Comics' 'sanity' rally sends thanks to God (no joke)

Unlike , Comedy Central TV hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert never claimed God inspired their joined-at-the-funny-bone on Saturday on the National Mall. But word of God turned up, and prayer as well.

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Father Guido Sarducci gave the benediction. Blogger Jerry Litt, a tells readers unfamiliar with the Saturday Night Live character played by Don Novello:

The priest who makes divisive religious rifts vanish in a puff of smoke, is mauled by some spoilsports for mocking religious sentiments, but he is a hit in the blogosphere, and is ruling the Google Trends roost.

It wound around a bit (you can watch him call out cheers for the Methodists, Buddhists and

But when it came to the wrap up, where any good , so did Sarducci.

Well God, I don't know your schedule, but, uh, I imagine you must be pretty busy. You got the whole world in your hand and all that stuff. But before I go, I just wanna say, God, eh, on behalf of all of us, thank you for making the universe. And thank you for giving us all the good things, like trees, and animals ... dogs, especially thank you for dogs.

And thank you for all of the good things that we do in your name, like charity and, eh, forgiveness, that's an idea we would never come up with that's for sure. You know that better than anybody. So, on behalf of all of us, thank you very much, and we really mean it. Amen.