{"id":2960,"date":"2012-10-26T11:05:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T11:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2018-07-19T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T20:18:09","slug":"joel-osteen-as-stand-up-comedian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2012\/10\/joel-osteen-as-stand-up-comedian.html","title":{"rendered":"Joel Osteen as Stand-Up Comedian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s Teri Gross recently interviewed the comedian, Chris Rock, on &#8220;Fresh Air.&#8221; \u00a0A friend and fellow T.A. in Intro to Homiletics with Tom Long mentioned the exchange yesterday for its application to preaching (we preacher types are interested in these sorts of things): apparently Rock credits old-time preachers, from his grandfather to contemporaries Joel Osteen and T.D. Jakes, for influencing how he approaches stand-up comedy.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the transcript of this portion of the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/episconixonian.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/chris-rocks-college-of-preachers.html\">here<\/a>. \u00a0I also stumbled upon some further, <a href=\"http:\/\/danielsilliman.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/what-chris-rock-learned-from-tv.html\">related reflections<\/a> by American religion and culture scholar Dan Silliman, who teaches at the University of Heidelberg. \u00a0(Silliman is currently finishing a dissertation on how secularity as a construct and condition is imagined and represented in evangelical fiction, and I&#8217;m intrigued!)<\/p>\n<p>Rock seems simultaneously both to scorn and admire the act of preaching. \u00a0(In this way, maybe he is like a lot of us.) \u00a0He can tell, he says, when he sees a preacher has &#8220;lost&#8221; his audience and needs to pull a &#8220;trick&#8221; out of his bag for the sake of performance. \u00a0Still, he credits his preacher grandfather and his grandfather&#8217;s bullet-point brainstorming in the car for how he, as a comedian, now approaches an act.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com\/video\/chris-rock-part-1-6712\/1405497\">here<\/a> was Chris Rock earlier this year on &#8220;Late Night with Jimmy Fallon&#8221; promoting <em>Madagascar 3.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s Teri Gross recently interviewed the comedian, Chris Rock, on &#8220;Fresh Air.&#8221; \u00a0A friend and fellow T.A. in Intro to Homiletics with Tom Long mentioned the exchange yesterday for its application to preaching (we preacher types are interested in these sorts of things): apparently Rock credits old-time preachers, from his grandfather to contemporaries Joel Osteen&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,249],"tags":[1175,1178,1180,1176,1179,1177,1181],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-preaching","tag-chris-rock","tag-comedy-and-religion","tag-joel-osteen","tag-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon","tag-mormonism-and-racism","tag-romney-and-mormonism","tag-t-d-jakes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Joel Osteen as Stand-Up Comedian? 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