Jesus, Satan and mimes walk into a bar...

Do you ever have one of those conversations in the dark of night at a sleepover, camping or with your spouse that is absolute comic gold?  The kind of thing that you swear that you simply CANNOT afford to forget?  Sarah and I had one of those the other night which I need to get written down before the memory of it fades.

It all stemmed from a legitimate discussion regarding the skit which usually accompanies the salvation message at the end of our summer camps.  I will once again be playing Jesus (either because I have a beard already or because everyone else wants to play the people who kick "Jesus" in the sketch) and Sarah wanted to know what the basic outline was.  I mentioned that there is Jesus and the requisite sinners; generally alcoholics, gamblers, materialistic workaholics and if the translators are feeling crazy that day, a few prostitutes.  Sarah, having grown up in a church that was big on drama, asked if there would be a Satan character dressed in black and slinking around nefariously.  She did a spectacular reenactment of how that should be done, nearly bringing me to tears... of laughter.

She then started to delve into her memories of church dramas, but combining them all together into one presentation, eventually bringing on the climactic line of our little family comedy club, "Jesus, Satan and some mimes walk into a bar.  No one says anything and everyone was saved.  Yeah Jesus!" (Line of the day, baby)

It sort of reminded me of a classic Monty Python bit where a guy comes into an ad agency with some ridiculous amount of string that he wants to sell - the catch being that it is in 3 inch segments.  The ad-man starts running through what is needed in the advertisement to make sure all the marketing bases are covered.  He eventually ends up with an ad in which there is a woman in a bathtub (sex) surrounded by the Pope (religion), some kids (children), a puppy (animals) and probably a bunch of other stuff that I'm forgetting (help me out on this one, Coach).

This isn't intended to be a Stuff Christians Like-type post but we do seem to enjoy hitting people with Jesus, sinners, Satan and some miming all in the same presentation.

Ok, I got that all out so I'm done.