Are You Having a Laugh? Comedy and Christianity

00:00:06 With a church in every village, and the festival of Easter approaching

00:02:21 I'm about to hear from comedians, Christians

00:05:11 You're going, "For God's sake!" Genesis is a load of fairy stories

00:07:35 When I was growing up certainly we, this was a nation where you had

00:10:13 those things offend me.

00:12:22 For me and many Christians

00:15:24 at 9 o'clock, we did a sketch involving some characters

00:17:29 The joke was always that they didn't

00:19:33 and if that is mocked, it is like mocking

00:22:32 The Catholic Film Monitoring Office declared that to watch

00:24:44 I'm interested to know what other Christians make of this.

00:26:43 mature Christian response is to have a sense of humour.

00:29:19 "people knew enough about the Bible to complain about Life Of Brian."

00:32:23 This atheist movement has had a long legacy

00:34:34 It's going, BLEEP. "And you, you have to crawl on your belly."

00:37:08 Yeah, pretty much, because it takes a degree of arrogance to be

00:39:44 of it being excised or crossed out, I think yes, generally speaking.

00:42:22 when Pope Benedict was paying a state visit to Britain

00:44:36 somehow Muslims and Hindus and Jews would feel much more welcome.

00:47:31 in comedy is people saying, "Oh, you wouldn't say that about Muslims.

00:49:49 and interestingly nearly all of them declined to take part.

00:52:30 has always been best known

00:55:03 There were times watching Rev where it was deeply uncomfortable

00:57:27 It may be impossible to agree exactly where to draw the line