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  4. Parker says

    Mr. Martin, by the beard of Zeus, you’ve done it!
    Oh and to anyone who thinks this is funny, you should definitely check out his other stuff. His one-liners killll me!
    I must say, this video was quite a refreshing change from the usual miserable human being you write about PZ. I’m ashamed to admit it, by, I think I smiled!

  7. B L Harville says

    The down side of course is that only one group of rats were following the one true rat religion. As a result, one group of rats is in rat paradise and the other group is burning in rat hell.

  10. says

    The laugh track is the sound of the rats burning in their various new hells .
    (And may the inventor of the laugh track burn in this world, rather than an imaginary hell.)

    Bloody-Fookin-Brilliant!

  14. Anon says

    … and for those concerned about animal testing, the best thing about Creedocide is that it was tested and found effective on humans first!

  16. SLW13 says

    Thank you, PZ, I am now fighting the insane urge to glue together two pencils on my desk to make a rat crucifix. OMG, Rat Crusades. That was inspired. I’m now holding out for a sequel, including – fingers crossed! – the Ratquisition. Or maybe the Salem Rat Trials.

  19. Sili says

    I think cockroaches are Hindu. Perhaps breeding very small cows would be a first step to dealing with them then.

  20. SLW13 says

    LOL, my apologies, Cokehead, to you and Monty Python. Of course you’re right. No one ever expects the Ratquisition. Their chief weapons are surprise, fear, ruthlessness, and a fanatical devotion to Rat Jesus.

  21. Epikt says

    SLW13:

    I’m now holding out for a sequel, including – fingers crossed! – the Ratquisition. Or maybe the Salem Rat Trials.

    I’m kind of hoping for a ratwah.

  22. SLW13 says

    Epikt:

    Which will hopefully be followed by a period of relative peace, known as the Protestant Ratformation.

  23. black wolf says

    Too bad the battle doesn’t really ever end as long as there’s a nest left somewhere. You know those stinking burrows where the rats all sit disciplined in straight rows, reciting the squeaks of the rat wearing the dress. Squeaking to them how they must impregnate more females and bring in their young.

  24. Andyo says

    Posted by: Ray M | February 20, 2009 1:11 PM

    Shame about the laughter track, though. I loathe and detest those.

    It’s not a laugh track per se. The show is filmed in front of a live audience, and Demetri Martin shows taped sketches and does a little standup. It’s a bit like Chappelle’s Show.

  25. Die Anyway says

    And little rat Decon-quistadores headed for South America to eliminate the Ratztecs. Now if this would only work on mosquitos.

  26. Andyo says

    By the way, you should check out Martin’s standups on youtube. The guy is brilliant. Check out his charts routine. My favorite is the glass house one. Also, on this new show, check out the time gigolo sketch.

  27. John Phillips, FCD says

    So that’s where Ratzinger comes from. Sorry, but someone had to say it. OK I’ll just get my coat.

  28. says

    Uhm… I’m not sure this would work. Wouldn’t the rat religions encourage them to have MORE babies?

    Think of the Quiverfull rats!

  30. Chief Angry Cloud says

    At first, I thought they were going to use the awful music of Creed to kill the rats (it certainly makes me want to kill myself). But this will work just as well, and it wont make your ears bleed.

  34. Epikt says

    SLW13:

    Which will hopefully be followed by a period of relative peace, known as the Protestant Ratformation.

    There can be no peace until the blasphemous author of The Ratanic Verses is killed. Allah demands it.

  36. SLW13 says

    Epikt:

    “There can be no peace until the blasphemous author of The Ratanic Verses is killed. Allah demands it.”

    Yes, I agree. He is a sorry excuse for a Mouselim.

    *Cringe* Too much? Cause I got nothin’.

  37. Ember says

    Now that’s just offensive. I’ve met a fair number of rats, and all of them were far too intelligent and good-natured to fall for a scam like that.

  38. Helioprogenus says

    When I saw this on Comedy Central, my first thought was that PZ might just get a laugh out of this. I was waiting for the Jewish rats, just so the Abrahamic triumvirate would be well represented. Maybe have them force some of the Muslim rats into a really tight walled fortress and have them starve to death.

  39. The Rentman Cometh says

    Also on a similar tack, and about ten years older, Goodness Gracious Me! had a pest controller sketch:

  42. 'Tis Himself says

    What a friend we have in Cheeses,
    Mozzarella, Cheddar, Swiss!
    Rochfort and Limberger’s sweet breezes
    Lingering like a lover’s kiss.
    Humble milk’s apotheosis,
    Muenster, Provolone, Brie
    Damn cholesterol’s thrombosis
    Cheese is Gouda stuff by me!

  43. Epikt says

    SLW13:

    Yes, I agree. He is a sorry excuse for a Mouselim.

    Too bad he can’t leave his faith. He might be happier as a Ratstafarian.

  44. Jafafa Hots says

    “damn… make that Canada not Candada!”

    Oh, so close. If only your typo had been Candida, I would have made a joke referencing that country’s favorite home-grown band, Thrush.

  45. AVSN says

    No not funny, just typical of the idiocity display by those willing to use antireligious comedy to line their pockets with money. I suppose it will appeal to a few who like vacuous comic reports.

  46. Jafafa Hots says

    “No not funny, just typical of the idiocity display by those willing to use antireligious comedy to line their pockets with money.”

    All comedy makes fun of something in some way or another. You seem to be suggesting that religion should not ever be mocked or made fun of?

    The least I can say about that is that it’s good evidence that you’re not someone who is an expert on comedy. Get a fucking sense of humor. I’m sure there were plenty of religious people who got a chuckle out of it.

  47. AVSN says

    I do have a sense of humour, just didn’t find the video funny. I find the constant barrage of the antireligion in modern comedy tedious. What ever happened to good old fashion comedy like Red Buttons and Victor Borge?

  49. Jafafa Hots says

    “I do have a sense of humour, just didn’t find the video funny. I find the constant barrage of the antireligion in modern comedy tedious. What ever happened to good old fashion comedy like Red Buttons and Victor Borge?”

    Constant barrage of antireligion in comedy? Get a grip. Antireligious comedy is relatively rare. Of all the comedy that comes across your TV machine, probably less than 1% is “antireligious.” There’s plenty of “Everybody Loves Raymond” to numb your brain to.

    The only thing is now there is SOME comedy that mocks religion. You have to seek it out… it’s not going to be on a CBS sitcom. Now, compared to the 1950s that might seem like a barrage to those who are intolerant to it.

    Comedy is best when it goes after sacred cows. Richard Pryor. George Carlin. Lenny Bruce (when he was still funny).

    What happened to Victor Borge and Red Buttons? They died.
    No criticism of Borge though… that phonetic punctuation bit? Comedy gold. Why, I myself probably laughed at that period that sounds like phlegm the first several hundred times I heard it.

  51. Helioprogenus says

    Damn today’s progressive comedy. What ever happened to the 3 stooges type comedy. Find me some pliers and your nose, and we’ll figure it all out. Oh, I long for the days when comedy was Curly rolling on the floor, or Groucho Marx using wordplay, or better yet, when Greek tragedy was so extensive, that it was comedy. Anyway, the point AVSN, is that pining for the days when something was some way, may make you feel wholesome and nostalgic, but get with the times. Besides, political and religious humor is funny.

    Think about all the idiotic dogma that each of these fairy worshipers believe in? Some believe that when you die, then there’s a place where 72 virgins will do unspeakably kinky things to you, while others believe that your invisible fairy chose you as the self-righteously chosen race, while another group believes that when you eat a cracker and drink some wine, you’re consuming a sky fairy’s offspring that is in itself the sky fairy incarnate. If you can’t poke fun at this idiocy, than you either lack any cynicism, or you just don’t understand the jokes. It’s one thing to respect a stupid religion, but to respect it to a point where you can’t even laugh at the idiocy of it all.

    You probably assume this anti-religious comedy is widespread because the Daily show has done some stuff, or the Colbert Report, or even a few Comedians here and there. Taking all comedy together, most of it is the same brainwashing entertainment you get when you wait for your neighbor to trip over a banana peel. So excuse the sophisticated ones that make you realize the inanity of religious idiocy.

  52. AVSN says

    Pining for? Nah. Happily remembered perhaps. I will says this: belief that religion is inanity is most certainly not a sign of the sophisticated.

  53. AVSN says

    SORRY. Guess I posted too late. Lost the bet. (Pity coulda used the 200$.) Had two hours to make one of you idiots insult me personally, you failed.

  54. Jafafa Hots says

    Interesting, AVSN. Your bet that you would be personally insulted was I presume predicated on the belief that atheists are rude, nasty sorts… and then you call us idiots.

    Strange way of asserting some sort of imagined superiority.

  55. DLC says

    And of course, most of the rats will ignore the words of scholars like P Zed Mouse and Ratchard Dawkins, and refuse to turn away from the insanity of religion. Of course, some will probably fall prey to L Rat Hubbard’s Rodentology.
    /joke

  57. says

    Hilarious, wasn’t it? Those rats sure were silly, being misled that way. I’m glad we humans are too smart to be sucked into anything like that.

  58. Ragutis says

    Posted by: Jafafa Hots | February 20, 2009 11:44 PM

    Interesting, AVSN. Your bet that you would be personally insulted was I presume predicated on the belief that atheists are rude, nasty sorts… and then you call us idiots.

    Strange way of asserting some sort of imagined superiority.

    That’s some WIN right there, folks.

    Loved the torches and pitchsporks.

  59. AVSN says

    Jafafa your presume wrong. I do not imagine myself superior, nor do I believe an atheist rude or nasty, just those who are, and are there a lot of ’em. Know from personal experience. Met two of the local crowd, who have a cable access show. Spout the same tripe that PZ and Dickie do. As one who has both reason and faith at my disposal, I know these vocal types for what they are, fools.
    Yes certainly that is my opinion. Reinforced by the way by reading Dawkins grindingly obtuse book. (I had to reread some of the more poorly written parts, he really should’ve used a ghostwriter.) I am willing to agree to disagree however. I truly believe in every one’s freedom, even the freedom to be foolishl.

  60. Rey Fox says

    “Had two hours to make one of you idiots insult me personally, you failed.”

    We can also set our watches by the regularity with which every idiot who comes in here and whines about the latest post then turns his whines to how meeeean we all are. I’m quite happy to be dismissive and insulting towards the terminally banal and wounded.

  61. Carlie says

    I will says this: belief that religion is inanity is most certainly not a sign of the sophisticated.

    Of course not. In order to be truly sophisticated, one must have an imaginary friend of just the right sort, right? Preferably with a pretty clubhouse to play dress-up and go to every so often.

  62. 'Tis Himself says

    I truly believe in every one’s freedom, even the freedom to be foolishl.

    Nobody here will disagree with you on this. What we do disagree is whether believing in The Big Guy In The Sky is foolish or not.

  63. mikecbraun says

    I also thought Scott Stapp from Creed was going to attack rats in a drunken stupor while uttering silly lyrics and trying to sound like Eddie Vedder mixed with Layne Staley. Maybe there would be the obligatory Christ pose in there somewhere. Demetri Martin is funny.

  64. mikecbraun says

    AVSN, are you ignorant? Look at the biggest comedians in the world today (arguably): Dane Cook and Jeff Dunham. One is a theistic douchebag who wants to print the Bible on atheists who reincarnate as trees (?), and the other uses puppets to voice his bigotry, which is even kookier than being religious. Both play the Megadome in your state next week. Meanwhile, greats such as Patton Oswalt toil in relative obscurity.

  65. Tubbolard says

    Patton Oswalt is obscure for good reason I’m sure. Don’t know why, but sure as shootin’ it a good reason. Print the Babble on reincarnated atheists? I gotta watch Dane Cook more, haden’t heard that one.