Jun 11 2008'Religulous' Trailer Preaches to Some Sort of Non-Religious Choir

Ben Stein tried it and it stank.
Somehow that format doesn't work well for conservatives.

Good for Bill. It looks like a real hit.

It's a shame that the people writing for this site aren't as smart and funny as Bill Maher.

I don't trust any comedian that gets more applause than laughs.

I don't know I think this site is funnier than Bill Maher and the author clearly is more smart.

One self-righteous asshole is not going to convice other self-righteous assholes of anything, especially when he's doing it by being an unpleasant, confrontational self-righteous asshole.
If there's one up-his-own-ass twat I can't stand, it's Bill Maher. I'd rather watch a day's worth of Bill O'Reilly, Michael Moore, and Ann Coulter screaming at each other about gay latino abortions than see Bill Maher preaching to everyone about how smart he is and how dumb you are.

It would be easy to feel queasy because of Maher's anti-religious obnoxiousness...but I've seen his shows, both the cancelled "Politically Incorrect" and the ratings-deficient "Real Time," and I can confidently despise him for being the preening, condescending humorless prick who stacks his shows, panders to a retarded audience and whines like a bitch every time he cancelled, which in Maher's view is "censorship." An ugly little pimp.

Man, whether you agree with his view or not, I just feel like taking a shower after watching the preview for 2 minutes...I couldn't imagine 90 minutes of watching that. He just seems like he lathers himself in crisco every morning and then flops around on his plastic covered couch.

oh boy, can't just leave well enough alone. let people believe what they want to believe, period.... and that goes for people that believe nothing too. Co-Exist jackass.

Yeah...just like those Christians and Jews and Muslims always keep to themselves. You're right. Everyone should just mind their own business.

Uh...HELLO? When people bring up bullshit ideas and parade them around as the truth I, for one, enjoy it when others start mocking them publicly.

And "anti-religious obnoxiousness"? I'm not sure it's possible for someone who isn't religious to be more obnoxious than religious people. I can't remember the last time Bill Maher told me I was going to burn in a fiery pit for jerking off in the privacy of my own home. But the religious people? They have no end of things to say about my lifestyle and how inferior it is in relation to their own. No.....that's not obnoxious at all.

SCIENCE BE PRAISED! RELIGION WILL SOON BE AT AN END!

Cue the atheist circle jerk! "Aww yeah, we're so right about everythin'. Now but your other hand in my butt."

Oh, AND, he tried to release it on easter weekend (which anyone can agree is just a total act of doucebaggery). But it got pushed back twice to October! Suck it!

I dunno. I think it looked really entertaining and kind of interesting.

I have no problem with Maher. He's an intelligent guy that says what he wants and refuses to dumb his shows down. People like him cause ignorant people to get self-conscious and lash out at them for being arrogant or out of touch or boring or something. People dont like to feel stupid. But most are. So intelligent people are adamantly rebuked by America

I am looking forward to this film! Durka Lurka Jihad!

@ 9
A self-important dick who thinks he knows all the answers that goes by any other name is still a self-important dick. If you're really "not sure it's possible for someone who isn't religious to be more obnoxious than religious people," I find it hard to believe that you've ever seen Bill Maher smirk his way through an hour of the pompous "Why don't you believe what I believe? I'm so smart, so you must be retarded and not worth my time!" bullshit he slaps together and calls a show.
His only fans are other sanctimonious, self-satisfied fucks who get pleasure from knowing that somewhere out there, there's someone just as smug and all-knowing as they are-- and he makes money at it, so their mission must be righteous! I can't believe he tries to pass off his asshole behavior as comedy, but, then again, I can't believe he has a career at all.

Ah, the "believers"...who don't understand the difference between fairy tales and knowledge. It's useless to bombard them with facts since their reality doesn't require any... If one person suffers from a delusion, it's called insanity. If many people suffer from a delusion, it's called religion.

to the original author of this post..
so interviewing people honestly 1 on 1 is ripping off jay leno sketches? wow that is both short sighted and stupid, good job. let the man say what he wants to. im not going to even begin to discuss religion with the fellow folks in this comment section but obviously if you hate that this one man is asking questions you are playing directly into his stuff. this film seems to be an examination (whether or not its an honest one) of how people see stuff. those dumb enough to hate it are the ones who he is pointing out as slaves to this continued retardation. good job to the god squad who think blog responses will constrict free speech. this country may be run by a bible toting bastard, but it doesnt mean we all buy in blindly.

wow that last dude made sense. i dont usually see that round here

As the religious nut running this country (thank you, #17, for outing me), I'm just glad that Bill Maher isn't on our side. Frankly, even the most obnoxious religious freaks couldn't reach the toxic levels of douchebaggery as Bill Maher.

"this film seems to be an examination (whether or not its an honest one) of how people see stuff."

I fail to see how a dishonest and fundamentally skewed examination of anything can provide people with any insight into the subject's culture or world. If anything, it merely shows the investigator's own personal biases and inability to accept or understand why people believe or behave in a certain way. This has been the chief crime of American Christianity of the last 50 years (well, that and promoting racism); and I'm glad to see that Bill Maher is willing to prove it's not because people are Christians, but because people are people.

Nice point #20. I to would love to see how much editing went into taking out every reasonable Christian's interviews to make it appear as though every single person interviewed was simply a trailor park tard, or an insane born again speaking in tongues off kilter zealot. I am no church goer myself, but it so happens that I think Christians in general happen to be some of the most charitable and giving, caring and considerate people in America. For the most part, that is how they are taught to be. Obviously there are some bad seeds, just as there are in any cross section of society.
If you don't believe in hell, why would you care if someone says you are going to burn there (@9).
@13, that was one of the more ridiculous things I have ever read. He is intelligent, therefore he is right, therefore he makes dumb people feel bad, therefore his shows get cancelled because dumb people of the world unite and rebuke him. Problem is there will be plenty of other intelligent people that will seriously beg to differ with your starting premeise (that Maher is in fact intelligent). I for one don't trust anyone who is A) a libertarian B) looks like they don't take showers more than once a week tops.

Nuke gay whales for Jesus.

Alright, Bill, I agree with you: religion is dumb. To quote C-Lo, I believe man made God out of ignorance of fear.

But why make a movie in which you go around mocking people? It's not a great/interesting idea.

"If there's one up-his-own-ass twat I can't stand, it's Bill Maher."

As a Christian I can't really say things like the above quote, so I'm glad someone else did it for me.

I happen to catch that clip of his show where some guy got tossed from the audience. It was amusing when Bill (with 20 security people in front of him) threatened to kick the guy's ass. It was like one of those let me go/hold me back moments.

Thank you #21. To be fair, Bill Maher isn't going out for just Christians, but all religious folks as well (I wonder if he went after ascetic jews as well?). Notice the gay fundamentalist muslims in the trailer? Essentially, Bill Maher thinks anyone who believes in God and allows that belief to hold sway on their life (is 80% of the world's population a good estimate on that?) are ridiculous and foolish.

BM is just that.

a BM.

Oh come on people. None of you HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE. Are you really going to pretend to understand it's scope, how its edited, its point, from a frickin' trailer?

@27

"Oh come on people. None of you HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE. Are you really going to pretend to understand it's scope, how its edited, its point, from a frickin' trailer?"

Answer: Yes.

Those of us in the film industry, as well as any semi-intelligent moviegoer, knows that a trailer is intended to summarize the content, style, and theme of the film itself, in order to draw interested viewers into the marketing maelstrom.

The odds are good that the film will be like the trailer: extreme points of view, self-righteous ego-stroking. In other words, exactly like 6th grade.

the world is tough enough as it is...

honestly ... does bill maher and do we all really believe that this movie is going to help his cause? ... does he really think that religeous people are suddenly going to realize how stupid they are and have always being??

the guy is doing this to make the almighty dollar ... but then again if he really thinks that this is the best way to "help" religeous folk realize their folly, then i guess he really is not as intelligent as he thinks he is

and this goes to both the bill maher types trying to "help" the religeously stupid and the religeous types trying to "save" the bill maher types