Farting preacher back on YouTube

After an inexcusably long absence from YouTube, the farting preacher is back. (Thanks, Coop!)

[#1 posted by InnerNinja , August 14, 2008 2:00 PM]

Absolutely brilliant. This is more professionally done than the Iranian use of Photoshop to hype their missile capability. The farting preacher also stands to create more peace throughout the world... with laughter.

[#2 posted by ployntabs , August 14, 2008 2:07 PM]

farting is next to godliness.

[#3 posted by aldasin , August 14, 2008 2:07 PM]

Tootin' Tilton, still bilking little widow ladies out of their spare change.

[#4 posted by NeonCat , August 14, 2008 2:08 PM]

Good Lord! I first saw this before a SubGenius Devival in Atlanta in 1992!

It's Robert Tilton, I believe.

[#5 posted by seyo , August 14, 2008 2:11 PM]

this is totally fake, I can tell by some of the decibels, and also because I have heard a lot of farts before.

[#6 posted by coldspell , August 14, 2008 2:16 PM]

fake. This is obviously Photoshopped.

[#7 posted by turbogeezer , August 14, 2008 2:26 PM]

Thank you, Jesus! And thank you, BoingBoing! I needed a good laugh, and this left me in tears...
"A Directory of Wonderful Things", indeed.

[#8 posted by Dante , August 14, 2008 2:32 PM]

Bravo. Truly a blast from the past. A version of this video was circulating Austin back in the late 80's. A hurricane snatched my copy of it years ago. Good to see it surface again.

[#9 posted by mokey , August 14, 2008 2:32 PM]

photoshart

[#10 posted by dubitable , August 14, 2008 2:36 PM]

Is anyone actually trying to sell it as real? I thought it was a pretty deliberate attempt to graft farting noises onto footage of the ridiculous faces and gestures that Tilton makes, solely to make fun of the con artist/preacher, not to try and fool anyone into believing that he'd actually made those farts during his programming...

[#11 posted by Anonymous , August 14, 2008 2:39 PM]

haha, a very old video that never gets old. fun times.

[#12 posted by Matt Staggs , August 14, 2008 2:44 PM]

I interviewed Joe Bob Briggs (John Bloom) a year or two back. He told me that this was the work of his religious satire group "The Door."

[#13 posted by durrrt , August 14, 2008 2:53 PM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85b_sPHkEPc

[#14 posted by GrymRpr , August 14, 2008 3:01 PM]

I was one of the ones who the good "rev" got in his sweep
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/GrymOne/Wacked_By_FP.jpg
Aaaaa Well...

[#15 posted by Chinese Jet Pilot , August 14, 2008 3:15 PM]

If it's real, his sound guy must have miked him in two places

[#16 posted by Adam Weiss , August 14, 2008 3:15 PM]

So I was curious about this Robert Tilton guy and went looking for original material on Youtube. I didn't quite find it yet, but I found something much, much better.

Put "robert tilton success n life" into the Youtube search box. Watch them all. You'll be falling on the floor...

[#17 posted by cycle23 , August 14, 2008 3:16 PM]

#11, there's a running gag on the internet you may have not heard about... If you see something that has been altered photographically, say, any picture released from Iran, you can say:

"This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels."

Now, don't you feel educated?

As for the man in the video, oh yeah, anyone from Texas has fond memories of this guy. I drove past the church quite a bit in my Denton days.

Several bands in Denton in the 90s enjoyed using his squinty eyed images in their posters, like the hard core crowd treated Reagan.

[#18 posted by Chas44 , August 14, 2008 3:17 PM]

This may be the single best thing ever posted on YouTube.

[#19 posted by cycle23 , August 14, 2008 3:17 PM]

#15. I keep reading your comment as "milked him in two places". Please stop making me do that.

[#20 posted by Chas44 , August 14, 2008 3:19 PM]

#11, 'm gssng n n hs vr dscrbd y s "xcssvly smrt."

[#21 posted by OsoMan , August 14, 2008 3:30 PM]

I cried...

[#22 posted by Anonymous , August 14, 2008 3:32 PM]

Not the most dignified way to mock a televangelist, but fart jokes are always funny. I'm sure even those old men in top hats laugh inside while their monocles drop.

[#23 posted by adamrice , August 14, 2008 3:44 PM]

This was originally circulated in VHS form under the title "Make A Joyful Noise." I'd be surprised if it wasn't sold at Fringeware at some point.

[#24 posted by Fernando Rizo , August 14, 2008 3:52 PM]

I finally registered an account for the soul purpose of relating the fact that "phartoshopped" made me laugh out loud for a solid minute.

[#25 posted by Anonymous , August 14, 2008 3:59 PM]

"Phartoshopped" is better than I can come up with, but somehow lacking. Photosharted?

[#26 posted by Antinous , August 14, 2008 4:04 PM]

You only have to change one letter to get 'pootoshopped', but maybe that's only US slang.

[#27 posted by Jason McIntosh , August 14, 2008 4:39 PM]

Further reading: Fart Within the Matrix.

[#28 posted by franko , August 14, 2008 4:41 PM]

i can almost SMELL the glory!

[#29 posted by frankieboy , August 14, 2008 4:43 PM]

The fake farts aside, I love this guy. He's so shamelessly full of shit one has to stand in awe. I would occasionally run across his program, and just could not pull myself away. He gets himself worked up, and then does this "speaking in tongues" routine; he'll interupt himself by suddenly looking up and straight into the camera, and say "I see someone who is afflicted with arthritis", or whatever. He will then instruct the ailing viewer to place the hurting limb on the TV set, so he can better direct his prayer for a speedy recovery. All the while he's keeping up a steady pitch to call him, and send a 'prayer offering'. Call the number and get them to send you a packet, it's truly marvelous in it's manipulativeness. Warped as hell, but at the same time brilliant. Another great one was on the AM radio, Reverend Ike. He once sent me a shower cap, that had a hand print printed on it. You are meant to don it, and get the same kind of blessing as if the Reverend himself had just clapped his big ol' hand onto your skull. Balls, that's all I can say, big ones. I'll bet they all make a fortune of tax free moolah, too. Workin' it baby, workin' it. Hallelujah!!!

[#30 posted by DaPhinoXX , August 14, 2008 4:51 PM]

Man, this is the best thing ever.

[#31 posted by Sparrowhawk , August 14, 2008 4:51 PM]

So wait... Robert Tilton is really a Slitheen*?

(* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slitheen )

[#32 posted by Tony Moore , August 14, 2008 4:53 PM]

i like to think that when God looks down and sees this video, it makes him smile. Clearly, He has a great sense of humor, dark as it often is.

-T

[#33 posted by Contrasoma , August 14, 2008 5:13 PM]

I went looking for this a while back to no avail. There were many pretenders to the throne, but it's great to see the original again.

[#34 posted by theshow , August 14, 2008 5:15 PM]

The best by far from the series is "Farting Preacher 2: Fart Harder".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ruo5TLJvLk

[#35 posted by OM , August 14, 2008 5:20 PM]

...It's Tilton. A similar tape exists of Benny Hinn as well. IIRC, KDFW in Dallas was the source of the first set of tapes for each, and while all the farts are added, they're also considered by most experts to be authentic just on general damn principle :-) :-)

"Ubba-dubbi-abba-dabba-doobie-doo-doo..."

[FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART!]

"...Praise Jesus!"

[#36 posted by takeshi , August 14, 2008 5:30 PM]

OK, I can appreciate that this video is making the rounds again, but calling Robert Tilton "Farting Preacher" is like calling Hitler "The Easter Bunny."

At one time, Tilton was the worst of the worst, bilking more old ladies out of their money than anyone ever had—indeed, more than anyone has in the decades to follow. Most of the letters sent in were discarded without even being read; their donations removed, prayers unanswered.

Tilton managed to piss off a lot of people with his "Jews in New York" comment on Inside Edition, I believe, and on the following Easter, he fumblingly apologized to his Jewish brethren, to no avail. It was the end of an era. Since those days, Robert Tilton wound up, for a time, on BET, in the middle of the night, seemingly humbled, still begging for cash.

One can only hope that his subsequent disappearance from the airwaves is an indication that the world has become a bit smarter, but as anyone who was watching George Bush at the Olympics knows, it prolly just ain't so.

[#37 posted by erissian , August 14, 2008 5:36 PM]

#19 That what I thought he said until your post lead me to read it again.

[#38 posted by hubbledeej , August 14, 2008 5:50 PM]

This was in youtomb's inventory which probably explains a bit why it was removed from youtube: http://youtomb.mit.edu/browse/down%3Acopyright%3ARev.%20Robert%20Tilton

[#39 posted by arkizzle , August 14, 2008 5:50 PM]

Most of the letters sent in were discarded without even being read; their donations removed, prayers unanswered.

I'm not sure Tilton had anything to do with that last one :)

[#40 posted by strougly , August 14, 2008 5:56 PM]

ding ding ding!

godwin's law strikes again...

[#41 posted by Xopher , August 14, 2008 5:59 PM]

The first few added farts are funny, especially since they add them when he's screwing up his face as if in concentration, or fighting off an attack of twitching.

It gets old fast. But I kept watching longer than I otherwise would have because I was so flabbergasted that even the dumbest, most senile old widder woman could be taken in by a con man this obvious. I mean, he's such a broad stereotype that he'd be considered over the top on South Park!

[#42 posted by Anonymous , August 14, 2008 6:16 PM]

#19 I read it the exact same way, and didn't realize it was "miked" until you brought it up. Thank you. I can move on now, and stop thinking about being milked in 2 places.

[#43 posted by Ugly Canuck , August 14, 2008 6:28 PM]

I'm with you cycle 23.

[#44 posted by Noddy93 , August 14, 2008 6:31 PM]

for you "photoshop" people... this video was making the round in the late 1980s.

my friends and I made the LSD influenced 100-mile Sunday morning drive north on I35 to Tilton's "Word Of Faith" church a good dozen times from '87-'90. Nothing was better than the KISS record burnings! save for maybe the 'hummina hommina boogita bigita' glossolalia nonsense.

One friend lost his entire college fund to Tilton's ministry (what was it... Suburbia[the punk classic not the GenX tripe] that had the same story?)

Up until a few years ago, when my wallet was heisted, I carried a Tilton "Prayer Cloth" in my wallet. Although the wallet itself was routinely empty I was always "rich".

[#45 posted by retchdog , August 14, 2008 6:39 PM]

@42 Noddy93: Repo Man.

[#46 posted by arkizzle , August 14, 2008 6:45 PM]

for you "photoshop" people... this video was making the round in the late 1980s.

So was Photoshop :p

[#47 posted by Brother Provisional , August 14, 2008 6:52 PM]

#40, no doubt, this does get old fast. The farts used were all of a consistent level of "dryness". After about five of them, I was, like, you can't tell me that I'm supposed to believe that each and every one of this guys bowel expulsions were of the dry and airy variety. No squeakers, hissers, fizzles, blats, wetties, poofs, creepers, bubblies, squisher, or mufflers? How am I supposed to suspend my disbelief and loose myself in the moment? I know that this was done back in the eighties, but come on. Foley artistry was alive and well back then. Low-brow teen movies were a dime a dozen, from what I recall, all of them had at least a few fart jokes.
The bottom line is, if you're not going to take your craft seriously, then why should I spend my time watching your bootlegged movies for free on the internets!

[#48 posted by fnc , August 14, 2008 6:52 PM]

It gets +1 point for the "I pooted." caption near the end.

[#49 posted by buddy66 , August 14, 2008 7:06 PM]

@#45,

Yee-zus, BROTHER, you're disgusting! :)

[#50 posted by Foofer , August 14, 2008 7:38 PM]

The best "Farting Preacher" vid, by far, is Farting Preacher V. You can't beat lines like, "I smell heaven's bakery cooking up something good for you sister!" It's fcking hilarious.

[#51 posted by takeshi , August 14, 2008 8:01 PM]

@ arkizzle:

I was thinking that some of them prayed for Bob to at least read their letters. Heh. Fat chance.

The best Tilton moment has to be when he'd just gotten a facelift, on all sorts of drugs. Chuckling, hallucinating, lighthearted and -headed, softly singing in tongues.

"Ko bada sanda..."

[#52 posted by Phikus , August 14, 2008 8:13 PM]

A very nice... ah... chaser... (ahem.) Loved the links, and Youtube recommendation Success N Life. I can't believe there are so many of these. Now all of you who have Netflix, go to instant access and watch Jesus Camp, if you have not already, for more evangelical bizarreness.

LEX@8: You get points for that one. =D

[#53 posted by ESQ , August 14, 2008 8:15 PM]

Photoparped.

[#54 posted by Antinous , August 14, 2008 8:22 PM]

Brother Provisional,

Did you just commit CATFOTFF?

[#55 posted by arkizzle , August 14, 2008 8:45 PM]

They have a flavour?

..only on curry night :)

[#56 posted by Blazorge , August 14, 2008 8:49 PM]

Totally hilarious and yet also totally messed up. This guy is so shameless, so over the top full of shit, taking money from so many sad, desperate people who don't know any better.

Personally, I don't believe in heaven or hell but I can certainly understand the attraction of such belief. If I knew that hell existed, I'd be comforted knowing that people like this would surely be there at the head of the line.
Right there along with any number of people currently in power who wear love for Jesus on their sleeves while they murder, torture, steal, lie and destroy.

Yeah, that would be nice....

Well, theres always karma.

-B

[#57 posted by holtt , August 14, 2008 8:50 PM]

Thank you Jesus!

[#58 posted by Bookyloo , August 14, 2008 8:58 PM]

Oh man. Brother Bob! I used to watch him all the time when I was a teenager. Even at 13 and 14, I could NOT BELIEVE that anyone would ever fall for this shit. I still remember one story they profiled on the show, where a kid had cancer, so his mother sent a "thousand dollar vow" to Robert Tilton. The kid then prayed with his hand on top of the tv, and (praise JESUS!) the television set somehow miraculously became warm. he was, of course, healed.

For some GREAT film of a very talented fake preacher (and one who happily acknowledged his whole act was bullshit), see the great seventies-tastic documentary film Marjoe. Marjoe Gortner looked almost exactly like Matthew McConaughey.

[#59 posted by sorted , August 14, 2008 9:21 PM]

you all that see this getting old quick (after a few passes of holy ghost) are really quite JADED...
watch it once again or twice again and you'll see, yesss you'lll ssseeeeee that it's soooooooooooooooooooooooo ovvvvvveeeeerrrrr theeee frrrippppppppppppppp'nnnnnnnnnnnnnnn top that I put it on myspace page:

http://www.myspc.cm/_db_bd_

you'llll sssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[#60 posted by sorted , August 14, 2008 9:37 PM]

oi, you castrated me Admin no fair... ;)

[#61 posted by Antinous , August 14, 2008 10:01 PM]

You can link to your MySpace page on your profile page. Sorry.

[#62 posted by ESQ , August 14, 2008 10:27 PM]

The movie "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammo" comes to mind...

[#63 posted by Foolster41 , August 14, 2008 11:47 PM]

Meh. Seen it. Not really funny to me, even if the guy was a rotten con man.

[#64 posted by eclectro , August 14, 2008 11:55 PM]

I have nothing against roasting bad ol' Bob Tilton. But when the day is done, this is nothing more than junky bathroom humor. Isn't boing boing any better than this dross??

[#65 posted by Phikus , August 15, 2008 12:09 AM]

ELECTRO@65: I think you have your answer...

I think this grand asshole is funny enough w/o the farting, but who am I to ruin anybody's fun. Fart on!

[#66 posted by prunk , August 15, 2008 12:36 AM]

photoshart.... HA!

"This looks shopped. I can smell from some of the pixels."

[#67 posted by Gilbert Wham , August 15, 2008 12:58 AM]

@#23: Does one need a dignified way to mock a televangelist preacher?

[#68 posted by Gary61 , August 15, 2008 7:53 AM]

"Klaatu Barada 'Nikpssshto."

[#69 posted by Boba Fett Diop , August 15, 2008 8:06 AM]

He's got the spirit of the Lord in him, and it's trying to get out!

[#70 posted by Takuan , August 15, 2008 8:32 AM]

http://xkcd.com/459/

[#71 posted by civilwarnascar , August 15, 2008 9:05 AM]

I HAVE AN OLD VHS OF THIS THAT GOES BY THE NAME :
"PASTOR GAS!"

[#72 posted by Brother Provisional , August 15, 2008 9:21 AM]

Sorry, my post previous post was responding to #42, not #40. Also apologies to anyone grossed out by my lexicon. I was attempting a facetious lampoon of the act of over-criticizing something as simple as fart jokes.
Also, Antinious, I wouldn't put it past myself.

[#73 posted by OM , August 15, 2008 9:24 AM]

"I still remember one story they profiled on the show, where a kid had cancer, so his mother sent a "thousand dollar vow" to Robert Tilton. The kid then prayed with his hand on top of the tv, and (praise JESUS!) the television set somehow miraculously became warm. he was, of course, healed. "

...IIRC, SciAm and Randi debunked this one a while back. The TV set was an old, defective B&W model that "miraculously" had the picture tube go flakey during the "hands-on" moment. As a result, the kid got what to a normal person would have been a lethal dose of x-rays, but instead got just the right amount to kill his cancer. It rendered him sterile, and he glowed in the dark for some two weeks afterwards, but at least he lived to grow up.

[#74 posted by Takuan , August 15, 2008 9:35 AM]

@74
I liked it.

[#75 posted by Mark Frauenfelder , August 15, 2008 10:58 AM]

Eclectro@65: "...this is nothing more than junky bathroom humor. Isn't boing boing any better than this dross??"

I couldn't find any high-quality bathroom humor yesterday, but I needed my fix so I took what I could get.

[#76 posted by antonperez , August 15, 2008 11:09 AM]

It's hilarious...I wonder what the senior citizens are thinking/saying when they watch him.

[#77 posted by tohoscope , August 15, 2008 12:17 PM]

http://www.animehell.org/2007/04/gospel-of-farting-preacher.html

[#78 posted by trr , August 15, 2008 2:31 PM]

they don't sound very realistic IMO.

[#79 posted by johnandrewwalsh , August 15, 2008 5:10 PM]

Senator Robert Byrd has the same problem.

[#80 posted by johnandrewwalsh , August 15, 2008 5:11 PM]

http://bushleague.tv/2008/06/03/breaking-sen-robert-byrd/

[#81 posted by pAULbOWEN , August 17, 2008 7:15 AM]

Weapon grade funny.

[#82 posted by avantard , August 17, 2008 1:02 PM]

Dudes there have been 5 different compilations of farting Tilton on Ebaum for years. I'm surprised so many commenters are either a) believing this is real or b) crying fake. Of course it's fake! What televangelist would ever air themselves farting all over their sermons?! Dear lord, people, get with the program.

[#83 posted by arkizzle , August 17, 2008 1:50 PM]

"Dear lord, people, get with the program."

Avantard, sage advice. Try it.

[#84 posted by Takuan , August 17, 2008 2:14 PM]

I suppose he'll tell us pro wrestling is fake too. Infidel.

[#85 posted by ill lich , August 18, 2008 12:44 PM]

Call me childish, but I never tire of this video.