Posts Tagged ‘Comedy’

Comedy and Faith

“An amateur thinks it’s really funny if you dress a man up as an old lady, put him in a wheelchair, and give the wheelchair a push that sends it spinning down a slope towards a stone wall. For a pro, it’s got to be a real old lady.”—Groucho Marx Comedy and faith have a lot of...

November 12th, 2012 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Men in Black 3, Reviewed.

The easiest way for me to recommend Men in Black 3 (which opened yesterday) is to say that the queasy feeling I had in my stomach ten years ago while watching Men in Black 2 was completely absent. I laughed. I didn’t check my watch (phone). It kept me in my seat and amused for its running...

July 26th, 2012 | Essays, Film | Read More

Why Evangelicals Struggle to Bring the Funny

While many of us held our breath for the Blue Like Jazz movie to release on April 13, I found myself wondering why its so darned hard for Evangelicals to express a sense of humor in our art. I’ve sat through one or two Christian comedy acts. Enough to know that I wouldn’t willingly do it...

May 21st, 2012 | Essays, Featured | Read More

The Raw Honesty of Louis C.K.

When I was growing up, I once heard my pastor say that God didn’t have a sense of humor. Humor, he said, was based on imperfections, and therefore nothing of God could coincide with anything less than perfection. Whatever the theological reality of this statement may be, humor is indeed based on the...

May 11th, 2012 | Essays | Read More

A Day with Don Miller

This was posted last April, so I’m a little shocked I didn’t see it until now considering it was filmed at my old house. No matter…there are certain things you learn to expect when you become a father, and one of them is being out of the loop. Anyway, Tyler Stanton and Tripp Crosby...

August 13th, 2010 | Blog | Read More

The Christian Speakeasy

Jordan Green and I had an idea to put together an album of short conversations between us. We may receive some angry comments. We call it The Christian Speakeasy. You can listen to the entire piece (40 minutes) in the player below, Podcast: Download or download it from itunes HERE. So spread...

February 16th, 2010 | Featured, Humor | Read More

The State of SNL

Only one of these people was actually funny. Every year around this time, like clockwork, naysayers commence tossing barbs at Saturday Night Live, about how it’s going downhill, about how it’s become a dinosaur. Admittedly, I did it last year, about a week or two before SNL proceeded to kick...

October 22nd, 2009 | Featured, The Idiot Box | Read More

Stuff White Christians Like

Maybe it’s just me. Maybe it’s the result of having grown up in a region of the country where even my granny would pull back the curtain with her cane and comment,”There goes those (insert N-word) again.” Poor white folks made it their business to mind what the poor black folks...

June 17th, 2009 | Blog | Read More

Nothing Like a Well Timed ‘Dude, You Stink’" by aaron donley

I talk to the homeless. Not as the casual observer or guilt ridden giver, -but as a real human being. If I see a group of my homeless friends standing around in a circle I may walk by and say, “What’s up losers?” The exact same phrase I would use if passing by some friends of my own who...

June 12th, 2009 | Blog | Read More

Flabbergasted by a Flarkhead

My phone doesn’t work. Neither does my Internet. Actually, that’s not true. The phone and Internet are fine. The service, though, that allows them do that which they were designed to do, is broken. For 16 days, I have been without them. The first 15 days came and went without much grumbling from...

June 10th, 2009 | Blog | Read More