I'm reading it for a third time now and trying to see whats so funny about it?

Unless ignorance and making up random stuff is now the litmus for humour.

edit: I mean the whole article seems to be based off of one quote which the author was not able to understand, yet makes perfect sense to anybody with a brain.

Note to self: @Daganev.senseofhumour==0

Although the amount of british pop culture references might have clouded things a bit for anyone else >.>

I have a very nice sense of humor, however I tend to like my humour require some semblance of thought behind it.

Good stuff.

A high-level leak has revealed that God is "furious" at Stephen Hawkings attempts to implicate him in playing Craps. Sources close to the archangel Gabriel report him as describing the Almighty as "hopping mad ... with sanctimonious yet unscrupulous politicians claiming He would condone their bestial activities when He has no way of going public Himself, owing to the MMW agreement" (a reference to the long-established Moving in Mysterious Ways concordat).


Stephen Hawking went public about God on Michael Parkinson's TV show. "Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen." As is customary with Mr Hawkings's statements, it's rather hard to tease out what he is actually saying; but the gist is clearly that if God didn't actually tell him to play craps, then the Almighty would certainly agree it was the right thing to do.

"If Stephen Hawking thinks his friendship with Einstein is worth redefincing creation with six sided pieces of ivory, then that's something he can talk over with me later," said God. "But when he starts publicly claiming that's the way I do the arithmetic too, it's time I put my foot down!" It is well known that God has a very big foot.

A source says Gabriel has spent days trying to dissuade the Almighty from loosing a plague of toads upon the Hawking family. Gabriel reminded God that Hawking's wife and the children had nothing to do with Tony's decisions. God's response, it is reliably reported, was: "Hawkings says the the universe is random, so how can he complain if his family gets a few toads in the bath?"

The archangel is said to be ticked off with God's ability to provide glib answers without even thinking.

What has particularly incensed the Almighty is that Mr Blair made the claim on the Parkinson show. "If he'd done it on Richard and Judy I could have forgiven a lot," He is reported to have said.

The archangel reported that the Almighty has become increasingly irritated with the vogue for scientists to claim that He isn't behind all forms of gambling- especially if these involve Vegas and the moving of stars. According to Gabriel, God spake these words: "That Ford once had the nerve to say: 'God plays dice with the universe but they're loaded dice" Well, let me tell you I did no such thing! If I'd wanted to create the world using dice, I certainly would cheat with loaded dice, and I most certainly would not let anyone know about it!"

"How do Hawking and Ford think it makes me look to all those parents who have lost sons and daughters to gambling problems?"

The archangel further revealed that he had been advised by no less a person than Albert Einstein to warn God to keep out of science. "But it's hard to get God to do anything He doesn't want to," sighed the archangel. "It's all to do with what He calls 'free will', though a lot of us have a problem working that one out, since He's omnipotent and omniscient."

God, the archangel says, is also disturbed by Mr Hawkings remark that while religious beliefs might colour his science, "it's best not to take it into acount."

"How would he like it if I went round claiming that he gave me his full backing when I sent the tsunami last year?"

It was moderately funny, but he's a Python, so he's automatically funny.

Its british humor daganev, its not ment to be funny to outsiders

Yeah, not sure how many people will get that Alastair Campbell thing...

British humour is famous for being an aquired taste

But this story is actually funny even for non british

Oh crap, we have a GUARDIAN READER ON OUR HANDS.

Screw you, hippy.

Head office of THE GUARDIAN:

Oh, so you're one of them, then?

It's the Spectator for me.

Amaru is the one with the guitar I think.
Just look at his smile.

Nah, Amaru's the wannabe off shot that no-one likes

PS- Guardian ftw you noob

Arr. No Warbreeds for you, arr!

*cancels saving Warbreeds disc as .bin file to send to Manja*

I'm a HUGE fan of monty python, I have all thier tapes.. I LOVE black adder, and will once in a while even stop watching something else if Faulty Towers comes on some public access channel...

However, that article was really NOT funny. For all the same reasons why film students are not allowed to make murder scenes for thier short videos.

Its got about the same level of humour as your average fart joke, or Ball in groin film clip.

You can take any person, any topic, and replace it with Blair and the article reads the exact same way.. Its like a Madlib article.

Nah, it's the little things, like the alistair campbell comment, and the richard and judy references that make you wrong, Dag. But then you don't get richard and judy across the pond, so it's lost on you. Poor guy.