My mum was a nurse ... she didn't believe in hospitals. So, not a nurse then!

@ECL28E

5 жыл бұрын

I sighed so hard at that, I broke my xiphoid process

Ironically, the man in the video is holding a Cavendish banana -- which was engineered in 1836 by humans to be seedless. Without the seeds, banana trees can't reproduce and the plantations they grow on can only exist for about a quarter of a century before the ground gives out and the trees all die. The guy literally picked the one and only fruit that disproves his point entirely.

@Person01234

10 жыл бұрын

It actually proves evolution quite nicely too. It is a nice example of intelligent design, but unfortunately for rayy it's an example of intelligent design by humans and was achieved through the same gradual genetic changes over generations that he wants to deny.

@shawnstatzer95

3 жыл бұрын

Good point, only the banana plant is and herb and not a tree.

@ECL28E

3 жыл бұрын

Natural bananas are starchy and the seeds are as big as the pomegranate's; meant for the smelly primates we evolved from

5:23 "My mum was a nurse (very unconventional). She didn't believe in hospitals"... O_o Bad career move.

@2bobaf

10 жыл бұрын

Sort of like an ice cream man that doesn't believe in cream.

@leemartin5021

10 жыл бұрын

Anna LLoyd I have heard a Christian priest that didn't believe in Jesus, before.

@MrJoeyWheeler

9 жыл бұрын

Anna Quillfeldt Those actually exist. Usually in the form of priests who have lost their faith but aren't immediately able to quit their jobs. I think there's actually a charity for that.

@armidas200

9 жыл бұрын

Damian Freeman Watch "The Bishop's Gambit" on youtube. It's an episode of Yes Prime Minister. You'll love it.

@adrammelech6323

3 жыл бұрын

@@leemartin5021basically a rabbi

"Look how this school bus fits perfectly down the ravine." Bahaha

Best part is the Banana is only the way it is by selective breeding, human activity to remove the seeds (which did make up 50% of the banana weight) and make it longer and easier to peel. So yes, it is the product of intelligent design. By humans.

@nejtilsvampe

10 жыл бұрын

And how the fuck do they explain the coconut?

@stefanmuc2k

10 жыл бұрын

nejtilsvampe God does not want us to eat coconuts, that's why he gave them such a hard shell. Eating coconuts is blasphemous. We are only allowed food which has groves and fits perfectly into our hands. So bananas basically. Maybe carrots and sausages too. As long as it's more or less penis-shaped it's ok, I guess.

@micmac274

10 жыл бұрын

stefanmuc2k what about clams and oysters and other things that you can fit up to 3 fingers into, usually?

@straubdavid9

10 жыл бұрын

nejtilsvampe Wasn't aware that coconuts needed explaining? LOL! Maybe Ray Discomfort can address the coconut too - since he did such a marvelous job on the banana. Can't wait to hear his vast wisdom on the watermelon.

"My mum was a nurse and didn't believe in hospitals" & "Look how this school bus fits perfectly down the ravine" were highlights for me.

We need more TV like this. Mocking religion is the best way to put it into context.

"My mom was a very unconventional nurse, she didn't believe in hospitals."

I love how angry David Mitchell gets and then, at the end "plumbing angel", he gets a big, shit-eating grin on his face. I love that man.

I reckon this is one of the few British shows that Americans are not looking forward to remake. Lol!

@David-wj3tg

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure they could make a unfunny and self-centered version of this. It is their way

Oh america, what a silly goose you are.

I awoke to a mysterious figure at the end of my bed once, but uncle Jimmy says to keep it a secret.

@ramirocastro6458

10 жыл бұрын

Good gut laugh out of this one.

@SemanticV0id

10 жыл бұрын

Hahaha oh...wait.

@BillieJolene1

10 жыл бұрын

LOL!!! To funny. Was he a priest? (joking)

almost killed myself laughing with "Look how this school bus fits perfectly down the ravine" and "Invention of the green screen?"

THIS is why I'm proud to call myself a Briton! :D

@alexhatz3389

10 жыл бұрын

Kevin Russell Can't thumb you up so +1 :( No offense to the brits, I like you guys, but it's true.

Priceless! We need more ridicule of religion.

@JammyDuel

10 жыл бұрын

It isn't at all difficult, so many religious debates out there, which if you skip the religious person talking is fairly heavily ridiculing religion. Then again skipping it is boring, can't get a good laugh and a weak argument that way.

@Estragon17

10 жыл бұрын

softan No, apparently they haven't. Thus Iraq, Afghanistan, clinic bombings, the killing of gays, etc.. etc.. etc...

Took a break from doing uni work and a friend links me this, OH MY FUCKING WHAT Bibleman is the most hilarious thing I've ever seen.

If you've been touched by an angel...call the police.

@micmac274

10 жыл бұрын

Doctor who is doing its utmost to make people scared of angels.

Dawkins flinging fossils at Christians LMAO!!!

@dannyeleternity7390

2 жыл бұрын

I want to see Bibleman fight Richard Dawkins as Atheist Man so much

Where did the angel touch you? Show me on the dolly...

2014. It's hard to believe that there are people who still believe in stories, that were made up by some cavemen more than two thousands years ago. Terrifying and depressing

@MDOY79

10 жыл бұрын

Its terrifying so many are willing to kill for such beliefs..

@voidabstraction

4 жыл бұрын

And this comment was a pre-Trump election world haha.

@TehSeksyManz

3 жыл бұрын

Fast forward 7 years....

KING OF THE SEAGULLS

At 5:20 My mum was a nurse, but a very unconventional. And she didn't believe in hospitals. Oh dear...

@Oners82

10 жыл бұрын

My father was a pilot, but very unconventional. He didn't believe in aeroplanes. Oh dear...

@superbloke76

10 жыл бұрын

My mother was a devout Christian, but very unconventional. She didn't believe in Jesus. Oh dear....hold on, that's the American Tea Party.

@bensoffgruppen

9 жыл бұрын

My mother was my father, but very unconventional. He didn't believe in me. Oh dear...

"My mum was a nurse but she didn't believe in hospitals!" what kind of nurse is that?

@mikelheron20

10 жыл бұрын

I worked in the Health Service for almost 40 years and have met both nurses and doctors who don't believe in hospitals. It's called "cognitive dissonance". Put in simple terms it means a willingness to set aside one's principles to earn a living. I also knew a Jehovah's Witness who was in charge of a blood bank.

@sheikhyaboooty

10 жыл бұрын

Probably a similar kind of airline pilot as my uncle Trevor. He didn`t believe in aircraft and was sadly flattened by a 747 landing at Heathrow while he was running along the runway waving his arms.

@finehomemadewine

10 жыл бұрын

To be fair anyone who worked in state health care would have to stop believe in hospitals.... Lot of nurses work in and propagate more use of home care, just saying for balance in discussion :-)

@whiterabbit75

10 жыл бұрын

The bad kind. The thing about not believing in hospitals, is that they're there whether or not you believe in them, and there is demonstrable evidence of their existence. You can see them, you can hear the normal hospital-type sounds when you enter them, you can touch them, you can smell them, you can even taste them if you're so inclined, but none of that can be done for their god (or any god for that matter). And they say *we're* the crazy ones.

@WombatProphecy

10 жыл бұрын

GuitarMasterGraeme In fairness, a lot of religious people do practice science and (because they aren't stupid) accept its theories. Most of the religious people I've encountered who disbelieve in science have a tendency to be from the kind of cultural background that fears that science goes against religion. This belief is damaging to both scientists and religious people (though they are by no means incompatible, I am referring to those of both groups who do not overlap when I say this) - scientific people start to dismiss religious people and, by extension, all religion as being superstitious and ignorant (certainly false, unless you wish to condemn - for the sake of an example - the head of the Human Genome Project as a man ignorant of science and reason), while certain religious people deny the truths reached by logic and reason (which, from a religious perspective, were tools given to us by God) purely because they worry that it might cause doubts (which from their perspective at least ought to be obvious falsehood - truth cannot disprove truth). I for one am a Christian who completely accepts evolution (among other scientific theories) as true, because that is where the evidence takes me.

A "wonderful shine on his face and I could see through him"?Sounds more like David Cameron than an angel to me!

Her mother didn't believe in hospitals?

That was absolutely brilliant!

I totally believe that God is proved through the banana, perfect for the human hand. However I'm anti-God because the pineapple is a bloody pain in the arse.

@nextlevelguydotcom

9 жыл бұрын

You're peeling it wrong lol

@jettec9411

2 жыл бұрын

Coconuts

I like the villian saying "stop with the bible spouting"

I love this. But it's a shame no one mentioned that we specifically bred bananas to grow like that. The original form of the banana is a short, thick, bitter fruit full of seeds.

Just going to say this now: There would be nationwide outrage if this aired in America. xD

@ArgoInfoBroker

10 жыл бұрын

Maybe I'm basing it on all the Fox news fails I've seen on youtube but I just imagine this episode getting a really bad reputation. Actually yeah... This is probably due to Fox news that I imagine there would be ridiculous OTT reactions.

@TangyMeringue

10 жыл бұрын

***** To be fair wasn't there national outrage when some women who's house got hit by a Tornado said she was an atheist?

@Spiderpope

10 жыл бұрын

TangyMeringue Yup and then there was outrage when comedian Doug Stanhope organized a fundraising campaign on her behalf and generated $120k, solely because he wanted to piss off the god botherers.

@BenjaminGoose

10 жыл бұрын

I don't think there's any misconception here: Americans are the most fervently religious of the West.

@zingzangspillip1

10 жыл бұрын

***** A British politician recently said that the floods they've experienced in England were caused by the legalisation of gay marriage.

I could not hold back the laughter at that Bibleman thing. It's so stupid...*laughs*. Also, isn't making idols like...a sin or something? Eh, why am I expecting consistency. Although you must admit there is something frickin' hilarious to the idea of a superhero whose actions make him resemble a villainous cult >_

@mindsprawl

9 жыл бұрын

Damian Freeman Exactly, you expected consistency.

I grew up in a really religious household and the only Bible-based show I ever watched was Veggie Tales.

This is a funny religion moment from the British TV panel show "You Have Been Watching" on Channel Four (United Kingdom).

Just thought I'd share this, but humans are the ones that designed the banana as we know it. Wild bananas in the past were full of poisonous hard seeds and basically inedible, it wasn't until humans began to cultivate them asexually to produce clone plants with seedless fruit that we were able to have the bananas we know today.

@MissingSirius

10 жыл бұрын

Yes! I was about to say just this. I was waiting for one of the panelists to address that.

The arrogance of these angel believers really pisses me off, they think that they're so special or important that an angel or god would personally save THEM from death or disaster yet let thousands of others die horribly every day?! Makes me sick.

What if there actually Was a person in her room, a well-meaning relative snuck in and gave her some medication, knowing that her mother wasn't treating her with anything, and it actually helped.

10:00 Gotta love those points at the top for ease of entry!

George Lucas should totally sue their asses. And Dawkins should be like a supervillain, Bibleman's arch enemy. I'd watch that :P

The Bibleman thing cracked me up. Is this for real? I think the most disturbing thing about the angel programme is the fact that it is advocating unproven faith 'healing' methods and the idea that those are more useful against illness than actual medical science.

This is why I fucking love the U.K.

@G96Saber

10 жыл бұрын

I love my country. :)

We're forgetting the other option; it could be imagination or visitation OR seeing Jimmy Saville after he flicked the light on.

The Bible man proves that if school is too hard, turn to religion.

One of the things I love most about David Mitchell is that he can state his point of view without feeling the need to be offensive about it. He stated what was unfair about the "Angel" program and what was wrong with the "banana argument" without resorting to the "all christians are f***ing retarded!" argument. I know David doesn't identify as an atheist but it's still comforting as a Christian to know that not all non-believers have to resort to being disrespectful and insulting. Dawkins really could take a lesson from Mitchell.

@Gobtik

3 жыл бұрын

Dawkins doesn't say all Christians are retarded, he just destroys the faith with facts. Mitchell is an atheist though he's wrong on this, there are several types of angels in the bible. The problem with this is that the depiction of an angel as a man is gibberish, they are literally described in the bible: Seraphim is a 6 winged monster with hands; Cherubum is a multiple faced abomination e.g. man, ox, lion and eagle with a semi-human form but with calve's feet, 4 hands and wings; Ophanim is a wheel with rims and spokes, eyes all the way around the edge etc. That little girl, if she saw an angel, she would have shit herself.

I had a very religious moment once in my teens, Sadly I wasn't visited by an angel, it was by a demon... I figured it was a wake up call from God, that I needed to stop being so sinful and change my life. So I did, or well I tried, if nothing else I went to church more. Years later I learned about sleep paralysis, revisited my memory of the demonic visitation... wouldn't you know it was a perfect match. Moments before my visitation I had a very lucid dream which often precedes sleep paralysis, in the visit I was unable to move, same as sleep paralysis. So from personal experience I've seen just how easily the mind can accept a supernatural explanation for a natural occurrence we don't understand.

''she didn't believe in hospitals''.lmao

@SueMead

9 жыл бұрын

"she was a nurse.., but a bit unconventional. She didn't believe in hospitals". No, she just thought it better for her sickly (but decidedly robust looking daughter re: the photo of the kid in her swimming togs), would be better off getting so dangerously ill that she hallucinated. She's damned lucky the kid didn't get febrile convulsions. Oh wait. She probably did on account of her hallucinating a creepy white guy touching her pre-pubescent breast area in the middle of the night.

5:23 hahaha, "my mum was a nurse, but very unconventional, she didn't believe in hospitals" laughed my ass of there :P

This is gold

Lol....."look how this school bus fits down the ravine" That is gold in this context.

haha in all his power and wisdom an angel came to help 1 middle class white kid with anaemia, while ignoring all the ones who cant get a decent meal or go home without being hit.

Look how this school bus fits perfectly down the ravine!

I reckon the Crimson Bolt and Boltie would've sorted Bibleman out.

the day i gave up on god was when i asked my religious teacher if being an honest good human and doing good to everyone was enough to go to heaven without praying to him...and he replied NO !! if you do good but forget to pray you will go to hell... I then told him What type of a person is so arrogant that we have to pray to him and please him and just being a good person is not enough !!!

Search for "songs of praise with subtitles." for some very ... odd subtitles. also, I get "The Way of The Master" in my TV package. I thought it was a show about Buddhism with a title like that.

"My mum was a nurse... Who didn't believe in hospitals..." Erm... Sorry, speechless!

I found a Bibleman board game in a thrift shop about 6 months ago. I took it home for $0.50. To win the game you have to fight the baddies, "save" 6 children, and drop the kids off at church! It's hilarious. Pretty easy to reverse the game and pay for the bad guys, just drop the kids off at the docks.

“My mom was a nurse, she didn’t believe in hospitals” wtf????

look how this school bus fits perfectly down the ravine.

The Pineapple is the work of The Devil!

@walterwhite7092

10 жыл бұрын

Yup... that one does not get peeled and does not go in the mouth ...

@andygriff1987

10 жыл бұрын

Walter White You're just not trying hard enough.

@knap-dalf2215

10 жыл бұрын

Oh God...the coconut! :O Possibly the AntiChrist?

is that the Superman The Movie theme when they did the Bibleman bit?

I demand shows like this in the US!

@centrey5827

9 жыл бұрын

Stephanie Cholensky US remakes of UK programs have never gone well tho. Except maybe the office.

@-boss4439

9 жыл бұрын

***** The apprentice, big brother, shameless, Britans got talent, just of the top of head....

@centrey5827

9 жыл бұрын

- Boss The Inbetweeners US was an absolute train wreck.

@jb888888888

Жыл бұрын

@@centrey5827 _All in the Family_ _Three's Company_ and _Sanford and Son_ were US remakes of _Til Death Us Do Part_ _Man About the House_ and _Steptoe and Son_ respectively.

:D Now I have trouble deciding which would win in a contest of silliness, the Bible Man or the Banana Man. If either of them had been introduced as atheist satire of Christianity, they'd have been judged as too over the top.

Bibleman Live? A production filled with song, dance, and spandex superhero costumes? What actors could they hire to star in that production? Hmmmmmm

Charlie Brooker and David Mitchell on religion? Owch!

"Imagination or visitation?" Or possibly Jimmy Saville. Yeah, I went there!

This video has bits edited out. Link to full version?

"NEARLY GOT YOU!"

A lot of ants didn't believe in magnifying glasses until one day .....

Bibleman would be legitimately scarey to encounter in real life. That's a show where the villain is the main character.

I am atheist, but the Bible does list the different roles given to sects of Angels within the heavenly host

Josh Carpenter... had to watch twice to see that

I remember these form when I was a kid, Psalty, the giant hymnal: Psalty's Songs for Little Praisers

British telly, I love you.

Did no one suggest DNA-testing that feather?

My mother was a nurse, only she didn't believe in hospitals! Comedy gold.

And there are actually STILL people that take religion seriously. Go figure...

Where did he get that lightsaber??

Where's the bit in EVEN THE BIBLE

Nice of them to gloss over the fact that that very pixelated Kirk there is Kirk Cameron from Growing Pains...

2:49 I think a kick starter is in order.

Fun fact - modern bananas (Cavendish bananas) are cultivars, cultivated to their sweet yellow perfection by scientists...

5:30 Your mom was a nurse you didn't believe in hospitals, lol! No wonder you were coughing up blood as a child

I believe at one point they made mention to a "discussion program" which was "paying lip service" to aspects of religion (namely angels) via their biased approach to said discussion; this being stated on a game show which involved four atheists.

@DemonofChaos264

8 жыл бұрын

+Idi nearly nobody believes in religion in the UK anymore. Part of why we have so many people trying to move here. Bangladesh executes atheists and look at how many of them are fleeing to Europe and India.

@JCisKing1337

8 жыл бұрын

DemonofChaos264 Here are a few sources of varying accuracy which demonstrate that although atheism is on the rise in the UK, it is only believed by roughly a quarter of Britons... not the majority. d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/2l6avzlerp/Religion.pdf paceyhuckabys6thgradeproject.blogspot.com.au/p/religion.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_Kingdom humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/BHA-Census-Results-2011.jpg www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/rpt-religion.html

bibleman.... dafuq america

@freedomwv

10 жыл бұрын

Bibleman is a prime example of exactly why I don` t live in the nation of my birth.

@BillieJolene1

10 жыл бұрын

Jon Doe Don't blame you.

@BillieJolene1

10 жыл бұрын

LOL We have politicians who are just as loopy. They're called the Tea Party and yes, bible belt 'Murcia thinks they're great.

angel jimmy savile

10:30 I was sitting here going: "Take a bite, take a bite, so many penis jokes, take a bite! Awww... he didn't take a bite..."

This made me cry with laughter. Religious people are so funny.

Dawkins said it best when he pointed out that the creationist arguments are largely akin to a puddle of water, thinking, "I fit in this hole so perfectly! This universe MUST have been meticulously & intelligently designed."

@kellydalstok8900

2 жыл бұрын

That was Douglas Adams actually

He's like... Nailed it... Banana :P

Most people have monsters under their bed. Bibleman had a bible under his bed. So yeah he also had a monster.

God bless us all !!!!!!!!!!

Try that banana argument with an orange. They're a right bastard to peel.

dat last joke tho

Child realises the fake coughing to get out of school was getting out of hand and comes up with cunning cover story.

Utterly hilarious - I had no idea of the existence of Bibleman before now. And I agree - why can't all bishops dress like that?

My sink is backed up, I could use a plumbing angel right about now! I'm going to call a plumber and then I will start praying really hard. If a plumbing angel gets to my house and unclogs my sink before the human plumber I called then I think we have a air tight argument for the existence of god and angels. Fingers crossed, here it goes.

Wow. The making "bananas a religious thing" thing is very weird and disturbing. These people are crazy.

I completely agree with David's comments about the Bibleman's production quality. a lot of North-American based Evangelical broadcasts are a kin to a taping of your children's school play. The production quality is limited to cutting to different cameras with precise angles on their subjects. The special effects and costumes are circa late 70s-mid 80s Canadian local programming or high-budget PBS specials. it's an absolute joke! for organizations that clear millions of dollars annually, they love to really believe they drive home the point that they are actually "not for profit", but that's horseshit. I'm pretty sure John Hagee doesn't show up on television every week in a department store suit and WalMart shoes.

Odd that Bibleman didn't throw out Austin 3:16 which states; "I just kicked your ass."

Why is the word "thing" was cut out at 2:10?

@MrJoeyWheeler

9 жыл бұрын

***** probably a video glitch in the recording. It doesn't seem to actually have been "cut".

lol loved it