Ed Sheeran gives a hilarious reason God made him a musician

Ed Sheeran brought the house down Wednesday night when he explained to Stephen Colbert why God had made him a musician.

The red-headed Brit appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert and was prompted to talk about the stutter he had as a child.

“If I get under pressure, it comes back. But ya, I had a stutter,” the “Thinking Out Loud” performer said.

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He went on to explain that the removal of a birth mark on his eye in his youth caused the issue.

That’s when Sheeran nailed the punch line with an incredibly optimistic, and downright hilarious, view of his early challenges.

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“My way of looking at it is that the reason I became a musician is God looked down and said ‘You probably need some help getting laid.'”

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The joke even had funnyman Colbert speechless — for a moment at least.

Sheeran also performed the Bill Withers classic “Ain’t No Sunshine” during the episode.

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