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Faith is lost and new answers are found.
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Youre not religious almost at all earlier in your career.
This is what we do.
From your first special toFaces and Sounds, you made another jump.
These jokes are different than how other people would tell them.
This is yours now.Its proselytizing.
So, I am wondering, are you a youth pastor?Yeah.
Thats kind of it.
Ideally, a good pastor wants to empower a congregation to the point where they dont need him.
You want everyone to leave feeling better.
A very similar skill set.
The spiritual teachers that I relate to are the ones that say, You dont need me.
You dont need this.
We can use the podium of stand-up.
I think one of the worst things we can do with stand-up is just reiterate what they already know.
I see a lot of stand-up that says, especially guys, Isnt sex great?
Isnt it great to be great?
Isnt being right great?
Thats very American humor.
We have the upper hand.
We have the last laugh.
They dont even try Me American, me so smart, me no drink the pee-pee part.
I know thats offensive.
I wonder what the continuing hybrid of stand-up and being a youth pastor would look like.
I dont have this planned out.
I have a joke about checking if you have to pee, and Im like, Everybody do it.
Dont answer out loud, but answer the question in your mind: Do you have to pee?
And everybody would check and then I just make fun of that gadget, like, What just happened?
Even when we were going to church, my pastor wasnt talking about the phenomena of awareness.
He was giving me a story with answers.
He was ticking boxes.
He was going, Youre afraid youre going to die?
Well, we got that covered.
Come back next week and well tell you again.
More than they should be explained away.
