And now, BGT brings you...The Christian Singing Mime!

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I just watched a chunk of Britain’s Got Talent (I think it was some kind of extra show) that had a mime.

A middle aged female mime.

A middle aged female Christian mime.

She comes out on stage, they ask her what she does, she explains that she’s mime unlike any mime they’ve seen before: a Christian mime. What’s a Christian mime? She plays a Christian song and mimes to the words.

Okay. Fine. Do it, we’ll mock it, next.

But…the music doesn’t work! It worked yesterday…

Simon: Could you hum it?

Well, I could sing it…

Alright, sing it then.

Which is how I found myself watching a Singing Christian Mime and wondering why no one in the video seemed to appreciate the fundamental ludicrousness…not of the Christian Mime-ness…but of

ASKING A FUCKING
MIME

TO SING!!!

Really, a singular moment in televised idiocy.

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The Christian Mime!

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Proof that there is a God?

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If it involves a mime it must be proof that there is a hell.

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With God all things are possible.

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In the US these are called live videos, and are the bane of evangelical youth groups. Your humble correspondent even performed in a few. Carmen has alot to answer for.
In vaudeville a similar style of performance was called a record act and is what Jerry Lewis was doing when he met Dean Martin.

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Yes, but did he SING?

(I believe that’s also what Andy Kaufman did to the MIghty Mouse song, in his own amazingly twisted and wonderful and much missed way…)

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Wait, “mime to music”? Isn’t this what one usually calls “dancing”? Or is that sinful?