Something..amazing I want to talk about.  I was making my normal rounds on the internet, eventually getting sucked into the black hole known as Wikipedia, when I came across the awesomeness that is Gospel Magic.  Now, I’m not a religious person, so this may be a common thing that everyone knows about, but I did go to a Catholic high school and never heard a thing about it.  Basically, what this is, is stage magic performed to help teach the word of God (Word of God?…is word capitalized? hmm).  So you have magicians. Performing tricks. Tricks that are meant to explain various ideals to the Christian community (Jewish people do not fret.  You have your own kind of magic.  That’s right.  Torah Magic).

Okay.  Let’s discuss.  First of all.  Is this not a crazy discovery?  I mean, imagine a guy in a tuxedo pulling a rabbit out of a hat and somehow tying it in to the story of The Good Samaritan.  Hell.  I would’ve totally been down for that when I was young.  All I remember from church as a kid were these creepy looking old guys in robes chanting things and frightening images of Jesus all over the place.  Not something I really wanted to go back to.  Now.  Take the church, replace the way too many crucifixes with smoke machines and cool party lighting, switch the random assistants or whatever (they might also be priests?) with attractive women willing to be cut in half while smiling, and change the priest’s wardrobe to some random 80s style bright colored that all magicians love to wear.  Who the hell wouldn’t watch a show like that??  Kids would be begging their parents to go.  If church was like that, I might still be going.

Just think.  Levitating priests? Making the Virgin Mary disappear??  The possibilities are endless!  How entertaining would weddings and funerals be?  All that random stuff spoken during the ceremonies that no one listens to replaced by some old Irish guy turning napkins into doves!  Right?!

Now there are some probably saying…”Heyyyy. Magic is all dark arts and evil things.  Religious authorities won’t support that.”  Well apparently there’s some sort of a loophole here.  It’s not cool to deceive people, but its totally fine to ‘trick’ people if you reach a pconclusion that teaches a good, wholesome religious value.

On top of how fun going to church would be, there’s a whole community behind Gospel Magic that people can tap into.  There are famous Gospel magicians (trading cards maaybbee??), Gospel Magic holidays, even a Gospel Magician’s Oath!

…Alright.  I realize this kind of ridiculous, but it’s a real thing and I think more people should know about it.  What’s that you say?  “Where can I find out more?”  I’ll tell you!  You should check out the USA Fellowship of Christian Magicians website.  Yup.  There is an actual Fellowship of Christian Magicians. Enjoy!

At the end of the day, I’ll I’m trying to say is. Who wouldn’t want to get baptized by this guy?

I like Human Giant.  I haven’t seen much, but what I’ve seen is pretty funny.  Reading Paul Sheer’s blog (one of the sketch troupe’s members) yesterday, I came across this post and had to share.

We originally shot this piece for the pilot episode of Human GIant, but we could never get this sketch on the show because there was one executive who used to work with us that HATED the sketch (and us) so much that he wouldn’t let us air it under any circumstances.

You probably are assuming he had some good reasons not to like the piece, take a look at his notes. First off, he called the piece “Unrealistic.”

“It just doesn’t make any sense. Why would anyone use a hot air balloon to chase a criminal?”

That was a good point, then again he did buy into the fact that Aziz bought an astronaut costume at a thrift store, trained for space travel at an amusement park and then traveled to the moon to fight an astronaut, so I guess realism has some shades of gray or this guy led an insane life.

He also claimed that the police officer’s uniforms were totally unrealistic (which they were were) but he felt that would distract the audience from the overall story of piece. He might have been right if we were making the Departed, but I don’t think the lack of real uniforms are going to get you lost in the Labryinth of this sketch’s plot, it’s pretty straight forward, after you read the title you kinda get the idea.

Sadly the final insult came he stared at me an admitted that hated when people wore fake moustaches, he thought that was “Just stupid”.

Sadly,  I don’t think anyone ever let this guy in on the fact we were making a sketch comedy show. He probably thought we were the cast of Run’s House and he didn’t understand why the show got so broad.

Luckily this year that executive left the show, I think he’s moved to something more culturally refined, like the Flavor Flav sitcom on CW and we were left with really cool executives who let us have gay ghost sex, brutal stabbings, kiddie coffins, and plenty of moustaches.

Here’s the video they’re referring to: