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Humor and It’s Puzzle with Politics
Read more: Humor and It’s Puzzle with PoliticsMany of us may be familiar with the presidential impersonations of Steve Bridges (George W Bush) and Barack Obama (Reggie Brown), and have probably shared a good laugh at the uncanny likeness with which comedians of today are able to dissect our nation’s chief of state. Perhaps more readers might consumer regular helpings of…
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The Christian and Comedy- Part 2
Read more: The Christian and Comedy- Part 2Two weeks ago, in our discussion of humor, we determined that the dictionary resources identify surprise or outrageous “over-the-top” situations as the underlying aspect of what makes something humorous. However, there is another branch of comedy, called observational comedy, that earns our snickers by operating on the axiom- “it’s funny because it’s true!” Observational commentary,…
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Comedy and the Christian (Part 1)
Read more: Comedy and the Christian (Part 1)Any critic of Christians and culture always has his or her pickings of what element within our culture one wants to target as a great threat to the development and purity of the Christian soul. Although I might be wrong to say “friends, here is our greatest threat,” I have long been convicted of deceptive…