http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFdUJLebzU
A little festive fun from one of the best British comedians at the moment, Tim Minchin. Enjoy.
1m20+ is my fave part. 
This was cut from the TV broadcast of this show after the man in charge bowed down to non-existant pressure from ring wingers.
The rest of the story, if you want to read it, can be found in the YT video description.
A little festive fun from one of the best British comedians at the moment, Tim Minchin. Enjoy.
1m20+ is my fave part. This was cut from the TV broadcast of this show after the man in charge bowed down to non-existant pressure from ring wingers.
Being Christmas, I thought it would be fun to do a song about Jesus, but being TV, I knew it would have to be gentle. The idea was to compare him to Woody Allen (short, Jewish, philosophical, a bit hesitant), and expand into redefining his other alleged attributes using modern, popular-culture terminology.
It's not a particularly original idea, I admit, but it's quite cute. It's certainly not very contentious, but even so, compliance people and producers and lawyers all checked my lyrics long before the cameras rolled. As always with these bespoke writing jobs, I was really stressed for about 3 days, and almost chucked it in the bin 5 times, and freaked out that it wasn't funny and all that boring s*** that people like me go through when we're lucky enough to have with a big audience with high expectations. And if I'm honest, it ain't a world-changing bit of comedy. Regardless...
It's not a particularly original idea, I admit, but it's quite cute. It's certainly not very contentious, but even so, compliance people and producers and lawyers all checked my lyrics long before the cameras rolled. As always with these bespoke writing jobs, I was really stressed for about 3 days, and almost chucked it in the bin 5 times, and freaked out that it wasn't funny and all that boring s*** that people like me go through when we're lucky enough to have with a big audience with high expectations. And if I'm honest, it ain't a world-changing bit of comedy. Regardless...
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