The above amazing video featuring Michael Cera is a parody of the below amazing video featuring Aleksey Vayner:

Awhile back a balding, pink-clad man with a closely cropped mustache and glasses hanging around his neck, appeared on “Real Time with Bill Maher” and, armed with a flame thrower of condescension and over-enunciation, completely obliterated any goodwill I had towards Richard Dreyfuss (which, admittedly, was not much). I don’t know where Dreyfuss 2.0 came from, but he attempted to hijack the show by rambling on and on about his new pet cause, civics, which he is apparently studying at Oxford, and by making broad, unintelligible and nonsensical statements about the state of the world, and what, according to him, is needed to right the universe.

For whatever reason, Dick decided that “Real Time” was the best time to climb atop the largest soap box he could possibly find and talk down to the lonely, unenlightened, civically ignorant proletariat of our country. Dick warned Bill Maher and the rest of his viewers that if “we” (which he elongates into three syllables) do not teach our kids “the ideas that make America a miracle” (he’s a little nebulous on what exactly these ideas are), that “we will lose it” to an axis of evil that, in his mind, include “fundamentalists of any stripe,” “stupidity,” and a third, more ominous force that Dreyfuss refers to simply as “the darkness.”

Dreyfuss then went on to frame the United States in some of the most overblown and unnecessarily dramatic terms I’ve ever heard. He states, “What this country represents is a tiny twinkle of light in a history of darkness and oppression and cruelty.” Jesus, Dick, when did you become such a Debbie Downer? The amazing thing is that Bill Maher and the rest of the guests on the show just sat there and let Dreyfuss spew forth his fountain of inanity and condescension uninterrupted. The only time when Bill actually acted like the host of the show was to correct Dreyfuss when he made the incredible claim that democracy is only 200-300 years old.

So how is this newly enlightened multi-millionaire going to change the world? In what I believe perfectly exemplifies how misguided and out of touch a lot of celebrities are, Dreyfuss has decided that he can best serve the community by helping set up a program to teach civics at a school in, wait for it…Martha’s Vineyard! That’s right, one of the richest municipalities in the country and the same place where “Jaws” was filmed is where Dreyfuss has decided to bestow his beneficence. It seems that, while he has been able to ward off the fundamentalists and keep “the darkness” at bay, stupidity has already overtaken him.

Ted Haggard, who can currently be seen on movie screens across the country acting like a total dick in the documentary “Jesus Camp,” was recently outed and ousted as president of the National Association of Evangelicals after a male prostitute revealed to the news media that Haggard was a fan of total dick. And crystal meth. Haggard initially responded by denying all allegations, but after the prostitute said he had voicemail messages, Pastor Ted changed his story to a simple case of massage and meth purchasing between friends, but no buggery. Haggard later stepped down, and in a statement to his church confessed to “sexual immorality,” among other things.

The blogosphere had a field day digging up all the hypocritical statements and footage they could find on Haggard, and one in particular they focused on was a scene from Richard Dawkins’ documentary Root of All Evil that features a heated discussion between Haggard and the Oxford professor.

I was blown away by the conviction with which Dawkins spoke to Ted Haggard. Dude came blazing right out of the gate by comparing Haggard’s sermon to a Nazi gathering. “I was almost reminded of a Nuremberg rally,” Dawkins calmly says to Haggard about the service he just witnessed, “I think Dr. Goebels would have been proud.” Haggard, in turn, appears to have no idea who Dr. Goebels is, and smiles his patented shit-eating grin as he attempts to change course, but Dawkins won’t let him off the hook.

And this is how I came across Richard Dawkins, who in the last few weeks I’ve become increasingly interested in. Dawkins believes that religion is ruining the world, and has written books expressing this view (his most recent, The God Delusion, is currently on The New York Times Bestseller list), as well as a two-part documentary for the BBC. The documentary is a must-see. Dawkins travels the world over, confronting religious nuts of all kinds, arguing science and progressive thought over old texts and faith, and lays out why we would be better off without religion.

Here’s part 1 and part 2. Or just watch them below: