bernard thomas (august 22, 1948 – june 16, 2019), better known as bishop bullwinkle, was an american singer and comedian. he was best known for appearing in the viral youtube video "hell 2 da naw naw". by july 22, 2015, the video went viral and got over 200,000 views with over 4,000 likes. as of january 17, 2019, a video of the song attracted over 32 million views and 236,000 likes. he was born in tampa, florida. his name was inspired by the cartoon character bullwinkle the moose.