Depictions of God in popular culture

Monotheistic God as depicted in popular culture.

People who have portrayed 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 80's 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). Bud Cort portrayed God in human form in Dogma.
*In It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, the unnamed character played by Whoopi Goldberg was evidently meant to portray "God". (2002)
*Steve Coogan played God in 24 Hour Party People. (2002)
*Morgan Freeman played God in the Jim Carrey film Bruce Almighty. (2003)
*In the movie Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part 4 God was portrayed by Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf

Depictions of the Form of God:
*In the Western World, God is frequently depicted as an old white man with long white hair and a white beard. Perhaps the best-known realisation of this depiction is Michelangelo's fresco The Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
*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)
*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 Family Guy, God is as 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.
*In South Park God resembles an odd looking rodent creature, with a forked tongue with which he eats flying insects.
*God is the main villain of the comic book series Preacher. (1995-2000)
*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 it's reply to Bender's question Oh my God are you God? was Possibly, I do feel love and compassion for all living thing... my good chum. It is also possible, as Bender theorised, that because he speaks in binary this entitiy 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.

Descriptions of God in song:
*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 what be like if a mortal.
* "One of Us" is the title of a song by Joan Osborne in which she wonders what God would be like if he was one of us?