Talk:Roy Zimmerman (satirist)

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Comments[edit]

Why did he do the song "Norwedish Hate Anthem"? Has he some scandinavian roots? —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChristianKarlsson.se (talk • contribs) 23:17, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He mentions at the beginning of Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung that he is half-German, half-Swedish. Tromboneguy0186 12:06, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Removed the BLP Sources template, 20 May, 2019, as I provided valid citations to fix the 3 sourcing concerns. Ramseyman (talk) 18:54, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The paragraph that starts with "Zimmerman played in the Rock Beyond Belief concert" does not seem right. The concert is said to have been in 2012, but that is too early for a song that urges people to vote Donald Trump away. Maybe the date is wrong or two events have been combined. Grayling235 (talk) 19:16, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The paragraph is indeed not right. It was messed up (I am sure not deliberately -- I think the person who did it was trying to improve the style and misunderstood what was already there) in 2020-10. The songs he performed at "Rock Beyond Belief" included "I want a marriage like they had in the Bible", "Defenders of Marriage", "Creation Science 101", and "Jerry Falwell's God", but can't possibly have included "The Liar Tweets Tonight". I'm not sure there's really any reason to include view counts for one particular song he wrote and performed, and I suggest that the bit about "The Liar Tweets Tonight" just be removed. (Counterargument: "The Liar Tweets Tonight" is by a large margin his most popular work, at least as measured by YouTube views. Counter-counter-argument #1: so what? Counter-counter-argument #2: this just indicates that anti-Trump things were super-popular during Trump's presidency, and doesn't really tell us anything interesting about Zimmerman's work in particular. I'm more persuaded by the countercounterarguments than by the counterargument, and in fact I shall just remove the TLTW bit. If someone else feels strongly that it ought to be there, I don't feel strongly enough to get into an edit war about it :-).) Gareth McCaughan (talk) 21:48, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done. (I did it in two steps -- first fix up the mistake, then remove the paragraph -- to make things easier if someone does want to revert the latter change.) Gareth McCaughan (talk) 21:52, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Atheist?[edit]

Is he? I know he goes after fundies a lot but he also sings "God bless America, that just might work" and "I wanted to invite my god, but he was at the beach". Needs a reference and mention in the article if it's going to stay as a cat anyway, no? A Geek Tragedy (talk) 18:52, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He's almost certainly an atheist, but it shouldn't be included in the article unless someone has a source.Ash Loomis (talk) 17:13, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

His Facebook page hints at him being Unitarian Universalist.--PrplFlavrdZombe (talk) 16:14, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Unitarian Universalism welcomes theological atheism, theological humanism, and all other responsible theologies. That being said, I have no information about Roy Zimmerman's personal theology or lack of same. Ramseyman (talk) 18:56, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]