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Wanted, Christian Comedian

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/news/20040429.shtml

"The rules of the contest might prove a challenge for most stand-ups, as the rules decree applicants must "make an audience laugh in a good wholesome Christian way".

That means swearing, sexual innuendo, promotion of drug use or material that is "inconsistent with acceptable Biblical behaviour" are all out."

well is it posible?..or is it like "Christain Rock"? or is the whole idea abhorant in its implied religious biogotry?
 
"Religious leaders are to perform a stand-up show at the Liverpool comedy festival.

Sikh, Hindu, Methodist and Anglican preachers have already come forward - but organisers are desperate for rabbis and Catholic priests to join the line-up"


http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/news/20040428.shtml

maybe religion IS the new comedy
 
sidecar_jon said:
That means swearing, sexual innuen... Begatting's out? - there goes my act. :D
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This isn't as peculiar as it sounds and isn't a new idea either. (What under the sun is?) My husband still has a lot of Mike Warnke on vinyl, and if you don't know about *The Satan Seller* a lot of it is nicely amusing. In fact one of his jokes has entered our family reference vocabulary:

You can always tell when the Campus Crusade for Christ is around, because you can see some poor guy sprinting across campus yelling: "I don't wanna be saved! I don't wanna be saved!" The Crusade is the guys right behind him yelling: "Oh, yes you do!"
 
Didn't Cannon and Ball get Jesus?

Or is this limited to ones that are actually funny :D
 
Syd Little of Little and Large became a born again Christian, too. Not sure if he counts as he was the straight man, and there are few straighter than Syd Little.

Frank Skinner is a church-going Catholic, but I don't know how much religion he uses in his act.
 
So the "I can see your house from here" joke is out?

How about jokes about Methodists "drunk" on red cordial?

Can we at least make fun of the Mormons? SDA? Unitarians?

"An Anglican, a Presbyterian, and a Catholic walk into a bar..."
 
Anome, what makes you think a Christian comic couldn't make fun of his co-religionists?

Good comedy is true, holding up an illuminating mirror to the world. We are all best suited to do this toward our own subcultures. Therefore, a Christian comic would be expected to have more jokes based on the foibles of Christians than a non-Christian; just like any other ethnic or specialist comic.

Jokes don't have to be mean, you know. They're funnier if they're not.
 
But are jokes that make fun of one's "co-religionists" consistent "with acceptable Biblical behaviour"?
 
After Joe Bob Briggs gave up his We Are the Weird newsletter, he offered subscribers "the Nose," said to be the only Christian humor magazine, for the duration of their subscriptions. I didn't keep my copies of The Nose, and don't remember much about it, and have no idea if it is still published, or even the approximate dates that Joe Bob stopped writing We Are the Weird.
 
Anome said:
But are jokes that make fun of one's "co-religionists" consistent "with acceptable Biblical behaviour"?
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Many religionists and non-religionists are crackpots so they deserve being poked fun at..:)
"Evildoers...They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city..but thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision" (Psalm 59:6)

Right Lassie?
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Saucerian said:
After Joe Bob Briggs gave up his We Are the Weird newsletter, he offered subscribers "the Nose," said to be the only Christian humor magazine, for the duration of their subscriptions. I didn't keep my copies of The Nose, and don't remember much about it, and have no idea if it is still published, or even the approximate dates that Joe Bob stopped writing We Are the Weird.
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The competition closed in 2004. Nobody turned up. They’d all been Raptured.
 
Thanks for telling me, jimv1. Don't know if you or anyone else remembers Brother Bob Harrington, the Chaplin of Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

I delayed getting his record albums and when I finally did go to the only store in my area that sold Brother Bob albums, to buy them, the store had gone out of business!

Brother Bob was friends of Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt and Atheist Madilyn Murray O'Hare, and the two of them toured the USA in a bus provided to them by Mr. Flynt, putting on a stage show.

Some protestant church groups strongly condemned the stage show and urged their members not to attend it.

I would still like to hear Brother Bob's record albums, and see the stage show he did with Ms. O'Hare.

Maybe a utube search would turn up some results.
 
'Old Jews telling jokes' was quite funny.

And it is surprising that Dave Allen didn't spontaneously ignite.

And we do have some Muslim comedians occasionally.

Via Con Dios.

INT21
 
Milton Jones is a Christian and never does jokes (or one liners as they are really his trademark) that are in any way non Christian. I (very much not Christian) find his humour very refreshing.
 
Bullseye said:
Milton Jones is a Christian and never does jokes (or one liners as they are really his trademark) that are in any way non Christian. I (very much not Christian) find his humour very refreshing.
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He's brilliant.
 
No fans of the Goon Show here?
Obviously I'm too young to remember it first hand, but my dad loved it and I've watched/listened to several episodes on YouTube.
Barking mad surreal comedy, quite pythonesque, but 16 years earlier.
Spike Milligan was the best known of the team, but stalwart Harry Secombe was behind most of the comedy voices and was a devoted Christian all his life.

Just found an example. Secombe played "Seagoon" and one piece of typical crazy dialogue was:

"Ten miles I swam. The last three were agony!"

"Why?"

"They were over land."
 
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INT21 said:
'Old Jews telling jokes' was quite funny.

And it is surprising that Dave Allen didn't spontaneously ignite.

And we do have some Muslim comedians occasionally.

Via Con Dios.

INT21
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'Via Con Dios' - don't you mean 'May your god go with you'?
 
Escargot1,

Cut me some slack here.

It's one of the few Spanish phrases I know.

And it's a pretty safe one to use.

Yithian,

Thank you, kind Sir.

INT21 :)
 
INT21 said:
Escargot1,

Cut me some slack here.

It's one of the few Spanish phrases I know.

And it's a pretty safe one to use.
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I wasn't criticising your Spanish, I would never be so mean!

I was referring to Dave Allen's customary farewell - he always said 'Thank you and goodnight, and may your god go with you.' As in, there is a god because everyone has their own.
 
No offense taken. My Spanish deserves a lot of criticism.

As you see, I only remembered part of the farewell anyway.

And it is a nice, friendly thing to say. Pick you own God. One size fits all.

Mil besos.

INT21 :)
 
I second the Milton Jones recommendation

 
Stephen Colbert seems to be a somewhat observant Catholic, and he's a smart guy. I know lots of Anglicans, Methodists, and Presbys who aren't cruel, ignorant loonies.
 
On the other hand, we used watch a late night show aimed at teens and tweens called "Fire By Night" that was appalling for it's homophobia, abstinence shtick, anti Catholic "Humor", etc . There are horrible prots out of Oral Robert University.
 
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