps a bomb to the boy’s chest and sends him off to school as the familiar theme song plays.

(Okay. Even I’m starting to get disturbed.)
paulmdoro

It’s got to be tough when your kids start dating. I’m sure there’s a wide array of advice at a parent’s disposal, including the classic “become a suicide bomber” suggestion.
writer

The idea wouldn’t work anyway. Osama’s beard would cover Ward’s trademark necktie.
http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

Stephen Colbert and Papa Bear are so alike sometimes.
CosmosDan

paulmdoro said:
It’s got to be tough when your kids start dating. I’m sure there’s a wide array of advice at a parent’s disposal, including the classic “become a suicide bomber” suggestion.

They blow up so quickly don’t they?
BFD

BatBoy said:
Suicide in nothing to laugh or joke about. It is deadly serious!!!!

Do you think a picture of someone sticking a gun in their mouth is funny?

If you do … you have big issues you need to get checked out.

*rolls eyes*

You’ve never seen a Scary Movie, Airplane, or Police Squad film have you?
BatBoy

paulmdoro said:
We’re talking comedy, subjectivity, so how are facts involved here?

We are talking Suicide.

The fact is that rational people do not find Suicide funny in any form.

The other fact is the irrational people do find humor in Suicide.
(Irrational is defined as: not consistent with or using reason)

Now we know where we both stand!
BFD

BatBoy said:
The fact is that rational people do not find Suicide funny in ANY FORM.

Are suicide bomber jokes are pretty funny?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNyQsH7ilIM

Lotta irrational people in that crowd!!
BFD

BFD said:
*rolls eyes*

You’ve never seen a Scary Movie, Airplane, or Police Squad film have you?

My favorite is when Frank Drebin keeps rambling on about something until his listener hangs or shoots himself. lol

Too bad our resident Comedy Nazi thinks the makers and fans of those movies are irrational.
cjd ohio 1

72 comments to get the first nazi remark, damn slow day it seems
jrd

Nacho said:
I can understand the pattern of people around you.

Why did you post this?
http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

jrd said:
Why did you post this?

Just one of those crazy tea bagger comments none of us understand, sounds like a Jared Loughner philosophy quote.
mediadoubt

Just when I think that O’Reilly is too preposterous for comedy, Colbert proves me wrong.

If you want to gaze on the face of the infinite (jest), tune to Steven.
mediadoubt

Annie Oakley said:
Colbert, if you get to joke about suicide by putting a gun in your mouth, do I get to joke about plane crashes?

I’ll speak for Colbert: Sure. Knock yourself out. Next!
mediadoubt

NORBIT Jr. said:
The Intolerant Left Strikes Again!I guess it’s OK to mock suicide, by the Progressive Left, as long as it’s cloaked in “comedy”.- but when Rush jokes about THEIR reporters being in danger, that’s when we smell the STENCH of HYPOCRISY by these indoctrinated buffoons rear it’s perfidious odor!

“Rear it’s perfidious odor!”

By any chance to you write for Sarah Palin?
mediadoubt

mediadoubt said:
“Rear it’s perfidious odor!”By any chance to you write for Sarah Palin?

By which I meant to say “*do* you write for Sarah . . .” Darn typos.
mediadoubt

OxyCon said:
Boy that was some really funny shit! I really enjoyed thinking about my friends Roy and Chris who both put guns to their mouths and pulled the trigger, leaving behind two families. Suicide is hilarious! Thanks Colbert!

You evidently haven’t healed from what were apparently traumatic events in your life. With luck, some day you will.

Which is not exactly Steven Colbert’s problem to fix, now is it?
mediadoubt

BatBoy said:
There is NO room for Comedy and Suicide in the same thought, sentance or what ever. I will say again…“If you do … you have big issues you need to get checked out.”

Hmmm. Bullshit. Grow up.
Newsjunky

Some of the funniest 5 minutes of TV I’ve seen in a while… hilarious! Thanks Colbert!
Newsjunky

BatBoy said:
We are talking Suicide.

The fact is that rational people do not find Suicide funny in any form.

But we sure do find Billo funny! What a couple of morons. Both you and him.
A man without a Country

So, you can’t defend bill and his insane commentary, but you attack the other guy for making his agrument.
A blunt point, but a good one.

Actually, the comedy was Billy- boy thinks that the planet mars doesn’t have a sun.
I can see now, why its so hard for him to understand the concept of global warming.
ProgLib

“never a miscommunication”
Phocus2

Careful where you walk Colbert…you got a little Maher on your shoe.
http://societyfordaintydamsels.wordpress.com artemesia

Writer I really like your clever comments Mecca Room for Daddy, Allah in the Family etc. What can I say. Its a matter of opinion what people think of the skit. Personally I thought it was hilarious. It was so obvious it’s a joke.
BOMBSHELL

Bill O’Reilly’s Views On God Cause An Existential Stephen Colbert To Contemplate Suicide

Can I oil the trigger for you?