S. Brent Plate: Finally on YouTube: God himself. For the first time we find out the reasons for Down Syndrome, the Holocaust, and Celine Dion. We find out why there were TEN commandments. You know: ten fingers, ten toes, Letterman’s list. We find out that Job had a good tan… even if it didn’t help him much.

In the ten-part series created by and starring Brian Keith Dalton, we also find out Satan is a woman. Lucifer is introduced as “Lucy” (as in, “you got some ‘splainin’ to do”) protesting her part in a “script” in which she shows up on page five as a snake. In a later conversation between Mr. Deity and Lucy, Merv Griffin and Pol Pot are considered together. Griffin is demonized because of his catchy theme song for “Jeopardy,” of which Mr. Deity says, “I got that song stuck in my head once, like 3 AD, couldn’t get it out ’til the Bubonic Plague.” Lucy later reveals that she hired Nietzsche to kill Mr. Deity, to which Mr. Deity replies, hey, “I’m still here… I’m a lover.”

Its a hilarious take on the problem of evil. Slighty cynical, smartly significant. “God is a concept by which we measure our pain,” we hear. And as the episodes unfold we find that Mr. Diety is really not so comfortable with the elimination of everyone, especially Jews and homosexuals.

And, if you want, download the ringtone, which you won’t get out of your head, as long as Merv Griffin is alive.