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Sermonette
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A Forgotten Trope, largely tapering off in The '80s and '90s. Often, when channels were finishing up for the night, they would show a short religious programme. These segments were often produced in order to comply with regulatory mandates to provide a specified amount of broadcasting "in the public interest." They tended to consist of a speaker, usually a clergyperson, delivering a short sermon or reading straight to camera, although there were some variations in the format. Depending on the editorial bent of the channel in question, they could sometimes vary in tone and style from the most typical instances of a Christian minister reading from The Bible and go in a more philosophical or literary direction than a religious one. Since the programmes often featured speakers unaccustomed to appearing on television, their style of delivery could sometimes be comically stiff or cringingly earnest, lending them an air of a Kitschy Local Commercial, but for religion rather than a discount carpet emporium. This made the format ripe for Parody. |
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Spitting Image: One episode features a direct parody of Thames' Night Thoughts hosted by Ian Paisley. | |
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A Scare at Bedtime on RTÉ directly parodies its namesake mentioned above by having two crass puppets tell each other horror stories. | |
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Not the Nine O'Clock News: One sketch is a parody of poetry readings that were sometimes delivered in lieu of a sermon, with a reading of the poem Abou Ben Adhem with multiple readers. It's all pretty standard except that Rowan Atkinson's lines are completely unintelligible. | |
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The Argentinian humor program Cha Cha Cha had a sketch called "Todos juntos en capilla" (double entendre in Spanish meaning both "All together in [a] chapel" and "All together in tenterhooks"). In it, an unnamed priest told the parables of the martyr Peperino Pómoro, whose stories were told with devotion even as they usually mentioned Peperino participating in some unsavory, dubious, or lewd activity and being afterward pursued by their outraged followers. The stories were usually improvised, and the names of characters and places were related to celebrities and public people of the time. The Catholic Church was very critical of the sketch and it successfully pressured to get it out of the show. | |
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The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour: Comedian David Steinberg would deliver parody sermonettes on the show. One of these had the risqué line "They literally grabbed the Jews by the Old Testament", which is widely considered to have been The Last Straw that got the show cancelled. | |
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Saturday Night Live parodied sermonettes in 1978 with one from the Church of Confusion. | |
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Scotch and Wry saw Rikki Fulton roast Late Call into oblivion with the Reverend I.M. Jolly. | |
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Oddity Archive: One episode features a recreation of a network sign-off the for the fictional KLAK-13 network, which also includes a parody sermonette slot titled "Give Us This Day". The slot is hosted by Pastor George Needlesman of the Needmoney Church in Beverly Hills, CA. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: One sketch parodies The Epilogue, with a cleric and a humanist who, instead of discussing the existence of God, attempt to decide the question by wrestling each other. | |
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