Crucifixion Comedy
When Monty Python’s Life of Brian arrived on Netflix in April 2018, a controversial piece of cinema history returned to public prominence. A film which…
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Review: Redeeming Laughter
Peter Berger, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience, 2nd ed. New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2014. 201 pp. £22.99/$42.00 Fittingly, the title…
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Review: St John and the Victorians
Michael Wheeler, St John and the Victorians, Cambridge University Press, 2014, 286 pps., $44.99 / £30.82 This is a fun book. Lurking behind profound…
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Review: A Double Dose of Jesuit Humour
Jake Martin, SJ. What’s So Funny about Faith?: A Memoir from the Intersection of Hilarious and Holy. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2012, 161 pp., £11.50/$13.95 paper. James…
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The Laughter that the World Cannot Give
The Good Book tells us that when the Lord comes, “The lame shall be humorous again!” Actually, it’s “leap like the deer” (Is. 35:6),…
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Uncloaking the Proud: The Power of Comedy
‘I do not like seriousness. I think it is irreligious. The man who takes everything seriously is the man who makes an idol of…
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Two Humours Too Many
It was Saturday evening. I was set to perform a sketch at the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (CICCU) meeting straight after the visiting preacher…
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…yes I said yes I will Yes
In improvisational comedy there are a set of unwritten rules which serve as guidelines for creating successful scene work. Some of these rules include:…
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Introducing the Theology & Comedy Symposium
Today is Red Nose Day in the UK—a 25-year-long tradition of using comedy to raise funds for a variety of charities both in the…
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