Dominic Conti walks by carrying "the ax of the apostles." Austin Tichenor announces the next skit will cover "early Genesis," the best part, "when they still had Peter Gabriel." Abraham enters in a ...

The Promised Land also makes some more obscure biblical details memorable, such as when Oholiab (Ash Kahn)—a specialist in ...

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Like many Americans, Bill Cosby owns multiple Bibles — eight, in fact. And, like many Americans, he doesn’t read any of them regularly. But for a half-century or more, Cosby’s been looking for funny ...

A Brigham Young University English professor will discuss “Humor in the Bible” during the annual P.A. Christensen Humanities lecture Thursday, Feb. 19, at 11 a.m. in 2084 Jesse Knight Humanities ...

ROME - Humor in the Bible? Scholars say the Old and New Testament are riddled with humorous references and clever wordplay and aim to set the record straight at a three-day congress that began Monday, ...

David Plotz was a not-very-observant Jew who had spent three decades largely avoiding the Bible until one day when, bored at a cousin's bat mitzvah, he began thumbing through a copy of the Torah.

Apparently unafraid that thunderbolts will suddenly sizzle them, and not fearing that great clouds of locusts will descend upon them, the Elden Street Players have put the Bible squarely in their ...

Funny thing, the Bible. Funny peculiar, not funny 'haha'. In fact, it is the glaring lack of 'haha' that makes it so peculiar. There is almost no humour in the Tanakh and New Testament. The Old ...