Paul Kerensa - What Would Jesus Laugh at? (N68)

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🗓️ 20 December 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Paul Kerensa is a stand-up comedian and BBC scriptwriter for shows like Miranda and Not Going Out. So he seemed like just the chap to talk to about the relationship between humour and religion, and to ask 'What would Jesus laugh at?' “You’ve got...

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0:00.0	I was playing chess with my mate the other day and he said to me, let's make this interesting.
0:05.7	So we stopped playing chess.
0:10.5	Hedgehogs, Wardo.
0:11.5	I don't know you feel about hedgehogs, but I always think, why can't they just share the hedge?
0:19.0	Have you ever wondered, Wardo, as I have?
0:22.2	How does the Pope pay for things online?
0:25.6	PayPal.
0:26.3	Pay for PayPal?
0:27.8	That's terrible.
0:31.3	Why is it, Ward?
0:32.2	I don't know if you ever thought about this,
0:33.2	but why is it that they only ever let old people fight in the Second World War?
0:43.3	Yeah. why is it that they only ever let old people fight in the Second World War? I just stuck a missing...
0:44.2	That would be a bad idea, actually, would it?
0:46.1	It makes a lot of sense.
0:48.2	We need to be careful how this conversation proceeds.
0:51.8	I just stuck a missing lamp post picture on a cat.
0:57.9	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:00.5	Sorry, I was, I was aware then.
1:02.4	I don't know if you knew this about me, actually,
1:03.7	but I used to work in a shoe recycling shop,
1:06.2	but it was soul destroying.
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