Movies and Media With God

George Burns played God in Oh God! and its two sequels. He also played the devil. (1977)
Disc Jockey Alan Freeman portrayed God in two episodes of the 80s British sitcom, the Young Ones. (1983)
God was played by Alanis Morissette in Kevin Smith's Dogma (1999) and again in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001). God was also portrayed by Bud Cort in the beginning of Dogma as God (playing skeeball in human form).
In It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, the unnamed character played by Whoopi Goldberg was evidently meant to portray "God" (she apparently loves Spongebob). (2002)
Morgan Freeman played God in the Jim Carrey film Bruce Almighty. (2003) He will also play God in the upcoming Steve Carell movie Evan Almighty. (2007)
In the movie Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part 4 God was portrayed by Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf
Ralph Richardson played the Supreme Being in the 1981 film Time Bandits.


"God" was the title of a 1970 song by John Lennon, which defines God as "a concept by which we measure our pain."
"God" is also the title of a 1994 song by Tori Amos from the album Under The Pink. In the song she theorizes about what God would be like if a mortal.
"One of Us" is the title of a song by Joan Osborne in which she places God in the status of an everyman, asking questions such as, "What if God was one of us [...] tryin' to make his way home, nobody callin' on the phone?"
In the album "Life's Too Good" (1988) by the Icelandic band Sugarcubes, there is a track called "Deus", describing God in a sexual way.
There is a popular culture of Rock 'n' Roll music that is Christian in nature. Steven Curtis Chapman refers to God as "Lord of the Dance".

The popular American television show The Simpsons has played on this characterization, depicting God similarly, but with the show's unique yellow-caucasian skin, although he has 5 fingers, whereas all other Simpsons characters have four. The face of this God is almost never seen in early years. In one episode this God stated on separate occasions that he has three eyes and five thighs. In a Treehouse of Horror introduction, he is fully seen, but has neither three eyes nor five thighs. He is also not omniscient or omnipotent, as he tells Homer "My son went to Earth once. I don't know what you people did to him, but he hasn't been the same since".
In the movie Superstar, God is played by Will Ferrel. When Molly Shannon's character exclaims "oh my God!", Will Ferrel responds with "Oh my me!"
In the 1973 film Heavy Traffic, God is portrayed as a giant with a white beard, and is shot in the head.
The adult animated film The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat features a bum living in a garbage can who claims to be God. It is not clarified whether or not the character actually is God. (1974)
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, God was represented by an animated photograph of cricketer W. G. Grace. (1975)
In Family Guy, God is a white-haired and bearded old man. This God goes to mass, hates being told the story of Job, and was once mugged in his kitchen by Albert Einstein while making Shrinky Dinks.

God, as portrayed in South ParkIn Comedy Central's South Park, God resembles an odd looking rodent creature, with a forked tongue with which he eats flying insects. God is portrayed as caring and sympathetic: he helps his old nemesis Satan with his relationship troubles, though by calling him a "pussy" and a "whiny bitch" in true South Park fashion. He later imprisons Satan's ex-lover Saddam Hussein in Heaven to help the devil get a fresh start. God is also naive, however, as he buys Saddam's explanation that the WMDs he's building in Heaven are really "chocolate chip factories". God also considers himself a Buddhist.
God is the main villain of the comic book series Preacher. (1995-2000)
In the movie Dogma (1999) God is played by Alanis Morissette.
God, depicted through numerous human-looking avatars, was a central character in Joan of Arcadia. (2003-5)
In the Fox sitcom Futurama, the character Bender, after a freak accident caused him to float aimlessly in space encountered an entity that was supposedly God, because its reply to Bender's question Oh my God are you God? was Possibly, I do feel love and compassion for all living things...my good chum. It is also possible, as Bender theorized, that because he speaks in binary this entity may be the remains of a space probe that collided with God (Godfellas).
In a World Wrestling Entertainment storyline, Vince McMahon booked a tag team match at the Backlash 2006 pay-per-view, pitting himself and his son Shane McMahon against born again Christian Shawn Michaels and God. At the show, God was portrayed as an invisible entity and later leaves the match, making Michaels lose.
In God, the Devil and Bob God is depicted as a hippie with sun glasses.
In Wonder Showzen, in the episode Space, God is not seen but, through his language, is portrayed as a racist black person. At the end of the episode God shoots himself and dies. The characters then cook him and eat him.