Are You Having a Laugh? Comedy and Christianity

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

00:02:24 and commentators to find out what is happening.

00:05:23 LAUGHTER

00:07:46 # All creatures great and small... #

00:10:29 cannot be crossed, there just aren't, in terms of comedy

00:12:40 You can only say Jesus like that when you say the baby Jesus.

00:15:45 Vanessa, for God's sake!

00:17:48 because they take one look at you and go, "You're clearly not".

00:20:10 It gives me much greater pause for thought, to listen

00:23:09 It's sort of jaw-droppingly offensive.

00:25:16 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

00:27:28 serious figure and that what they were talking about was really

00:30:35 I am going to preach this word of Almighty God.

00:33:08 Bishops. ..Nuns and bishops and that sort of thing.

00:35:32 before we understood what mental illness was.

00:38:19 In fact comedy and my religion have a relationship in this

00:40:55 from a very, very early date

00:43:26 and I think it was right for the Foreign Office to come out

00:46:15 we're not mocking the fact that these people are Muslims.

00:48:51 For some Christians

00:51:11 for Christians to be more public than they perhaps are now

00:53:58 The Reverend Adam Smallbone swears, drinks

00:56:33 At its best, comedy can be provocative

04:00:00 on the other side of the Atlantic.