Instead of having the usual 555 prefix used in movies and television, a phone number used by God (Morgan Freeman) was an actual phone number in many U.S. area codes, causing owners of that phone number to be bombarded with calls. For the video release, this number was changed to 555-0123. The phone number used by Bruce later in the film was used by a radio station in Colorado and a woman in Florida, both of whom were deluged with calls wanting to talk with God. The producers bought these two phone numbers used in the film to stop the problems.
(at around 39 mins) The monkey used in the alley scene is the same monkey that was featured in Outbreak (1995) and that played Marcel on the television series Friends (1994) also starring Jennifer Aniston. It also starred against Jim Carrey in both of the Ace Ventura movies.
Egypt banned the film for its "sacrilegious content."
(at around 25 mins) The address for God's company, 77256 23rd Street, spells Psalm 23 when dialed on a phone. Psalm 23 contains the famous lines "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want" and "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me", which express the Christian theme or universal trust in God.