Norm McDonald walked off Politically Incorrect because Bill Maher called God a Big Head in The Sky. Norm said: First you are stealing George Carlin’s material and I believe in one God the Father Almighty and God is not A Big Head in The Sky! Norm McDonald, never returned to Politically Incorrect. May he R.I.P.
That bit about the guy dying of vocal chord cancer reminded me of something. You cannot convince me that God does not have a sense of humor. My favorite example of this is Voltaire. He claimed that a hundred years from him there would be no Bibles except in museums . . . then, sixty years after his death, his house was turned into a storage and distribution center for Bibles. There’s also the unfortunate incident of the *Titanic,* where one of the crew members boasted that God Himself couldn’t sink the ship. We all know how that went down.
I'm a right wing atheist that believes in live and let live when it comes to what you believe. But I gotta say it's frustrating to hear the bs about Christopher Hitchens. He smoked like a chimney for decades. Why is it when a Christian dies of throat cancer from smoking it's not God who killed them, but if it's an atheist...oh yeah totally Gods vengeance. God doesn't need to take revenge, that's basically the premise of the New Testament. Who are you to attribute acts of cruelty to God? Why would you even want to? If you think God gave humans the freedom to choose. You should respect those that do honestly.
was going to say something similar. Cancer is a bunch of rebellious cells. and surprisingly, a guy using his voice to rebel against God, would have Cancer in the place of his voice.
Because atheism is a religion. A religion is a faith based belief that seeks to answer ultimate questions such as the origin and purpose of life. It takes a lot of faith to be an atheist
@Cherokee9898 True, though I would go further than that. While not explicitly a religion, many aethistic religions exist. Humans seek virtue and we contain the ability to reason. Through this, people find religion. It's why many aethists you hear (especially online) typically fall into a political cult like socialism. Which, as the founders of socialism recognized, is a religion upon itself..
Tim Hawkins is one of the best Christian comedians we have today. I loved it when he said, to those who deny the existence of GOD, . . "You have a computer in your head that's made of meat."
@@patriciafeehan7732to be fair saying it can’t be reproduced is a lie. That’s like someone in 1760 thinking the mind can’t be reproduced -even with all their MIDERN TECHNOLOGY. you think just cause it’s 2024 we have reached the pinnacle of technology.
6:16 Yoooo Jeff Allen is genuinely one of the funniest comedians ever. His testimony is beautiful too, he now preaches the Gospel at every one of his shows
I 100% believe Dane Cook Got Black Listed in Hollywood after that Joke about the Tree and the Atheist 🌳 However I’ve talked to Dane cook on tik tok live he is still very funny very much touring the country doing live shows. He is 50 and he is still doing awesome like he is my age 😂. Dane cook has always been Hilarious still is hilarious. Dont miss out He is also one of the nicest people I’ve ever met celebrity wise Just a kind man cracking jokes
It had nothing to do with the Bible tree joke. That bit was from vicious circle in 2006, he had multiple movies after that bit came out as well as a 2007 special he filmed in a sold out Madison Square Garden. The bit was featured on HBO and was constantly played on Comedy Central. He was stealing jokes, that’s why he fell off
@@Selrisitaiyea that’s not how that works at all. That’s like stealing someone’s car and saying just because you put a unique paint job on it that it’s yours now
I had a roommate back in college that was atheist. He hated it when I would say bless you after he sneezed, always 3 massive sneezes like it was preprogrammed. So I started saying F**** Y** every time he sneezed, which made him just as upset... damned if I do damned if I don't
@@joehooper89 🤣🤣🤣 That’s hilarious! To be offended by an inoffensive, inherently positive thing is ridiculous, and you did a great job of ridiculing him.
I have met a guy like that! It blew my mind. Dane Cook of all ppl had an awesome joke about that. Worth finding Edit: I gotta stop reading comments before the video.😅
@@Peter-ff1tp well you're on the bandwagon. He made me laugh. That's just me. I'm not out here shutting down what makes you happy or laugh, am I? So just stop.
The best anti atheist bit was that of Tim Hawkins. “I recently read about atheist mega churches and as a comedian my mind exploded. Where do you start with it? What do you do at an atheist mega church? Do you have coffee and donuts? What do you call it? The bitter cup?” Lol
@@CheerfullyCynical829 we came from God the universe did not form because of an explosion from nowhere and life and consciousness did not come randomly from the ocean out of nowhere
@@CheerfullyCynical829 There is not a shred of evidence for macroevolution. Natural Selection, Time, and Chance seem to have all the magical powers of God, when you really think about. Natural Selection, Time, and Chance of the gaps.
Jeff Allen is criminally underrated as a comedian. He is genuinely one of the funniest and wholesome comedians. He doesn’t rely on vulgarity or cursing. He has genuinely great bits. I’ve watched a lot of specials and even the best comedians will kind of have a lull moment somewhere in the middle or close to the end of their hour set, but Jeff’s “the America I grew up in” I was laughing start to finish. I actually had to pause it to rest my face cause it was tired from laughing so much
@@PHXNKVHXLICit would be very easy to do miracles and show unbelievers but getting Church goers to do right today and listen to the God of the bible, be right and moral and do the things required such as grow in the spirit to perform miracles is a hard part today. It should at some point be clear to you the rest of the world is cursed and but some how a people do well and end up blessed. The bible says that if you will tithe be the devourer will be stopped but you often dont see the church do it but its pretty obvious generous people do well. The Bible claims many great things. Different to the books found elsewhere where they dont claim anything great and tell you to do whatever you want. Christianity could not exist if it could perform no miracles in the days it came into the world. You can find proof if you look. I would not however go to a God less church building or read a cult book that is not a real translation. Being that God is absolutely good and we are in a world ran by the sons of men who are not absolutely good who have the current lease to rule the earth (for a short time until it ends) I would not expect your going to hear directly from God in any voice unless your born again. Though unless the Church remembers its supposed to go do real miracles it may be hard to convince anyone. The Churchs needs to be Christian again.
@@PHXNKVHXLIC Where does your intellect come from? Why do humans have consciences and all human cultures have standards of right and wrong unlike the animals? Why is the planet Earth so perfectly tuned for fostering life when no other planet, in all the planets we have discovered, is like that?
I'm saddened that Dane Cook had such a falling out in public opinion. Of course not every joke landed, especially in his later routines, but the guy was, for a time, the biggest act in comedy and could level an arena with side-splitting laughter. He also was a decent actor; I still enjoy "Employee of the Month." I thought he'd be destined to be a late night host but it wasn't meant to be. I'd love to see a comeback.
2:20 hahahahaha the attempt to go deep into the technicalities is so cool...I feel like that when someone tells me 'this is the fault of capitalism' hahahaha
Tim Hawkins has good atheist material. One of his jokes talks about an atheist hitting a home run in baseball and instead of pointing up to heaven while running the bases, he hits the ball and meanders around because it is meaningless.
Thanks for exposing me to him. South Park still wins in the who has made the best jokes about atheists. But that song routine was very quite clever. I keep on hoping for someone to come up with a really solid joke about us that can get spread the way we can religious jokes. We want to laugh at ourselves too, and we demand equal representation XD
@@oddinary_kayone of the traditional acts of contrition Catholics know involves saying you are sorry for your sins not only because of the “loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell” but also because they offend God “who is all good and deserving of all my love”
I like and appreciate Michael Knowles interpretations of many clips -- there is a calmness plus general rationalization that cannot be easily argued. AND one massive point to Mr Knowles is his affection for people taking the micky out of him - he appears to appreciate it when done well -=- Live Long Mr Knowles
Norm is a legend. One of the coolest things about him was that he was sick for so long and didn't want to make others sad so he gave fun interviews focused on comedy even while he was very ill. Hilarious and also a very respectable man.
6:00 - I never understood all the Dane hate. Is he the best comic? Certainly not. But he has some solid jokes, especially on his first 3 albums. And he revolutionized the comedian/fan relationship and was one of the pioneers to using social media to promote himself. I agree with Michael, we need a Dane-ssance.
You know how it is, hating people becomes trendy and people love jumping on trains. Mob mentality, people love being a part of something. I’m with you, I enjoy some of his comedy
I think norm Macdonald is the greatest comedian of our time but I’m also not a narrow minded idiot so I also like other comedians who aren’t as good like Dane cook. It’s a character flaw I know, to see value in as many things as I can
@@MikeMarlowe-ym3zy norm is definitely one of the goats, but comedy is subjective. Dane was partly responsible for getting into stand up comedy - I was a teenager when he did Harmful if Swallowed and Retaliation, so I was his prime demographic. My tastes have changed since then and there are comics with far more longevity (Louis CK, Chapelle, Burr, etc), but Dane doesn't deserve all the hate he gets imo. He had his time and place.
Trump finished his one term with 1 cabinet member still in office, had 5 different National Security Advisers in 4 years and pardoned a list of his own hires for felonies before eventually becoming a convicted felon himself. Great choice to lead the country.
My only complaint about Dane Cook's style (at least at the time, I haven't kept up with him) is that he tended to stray off course throughout his bits. He'd still steer back to the focus EVENTUALLY, but not without some random bit about using a spray bottle or how to pronounce Gesundheit. The cut down bit in this video shows just how much fat they trimmed to maintain a cohesive story. His logic WITHIN his comedy is awesome
His woman drivers joke in the Weekly Update (or whatever it was called) has lived in my head rent free for years. It's such a treat to get three punchlines for the price of one.
I liked the Pete Holmes joke talking about the idea that nothing led to everything. It's hard to make fun of someone believing in God's existence if you believe nothing started everything because nothing definitely doesn't exist lol
Yet atheists don’t make that claim. So it remains easy to poke fun at believers since their claims are based on ridiculous books and special feelings. No wonder theism is fading.
It's not that I believe we came from nothing, rather it's just the fact that we don't really know. I don't know where we came from. But there were a lot of things we didn't know in the past that we know today, aren't there? Perhaps the future humans will learn about it, but not us. That's what I believe. You might say "Why don't you just believe the bible if you don't have anything to believe in" and my response is that instead of believing in something unprovable, I would rather believe that we will prove it, but not now.
I was ambivalent to christianity for a long time. I grew up in Sweden in the 1980s in a culture that had been completely molded by socialism. That molding certainly extended to our state church and still exists today. Many of our priests are straight-up communists and more interested in politics than religion. I became an atheist in the 1990s as an act of defiance against socialism. I've grown closer to God in recent years but there are few options for organized christianity in Sweden besides the state church.
1) Dane Cook being "raised Catholic" does not mean he is a Christian. I don’t care what he was raised, I care what he believes. And his lifestyle choices for a very long time were not exactly God-fearing, and one of the reasons he fell out of favor is because he married someone MUCH younger than himself who quite obviously was a minor when they got together. 2) No Tim Hawkins?!? 3) No Jon Crist?!? 4) Jeff Allen is amazing and hilarious and also happens to have a heart-wrenching testimony, and his newer stuff is even better. He experienced a renaissance during COVID with a performance on Dry Bar Comedy and it is GREAT!
@@bigd5773 I wasn't aware of this, but upon research, it does sound like it wasn't a good situation, however, I will say it sounds less like SA, and more like he was dating in a secular/worldly way, not what would be considered a traditional Christian way. So more hypocrisy than anything. He was contrite, confessed, and apologized and sought help/counseling and has since moved on with his life. I feel like this is a bit different from Cook, who came out as a couple with his now-wife when she was 18 and he was 45. And that's just when they announced that they were a couple, not sure how long they had been "together" prior to that, and that is the most concerning part to me - that she may have been a minor. I don't care about the age gap on its own.
Oh thank God Jess is here to tell us what’s in a man’s heart! No one can do that but god I thought, but he must’ve just made an exception for JESS and DANE COOK. Please, stfu. Your arrogance isn’t piety. Pharisee-ass behavior.
I think the secret society of comedians won't allow Dane Cook to come back. He stole a lot of jokes and that's a big No-No for comedians and magicians come to think of it
Nate Bargatze, Dusty Slay, Aaron Weber, Brian Bates, John Crist, Tim Hawkins... none of these guys identify as Christian comedians. Just like I've never heard of a Christian plumber. They are comedians who work to make people laugh, who happen to be Christians.
Micheal please kerp your eye on Watauga County and Western North Carolina. there are Miracles Happening Here. We just got hit with the hurricane but God has also told me at the same time to drop every bit of corruption I have on this government here. Please pray for us and may the algorithms forever be in our favor
Shultz is so underrated. People love to hate on it but that's only because he's good. You'll never see them hating on ACTUAL crappy comedians like jet ski Johnson or casey rocket. It's almost like comedy social justice 🤮
Stand up comedy is 1 of my favorite things in the world and seeing you use that to reach more people about God makes me sooo immensely happy!😊 This is a video that could easily just pop up in the algorithm on autoplay and soften some hearts to God.❤
Nice I got love for my atheist neighbors, just no love for how militant and arrogant they can be. Same goes for anyone else, but such atheists* seem to have chosen that hill to die on lol. Christianity: peace and good will towards mankind Militant Atheists: Christianity is dumb. Normal ppl: i prefer option 1 to the bitterness of option 2.
I believe in Hell. Of course, i believe everything i am told by anyone i see as an authority or expert on something. Priests, TV anchors, professors, doctors...I have had 12 jabs. The last one, i got home and the needle was still in me! I poop clots every day and get sick all the time, but i am still here!
Fear is probably what makes people atheists because they're angry that God would be so cruel. If Jesus saved us, he saved us all. I wouldn't think that evil, sinful people would go to heaven, but moral atheists? I think they can maybe see the truth after they die and have a chance for redemption. I think God is merciful.
@@TaraTara-ld2xb As an atheist, I appreciate you saying that. I don't feel you should fear the people you love, and if you do, that this is not a healthy relationship, but a relationship of coercion and abuse. And I don't think that's a controversial opinion either, I think we all morally know this to be true. If God does exist, I hope He has a better moral framework than humans. I would hope that God would be merciful.
Had a debate with an atheist about the creation in college. How can someone think a random explosion would just happen to create a universe that has a properly rotating solar system that has a planet with just the right environment to create several different species of life including intelligent beings? It’s far more believable that an intelligent God did all that than a random explosion.
The big bang wasn't an explosion, it was expansion of spacetime. I don't know what caused it so don't ask. I'm not arguing about religion, just correcting you so🤷
That's what I'm telling every atheist I got into argument with. If we die and "there's no god", I said fine, I won't get punished or rewarded for the things I've done, I would just cease to exist. But what if GOD exists?? what would you do then? 60 to 80 or even a 100 years of sacrifice and obedience to God is a lot more easier than suffering in HELL for all eternity.
9:15. I heard a pastor recently say "Heaven isn't our reward for doing good, it's our inheritance for being His." It's so true and beautifully put
Do you agree that for a proposition to be true, it must comport with reality?
@@Theo_Skeptomai fedora alert
@@mike-cc3dd fedora alert?!?
It is actually both.
@@Theo_Skeptomai He was referencing the video
Norm was a punching bag to the elites and he took the blows and never spoke about how he was dying of cancer. RIP one of the best.
He died of cancer? When was this? I never even knew he was sick.
His story of Germany always makes me laugh
I didn’t even know he was sick
@@1R0QU012 😆 that line always gets me.
"Yes the President is a murderer! I thought this was common knowledge!" - Norm MacDonald on the view talking about Clinton when he was in office.
I can't believe y'all just left Tim Hawkins out of this, his bit about atheist summer camps is hilarious 😆
Nate Bargatze
Honestly, he's the best.
Agree!!!
Yes! That dude if absolutely one of the funniest!
"No one loves me this I know, for Charles Darwin told me so" 😂
Norm McDonald walked off Politically Incorrect because Bill Maher called God a Big Head in The Sky. Norm said: First you are stealing George Carlin’s material and I believe in one God the Father Almighty and God is not A Big Head in The Sky! Norm McDonald, never returned to Politically Incorrect.
May he R.I.P.
@@patriciafeehan7732
Glad to know that Norm stood up to him like that!
I hope some day I can listen to Norm without feeling like crying.
Atheists can’t admit there is an Almighty God. Because if they were to do so, they would prove their selves as wrong. And consequently liars.
If God is not a big head in the sky, then what is he?
Prove that God is real
That bit about the guy dying of vocal chord cancer reminded me of something.
You cannot convince me that God does not have a sense of humor. My favorite example of this is Voltaire. He claimed that a hundred years from him there would be no Bibles except in museums . . . then, sixty years after his death, his house was turned into a storage and distribution center for Bibles. There’s also the unfortunate incident of the *Titanic,* where one of the crew members boasted that God Himself couldn’t sink the ship. We all know how that went down.
Literally, it went down lol
Pun literally intended…😂
I'm a right wing atheist that believes in live and let live when it comes to what you believe. But I gotta say it's frustrating to hear the bs about Christopher Hitchens. He smoked like a chimney for decades. Why is it when a Christian dies of throat cancer from smoking it's not God who killed them, but if it's an atheist...oh yeah totally Gods vengeance. God doesn't need to take revenge, that's basically the premise of the New Testament. Who are you to attribute acts of cruelty to God? Why would you even want to? If you think God gave humans the freedom to choose. You should respect those that do honestly.
Funny to me that they changed their song from "Even GOD can't sink it" to "No MAN can raise it" after the tragedy.
was going to say something similar. Cancer is a bunch of rebellious cells. and surprisingly, a guy using his voice to rebel against God, would have Cancer in the place of his voice.
Aethists get really mad if you poke fun at their beliefs.....almost religiously defensive
😂😂 you obviously don’t know any atheists.
@@JackLaurie-Walsh yet here you are
Because atheism is a religion. A religion is a faith based belief that seeks to answer ultimate questions such as the origin and purpose of life. It takes a lot of faith to be an atheist
@Cherokee9898 True, though I would go further than that. While not explicitly a religion, many aethistic religions exist. Humans seek virtue and we contain the ability to reason. Through this, people find religion.
It's why many aethists you hear (especially online) typically fall into a political cult like socialism. Which, as the founders of socialism recognized, is a religion upon itself..
What beliefs specifically? Like believing in evolution? I'd love to hear some anti-evolution jokes! I know Ken Ham has a bunch of funny material!
Tim Hawkins is one of the best Christian comedians we have today. I loved it when he said, to those who deny the existence of GOD, . . "You have a computer in your head that's made of meat."
@@tebubba
A computer in your head. lol Best of All, each model is original, lasts a lifetime and for some reason can’t be reproduced.
@@patriciafeehan7732to be fair saying it can’t be reproduced is a lie. That’s like someone in 1760 thinking the mind can’t be reproduced -even with all their MIDERN TECHNOLOGY. you think just cause it’s 2024 we have reached the pinnacle of technology.
Smoke weed and vote for President Trump
@@ScotMayo420 the best argument against legalizing weed is the people who use it
@tebubba Yes!! I took my daughter to see him live on her 21st birthday. We also love Jon Crist, Mark Lowery, Darren Streblow and many others!!
6:16 Yoooo Jeff Allen is genuinely one of the funniest comedians ever. His testimony is beautiful too, he now preaches the Gospel at every one of his shows
I second this!
That must be Tim Allen's brother
One of my favorite comedians.
He’s soooo good. All his bits are gold, my personal favourite is the dry ice story
Agreed on both counts.
Jeff Allen....true Christian. Redeemed and humbled to his guts and is repentant to his core DAILY. GREAT comedian 🙏🙏
@@David_Watts 💯
I 100% believe Dane Cook Got Black Listed in Hollywood after that Joke about the Tree and the Atheist 🌳 However I’ve talked to Dane cook on tik tok live he is still very funny very much touring the country doing live shows. He is 50 and he is still doing awesome like he is my age 😂. Dane cook has always been Hilarious still is hilarious. Dont miss out
He is also one of the nicest people I’ve ever met celebrity wise
Just a kind man cracking jokes
It had nothing to do with the Bible tree joke. That bit was from vicious circle in 2006, he had multiple movies after that bit came out as well as a 2007 special he filmed in a sold out Madison Square Garden. The bit was featured on HBO and was constantly played on Comedy Central. He was stealing jokes, that’s why he fell off
His style is so distinct, even a stolen joke would be his own.
@@Selrisitaiyea that’s not how that works at all. That’s like stealing someone’s car and saying just because you put a unique paint job on it that it’s yours now
@@joeymadstoned Which jokes?
I had a roommate back in college that was atheist. He hated it when I would say bless you after he sneezed, always 3 massive sneezes like it was preprogrammed. So I started saying F**** Y** every time he sneezed, which made him just as upset... damned if I do damned if I don't
@@joehooper89
🤣🤣🤣 That’s hilarious! To be offended by an inoffensive, inherently positive thing is ridiculous, and you did a great job of ridiculing him.
LOL
Yeah this makes a lot of sense 🙄 u offended him and chose 2 offend him more and expected a different outcome
@@brandontalley4288one day when you become a man, you'll understand them
I have met a guy like that! It blew my mind. Dane Cook of all ppl had an awesome joke about that. Worth finding
Edit: I gotta stop reading comments before the video.😅
I can't believe Tim Hawkins wasn't on here 😂😢 but these were great (minus the one that literally took the Lord's name in vain)
Atheists kids songs is Great.
I can't believe they included someone who cursed our very own Creator. GD?? 😢
@@wodi28179 very true. I was taken back by that one
I agree. Blasphemy is one of the worst sins which gets swept under the rug too much
@@glennward2525 yessss
Chef's kiss for the tree-cutting end 🤣🤣
God fu©ked. 😁😂😂
I think Dane Cook became the Nickelback of comedians for some reason. I'm not sure why. I loved that special.
I did as well.
It was clearly pandering
Because he was stealing jokes
You’re aware that Nickelback is totally empty nothing music. Right?
Exactly like Dane’s comedy.
@@Peter-ff1tp well you're on the bandwagon. He made me laugh. That's just me. I'm not out here shutting down what makes you happy or laugh, am I? So just stop.
I'm an agnostic-atheist and I still love the DW and Michael Knowles, and I found these bits pretty funny 😅
Me too!
Same here!
Turning the tree into a Bible is pretty funny
The best anti atheist bit was that of Tim Hawkins. “I recently read about atheist mega churches and as a comedian my mind exploded. Where do you start with it? What do you do at an atheist mega church? Do you have coffee and donuts? What do you call it? The bitter cup?” Lol
You find that funny? Wow. That's sad.
@@timhallas4275 Let us guess, you're an atheist?
@@timhallas4275 Sounds like you drank a little too deep from that bitter cup, my friend.
@@Jito463😂good come back
@@00naenae You think that's a good comeback? Wow. That's sad.
May Jesus Christ bestow his glory and grace upon all of you. God bless. ✝️
Do you believe humans evolved from ameobas, then fish, and then monkeys? Or do you believe humans were created divinely, with God's magic?
@@CheerfullyCynical829Where do ameobas come from?
@@CheerfullyCynical829 we came from God the universe did not form because of an explosion from nowhere and life and consciousness did not come randomly from the ocean out of nowhere
@@CheerfullyCynical829 There is not a shred of evidence for macroevolution. Natural Selection, Time, and Chance seem to have all the magical powers of God, when you really think about. Natural Selection, Time, and Chance of the gaps.
God bless!
Rip, Norm, he’s making God laugh up in Heaven, as we speak
Jeff Allen is criminally underrated as a comedian. He is genuinely one of the funniest and wholesome comedians. He doesn’t rely on vulgarity or cursing. He has genuinely great bits. I’ve watched a lot of specials and even the best comedians will kind of have a lull moment somewhere in the middle or close to the end of their hour set, but Jeff’s “the America I grew up in” I was laughing start to finish. I actually had to pause it to rest my face cause it was tired from laughing so much
It's incredible how just one short conversation made Jeff Allen realize that he needed to actually look for the truth, and then he found Jesus.
What do you mean
Prove that God is real
@@PHXNKVHXLIC can you prove he's not ? 🤷♂️
@@PHXNKVHXLICit would be very easy to do miracles and show unbelievers but getting Church goers to do right today and listen to the God of the bible, be right and moral and do the things required such as grow in the spirit to perform miracles is a hard part today. It should at some point be clear to you the rest of the world is cursed and but some how a people do well and end up blessed. The bible says that if you will tithe be the devourer will be stopped but you often dont see the church do it but its pretty obvious generous people do well. The Bible claims many great things. Different to the books found elsewhere where they dont claim anything great and tell you to do whatever you want. Christianity could not exist if it could perform no miracles in the days it came into the world. You can find proof if you look. I would not however go to a God less church building or read a cult book that is not a real translation.
Being that God is absolutely good and we are in a world ran by the sons of men who are not absolutely good who have the current lease to rule the earth (for a short time until it ends) I would not expect your going to hear directly from God in any voice unless your born again. Though unless the Church remembers its supposed to go do real miracles it may be hard to convince anyone. The Churchs needs to be Christian again.
@@PHXNKVHXLIC Where does your intellect come from? Why do humans have consciences and all human cultures have standards of right and wrong unlike the animals? Why is the planet Earth so perfectly tuned for fostering life when no other planet, in all the planets we have discovered, is like that?
The Dane Cook one has always been my all time favourite. I’m glad it made it in, let alone being Michael’s favourite!
That whole special of his I have on DVD and is amazing! He's so funny idk why ppl don't like Dane Cook tbh
@christopher
They hate Dane cook because he's not an atheist.
Dude is a sexual predator. Guess it adds up.
Tim Hawkins next time!
Yes, Tim Hawkins!
"You print the bible on him" 😂 Nice punchline. I was like "Ok bro you dragging it too much"
9:50 is just hilarious!
Why were Mark Lowry and Tim Hawkins left off? 😢
Mark Lowry is hilarious! “Our preachers may not always be right! But they are NEVER in doubt!”
Because you touch yourself at night.
@@bethanymiller3838 yes! Mark pokes fun at every faith too and although it’s a serious topic he makes you laugh.
Maybe this series will be episodic? Maybe next time 😊
Because the editors hate you.
Jeff Allen is great, I've watched all his specials on drybar and he keeps me laughing the whole time
Forgot to mention John Crist, he's one of the best also
@@janellriggs4269 Jeff is my favorite!!
I'm saddened that Dane Cook had such a falling out in public opinion. Of course not every joke landed, especially in his later routines, but the guy was, for a time, the biggest act in comedy and could level an arena with side-splitting laughter. He also was a decent actor; I still enjoy "Employee of the Month." I thought he'd be destined to be a late night host but it wasn't meant to be. I'd love to see a comeback.
I’m an atheist and this is all very funny!
2:20 hahahahaha the attempt to go deep into the technicalities is so cool...I feel like that when someone tells me 'this is the fault of capitalism' hahahaha
Tim Hawkins atheist mega church songs is the best
I love that 😂😂😂
No one loves me this i know, for Charles Darwin told me so
@@josiahwestendorp9219 Lol.
that tree ending tho 💀
Haha I noticed that too! With the DW logo at the end.💀
Tim Hawkins has good atheist material. One of his jokes talks about an atheist hitting a home run in baseball and instead of pointing up to heaven while running the bases, he hits the ball and meanders around because it is meaningless.
Nothing loves the little children, all the little children of the world! No-one holds you when you fall, no one hears you when you cry!
☝🏻🤣🤣
@@FinnHolencik-g1fChristians "love" Children. 😁😂😂
The religious fool hits a man of another religion because his God told him to do it.
How could you have missed Tim Hawkins??!! TIM HAWKINS - only the funniest Christian comedian EVER!!!! Oh, Michael ...
Thanks for exposing me to him. South Park still wins in the who has made the best jokes about atheists. But that song routine was very quite clever.
I keep on hoping for someone to come up with a really solid joke about us that can get spread the way we can religious jokes. We want to laugh at ourselves too, and we demand equal representation XD
the lumberjack part at the end, damn glorious 🤣
If you're doing this again, Michael Junior would be a good christian comedian to use
Love him!! ❤
Yes! He’s amazing!
Yes more Michael Jr!!
Subtly quotes the Act of Contrition like it's your own wisdom. I'm onto you, Knowles
Explain please
@@oddinary_kayone of the traditional acts of contrition Catholics know involves saying you are sorry for your sins not only because of the “loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell” but also because they offend God “who is all good and deserving of all my love”
@@NateDulcimer oh. Thank you
I think your producers played fast and loose with the term "Christian" comedian...lol! Where were Mark Lowery, John Crist, Michael Jr, Tim Hawkins...?
I'd ad Henry Cho to that list!
Schulz is definitely not Christian
John Crist has gone a little downhill, but I do enjoy his work.
4:35 I love this Dane Cook bit 😂
I like and appreciate Michael Knowles interpretations of many clips -- there is a calmness plus general rationalization that cannot be easily argued. AND one massive point to Mr Knowles is his affection for people taking the micky out of him - he appears to appreciate it when done well -=- Live Long Mr Knowles
0:55 I couldn’t agree more Michael! Norm is the all time GOAT!!
Dave Chappelle is number 1.
@@echo.romeo. Fair enough, Dave is devastatingly funny but I don’t think he’s funnier than Norm was IMHO
Norm is a legend. One of the coolest things about him was that he was sick for so long and didn't want to make others sad so he gave fun interviews focused on comedy even while he was very ill. Hilarious and also a very respectable man.
@@matthewsisti4382 absolutely, it takes a lot of humility to keep a secret like that
Glad to see Brad Stine represented here.
6:00 - I never understood all the Dane hate. Is he the best comic? Certainly not. But he has some solid jokes, especially on his first 3 albums. And he revolutionized the comedian/fan relationship and was one of the pioneers to using social media to promote himself.
I agree with Michael, we need a Dane-ssance.
You know how it is, hating people becomes trendy and people love jumping on trains. Mob mentality, people love being a part of something. I’m with you, I enjoy some of his comedy
I think norm Macdonald is the greatest comedian of our time but I’m also not a narrow minded idiot so I also like other comedians who aren’t as good like Dane cook. It’s a character flaw I know, to see value in as many things as I can
@@MikeMarlowe-ym3zy norm is definitely one of the goats, but comedy is subjective.
Dane was partly responsible for getting into stand up comedy - I was a teenager when he did Harmful if Swallowed and Retaliation, so I was his prime demographic.
My tastes have changed since then and there are comics with far more longevity (Louis CK, Chapelle, Burr, etc), but Dane doesn't deserve all the hate he gets imo. He had his time and place.
The problem with Dane is he was stealing everyone’s jokes.
And when he stopped stealing, his jokes weren’t funny.
Was the B&E jokr stolen?
LOVE the tree falling at the end! your creative team deserves a raise 🤣
Michael casually throwing in the Best lines of the act of contrition. Nice
Make America Great Again 🇺🇸
Trump finished his one term with 1 cabinet member still in office, had 5 different National Security Advisers in 4 years and pardoned a list of his own hires for felonies before eventually becoming a convicted felon himself. Great choice to lead the country.
Dane Cook come back would be pretty cool. Not going to lie. My brother used to listen to him.
Fedora Atheist: "your are prepubescent ignoramus and my logic is superior, my logic wins" Puts on fedora and trench coat and leaves for burger king.
1:01 My favorite.
Comedy is the best kind of medicine ❤
💯
Idk, I still think medicine is the best medicine....
What medicines?
@@cizzorzsonandy9773 um the laughing kind? Lol
If you're a diabetic comedy is the 2nd best medicine after insulin.
Yes! You included my favorite comedian... I love Jeff Allen!!
And his testimony is really good.
Tim Hawkins is also a Christian comedian and hysterical!!!
So true. God definitely changed him and he’s funnier than ever.
Was surprised to hear Dane and Norm were Catholics. Just an absolute bonus! Love them both.
Norm wasn't Catholic
My only complaint about Dane Cook's style (at least at the time, I haven't kept up with him) is that he tended to stray off course throughout his bits. He'd still steer back to the focus EVENTUALLY, but not without some random bit about using a spray bottle or how to pronounce Gesundheit. The cut down bit in this video shows just how much fat they trimmed to maintain a cohesive story.
His logic WITHIN his comedy is awesome
No John Crist??
I know, it's criminal!
Has he done anything on atheists? His skit on Lazarus' resurrection is one of funniest I've ever heard.
He is a funny youtuber
I Believe in God, but Christianity is a Western Religion.
The bible is not God's word; it's a men's book.
@8:18 Brad Stine - the "Dennis Leary" of Christian Comedy! Love his work! And that outro! **chef's kiss**
You are correct sir - Norm was and remains the very best …!
His woman drivers joke in the Weekly Update (or whatever it was called) has lived in my head rent free for years. It's such a treat to get three punchlines for the price of one.
Loved you sneaking in a portion of an Act of Contrition in this video!! 9:08
I liked the Pete Holmes joke talking about the idea that nothing led to everything. It's hard to make fun of someone believing in God's existence if you believe nothing started everything because nothing definitely doesn't exist lol
Yet atheists don’t make that claim.
So it remains easy to poke fun at believers since their claims are based on ridiculous books and special feelings.
No wonder theism is fading.
It's not that I believe we came from nothing, rather it's just the fact that we don't really know. I don't know where we came from. But there were a lot of things we didn't know in the past that we know today, aren't there? Perhaps the future humans will learn about it, but not us. That's what I believe. You might say "Why don't you just believe the bible if you don't have anything to believe in" and my response is that instead of believing in something unprovable, I would rather believe that we will prove it, but not now.
@@matthewsisti4382 no one said everything came from nothing.
Yet another misunderstanding of reality by a theist…
Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
That sounds like mental illness
I've come across a lot of Brad Stine's stuff. He is basically a Christian Dennis Leary. Very funny and effective.
Agreed. He’s incredible and always funny!
I was ambivalent to christianity for a long time. I grew up in Sweden in the 1980s in a culture that had been completely molded by socialism. That molding certainly extended to our state church and still exists today. Many of our priests are straight-up communists and more interested in politics than religion. I became an atheist in the 1990s as an act of defiance against socialism. I've grown closer to God in recent years but there are few options for organized christianity in Sweden besides the state church.
That's sad to hear. Does Sweden have freedom of religion or is that the only church allowed?
Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Methodists, Lutherans, Orthodoxes, etc... ARE NOT CHRISTIANS.
"Organized Christianity" isn't socialism.
Start your own church like the disciples did. There are believers there.
Tim Hawkins, Jeff Allen, Ken Davis and one of the greatest Michael Jr!! All great Christian comics
Dane Cook stole jokes. That's why he left.
1) Dane Cook being "raised Catholic" does not mean he is a Christian. I don’t care what he was raised, I care what he believes. And his lifestyle choices for a very long time were not exactly God-fearing, and one of the reasons he fell out of favor is because he married someone MUCH younger than himself who quite obviously was a minor when they got together.
2) No Tim Hawkins?!?
3) No Jon Crist?!?
4) Jeff Allen is amazing and hilarious and also happens to have a heart-wrenching testimony, and his newer stuff is even better. He experienced a renaissance during COVID with a performance on Dry Bar Comedy and it is GREAT!
Didn't Crist fall out of favor also for some sort of scandal? SA maybe?
@@bigd5773 I wasn't aware of this, but upon research, it does sound like it wasn't a good situation, however, I will say it sounds less like SA, and more like he was dating in a secular/worldly way, not what would be considered a traditional Christian way. So more hypocrisy than anything. He was contrite, confessed, and apologized and sought help/counseling and has since moved on with his life. I feel like this is a bit different from Cook, who came out as a couple with his now-wife when she was 18 and he was 45. And that's just when they announced that they were a couple, not sure how long they had been "together" prior to that, and that is the most concerning part to me - that she may have been a minor. I don't care about the age gap on its own.
Oh thank God Jess is here to tell us what’s in a man’s heart! No one can do that but god I thought, but he must’ve just made an exception for JESS and DANE COOK. Please, stfu. Your arrogance isn’t piety. Pharisee-ass behavior.
A Catholic isn't a Christian.
Michael Knowles, for example, is a Catholic, not a Christian.
Who cares, He's a comedian his job is to entertain you
John Christ is also a funny Christian comedian!
Tim Hawkins should have been in here. The guy is so funny i am rolling, watching his routines!!!
I was close on Dane Cooks punch line, I was expecting him to say be used to build a church.
Tim Hawkins is the best!! Shoulda had a clip from him on this!
Tim Hawkins is my favorite. Bob Smiley is funny too!
@6:47, that’s hilarious!!
Gold!
All I know is we are gonna riot if you guys don't release a react video to this Tim Hawkins dude NEXT WEEK!!
Andrew is one of my favourite comedians ever!🤣His jokes are straight to the point
Brad Stine is hilarious!! His “Bible Handles” sketch cracks me up 😂
I think the secret society of comedians won't allow Dane Cook to come back. He stole a lot of jokes and that's a big No-No for comedians and magicians come to think of it
Come back? He’s currently on a theatre tour doing large venues
He told them better.
Love Jeff Allen!
Nate Bargatze, Dusty Slay, Aaron Weber, Brian Bates, John Crist, Tim Hawkins... none of these guys identify as Christian comedians. Just like I've never heard of a Christian plumber. They are comedians who work to make people laugh, who happen to be Christians.
Aaron Weber is really funny!!!
Johnny B!
Nate Bargatze is the funniest comedian I’ve ever seen!
dat Wii Sports in the intro
I was just thinking yesterday, "Whatever happened to Dane Cook?" Is my phone now reading my thoughts and suggesting videos??😅😅
Micheal please kerp your eye on Watauga County and Western North Carolina. there are Miracles Happening Here. We just got hit with the hurricane but God has also told me at the same time to drop every bit of corruption I have on this government here. Please pray for us and may the algorithms forever be in our favor
Comedian: "You mean you merge back with your creator? Yeah thats heaven"
Me: "no my brother in Christ, thats Pantheism"
That is also what is seen in the orthodox church. Since they claim man is essentially melded or merged into God as they become more like him
@@beardaquatics9163 I respectfully doubt it
Watch Jeff Allen's testimony. Oh, so powerful!!! ❤
Yes indeed!!
This compilation on your show might be just the right amount to hold an atheists attention and get them to listen. Good video to share
The fact Michael weaves in the Act of Contrition at the end is so chef's kiss
You need to try Tim Hawkins he is a Christian comedian and he is funny
You need to review Tim Hawkins.
9:47 Schulz was definitely the best one.
Shultz is so underrated. People love to hate on it but that's only because he's good. You'll never see them hating on ACTUAL crappy comedians like jet ski Johnson or casey rocket. It's almost like comedy social justice 🤮
6:15 You’re so right about Dane Cook. He’s frickin hilarious!
Stand up comedy is 1 of my favorite things in the world and seeing you use that to reach more people about God makes me sooo immensely happy!😊 This is a video that could easily just pop up in the algorithm on autoplay and soften some hearts to God.❤
I'm an atheist, but I still like this channel.
Nice I got love for my atheist neighbors, just no love for how militant and arrogant they can be. Same goes for anyone else, but such atheists* seem to have chosen that hill to die on lol.
Christianity: peace and good will towards mankind
Militant Atheists: Christianity is dumb.
Normal ppl: i prefer option 1 to the bitterness of option 2.
Same becuase he is not a zealot
How about a bleep over the blasphemy?
What?
How about making your faith stronger instead
Which part of the video do you want to censor?
Don’t be so soft, you’re sounding like a liberal wanting their pronouns to be correctly articulated
Completely agree.
I wanted to be saved out of fear in hell. I went and asked a Christian how to be saved and they showed me the love of God. Fear was not enough.
You've described stockholm syndrome.
I believe in Hell. Of course, i believe everything i am told by anyone i see as an authority or expert on something. Priests, TV anchors, professors, doctors...I have had 12 jabs. The last one, i got home and the needle was still in me! I poop clots every day and get sick all the time, but i am still here!
Fear is probably what makes people atheists because they're angry that God would be so cruel. If Jesus saved us, he saved us all.
I wouldn't think that evil, sinful people would go to heaven, but moral atheists? I think they can maybe see the truth after they die and have a chance for redemption. I think God is merciful.
@@TaraTara-ld2xb As an atheist, I appreciate you saying that. I don't feel you should fear the people you love, and if you do, that this is not a healthy relationship, but a relationship of coercion and abuse. And I don't think that's a controversial opinion either, I think we all morally know this to be true.
If God does exist, I hope He has a better moral framework than humans. I would hope that God would be merciful.
Fear of God is the BEGINNING of WISDOM, not the cause of salvation. I'm glad u understand that.
THANKS TO MICHAEL AND HIS PRODUCERS. GOD BLESS!
You gotta check out Tim Hawkins
His sense of humor is on point tho
Is Michael wearing an earring in the top of his ear? Did I miss something?
Could be the wire to an earpiece.
No! He wouldn't risk eternal damnation.
Pete Holmes stated the Prime Mover argument so hilariously.
Whatever list you have of religious comedians, none of them come close to George Carlin...
Had a debate with an atheist about the creation in college. How can someone think a random explosion would just happen to create a universe that has a properly rotating solar system that has a planet with just the right environment to create several different species of life including intelligent beings? It’s far more believable that an intelligent God did all that than a random explosion.
Wtaf that isn't a debate ya melt
Is it not likely that life forms evolved into their environment rather than the other way around?
@@mr.grumpyGod started life.
The big bang wasn't an explosion, it was expansion of spacetime. I don't know what caused it so don't ask. I'm not arguing about religion, just correcting you so🤷
@@Nonyeea What caused it?
That's what I'm telling every atheist I got into argument with. If we die and "there's no god", I said fine, I won't get punished or rewarded for the things I've done, I would just cease to exist. But what if GOD exists?? what would you do then? 60 to 80 or even a 100 years of sacrifice and obedience to God is a lot more easier than suffering in HELL for all eternity.
It's not a 50/50 proposition though. There are thousands of religions.What if you wasted your 80 years of existance groveling to the wrong God?
That's not how believing things works. We don't choose what we believe. We draw conclusions based on our upbringings and life experiences.