I was up in the middle of the night, and happened to catch this on the Comedy Network. My favorite part was:

It doesn't matter if you're religious or not. Does anything make you feel more uncomfortable than some stranger going, "I'd like to talk to you about Jesus"?

I also enjoyed his observations on holidays.



It made me think of the time I went to the Jewish Folkfest pavillion, and asked the volunteer there why Christmas and Hanukkah are celebrated at the same time of year: they were celebrating Passover when Jesus was crucified, but Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE, and has nothing to do with the Christmas story.

(Pretty cool, eh? Yeah, I know stuff ... which always confuses the volunteers at the Jewish pavilion immensely.)

His theory was that Christians deliberately placed Christmas at a time of year that would compete with Hanukkah in order to lure Jewish people to convert to Christianity. I was with him up to this point, as I have heard the same thing about the pagan solstice celebrations: no one is exactly sure when Jesus' real birthday actually was.

However, he followed this with the comment, "I've never heard of anything more ridiculous ... worshipping a tree".

"Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree! How lovely are thy branches! Here is another brightly wrapped offering for thee!"