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You almost had me hook, line, and sinker! I had already started writing a comment about how this Elton-John-like talent was wasted on an imaginary deity, and then the second half of the song kicked in! This song is a tour-de-force, an amazing f**k you to religion. Never heard of him before this, but I am now a huge Tim Minchin fan! Thanks for the introduction…
You’ve never heard of Tim Minchin?! Then, my friend, have a treat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB_htqDCP-s
That’s the highbrow stuff! Although this song is much more clever than it might appear at first listening.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRDfut2Vx0
I got to see him perform this live at TAM last year – one of only 3 standing ovations over the weekend (the others being for Randi and Rhys Morgan) which is something considering the quality of the rest of the line-up. We also got the première of the cartoon version of Storm…
The above link is most definitely NSFW. Or small ears.
It’s only a little less NSFW than my favorite, “Ten Foot Cock and a Few Hundred Virgins.”
My new favourite is Lullaby, a song that you will probably feel guilty for laughing at. Not safe for work if you have colleagues with kids. Then again… Depends on the kids.
I’ve seen him perform this live on the Orchestra Tour :-) You may feel free to be jealous :-p
I want to charge you for how much jealousy I fell. That will be $1,000,000!
*feel…
It’s not his fault you fell! God just didn’t heal your cateracts.
I’ll have to be the lone dissenter in this thread … I’ve seen one of Tim Minchin shows on TV and I’ve got to say I was severely underwhelmed. Myself and my better half watched it for about 15-20 mins and so wanted it to be funny (there’s been lots of “hype” about how good he is and it sounded like the type of act we would like), but to no avail – so we changed channels and watched something else, ho … hum.
The insidious nature of the song is great. It should be a real fun to show it to fundies, preferably ones who heard of Tim Minchin, and watch as their smugness turn into horror just before their head explode.
I can just see a g0d-bot who knows Tim smiling gleefully at the beginning then slowly watch as the stunned look of horror spreads, assuming of course its one of the brighter ones that who get it.
When he performed it in Cardiff, one woman did actually storm out after the lyric about God being a c*nt (incidentally dragging her reluctant looking husband with her). Not sure what she expected at a Tim Minchin gig! He also did a new lead-in for The Pope Song which was good, but I’ve not seen it posted online anywhere.
Awwwww, did someone make fun of her invisible friend?
Did she not know who Tim Minchin is?
Ha, ha! I would have expected a bolt of lightning to strike Tim when he called God a c*nt. Maybe God slept through the song. Maybe God wasn’t at the show. Maybe God … doesn’t exist! I guess that’s why religions have blasphemy laws, because God doesn’t seem to be man enough to defend himself, eh?
While I try to stay away from that word I feel it was put to good use here.
I doubt God cares what we call Him.
Who???????????????????????? Show me some evidence for your invisible Ghod. You know what they say about invisibility don’t you? If it’s invisible, it probably is non-existant!
That’s true, for exactly the same reason that Rainbow Bright doesn’t care what you call her.
Obviously the muzzies don’t mind it when you send up another version of god. If Minchin had sung about the muzzy version, uh, mohammud or something, he’d need protection.
Er, excuse me, but buy a ticket and go watch his show. He does rip into Islam, with great accuracy.
Nice jihad envy you got there Robster!
He might look like a loony but omfsm his songs just are amazing. Brilliant. What a genius. :D
Tim Minchin is, dare I say, a Genius! Thank you “Load” for giving him to us. I’ve been a fan for a long time. I will now go to the You tube site and forward this video to all the names in my address book. Bless you tim, you really had me going when the song first started…. I thought you had sold out, but you confirmed my estimate of your “Genius-ness” as the song progressed. You make my heart happy, and you put a huge smile on my face…………
One of the better Minchin songs. Not really a fan of his, haha.
I wish he’d appear in South Florida…….. I’d definitely pay to see him.
Would he get out alive? Florida tends to be very strongly opinionated about the special place of their gawd.
He played Florida last month I thnk.
Just out of curiosity Custy, how many U.S. States (you mentioned Florida) does the average Brit know really? Just wondering. I imagine maybe NY, CA, TX, FL maybe PA, MA? Strange question I know but the fact that you even mentioned FL got me wondering! Do you learn these in school or just from the news, media, etc? I’m serious, I’m curious.
All the best.
I guess I could probably name half of them from memory if I really tried. It’s just geography, we learn stuff like that in school. Not necessarily the names of states, but some important geological stuff is in the USA, so we learn where it is.
A more interesting question is how many states can the average american name?
Without googling;
Hawaii, Alaska, Oregon, California, Maine, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, Illinois, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Rhode Island (is that a separate state?)
How many UK counties can you name? :-) And that’s not a jibe
oops, forgot Iowa, birthplace of James T Kirk (or will be in the future).
Uhm… Carolina? Is there a South and North Carolina? Maybe Mississippi and Missouri too, it’s easy to remember those rivers and I though Washington was a state too.
(yeah, not english but I’m too from europe, does that count?)
I didn’t learn of them in school, but we do see a lot of TV produced in the US.
Loaded it and took it home to watch. Minchin is still brilliant.
Clearly, Tim Minchin just doesn’t understand.
Excuse me, I wasn’t born in Florida, I was born in Brooklyn NY, then my parents moved us to Long Island when I was 13, and it’s only been for the last 10 years that I’ve lived in Florida….. Since my retirement. I live in Palm Beach County, where many ex-New Yorkers retired to. Tim would be very welcome here, and I dare say….. he’d probably be able to escape with his life still in reasonably good condition. Not too many “Red-Necks” amungst all us NY Jews……..
Ha! Even my religiously oblivious and politically tone-deaf husband enjoyed that (and guffawed at the swear words).