# Christian comedy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-comedy/852088 "2020-04-18T22:57:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-comedy/852088/41 "2020-04-20T20:52:03Z")
There is a style of comedy directed at people who grew up inside a religion, and relies on “shared experience” and a common base of assumptions for its drive. It’s not jjust “cleaned up” comedy. Sometime it can get pretty racy. Catholicism has a lot of this (although maybe I’m just more aware of it, having been brought up catholic): John R. Powers books – _Do Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?_ . _The Last Catholic in America_ . _the Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice cream God_ . There’s apparently a musical based on his works out there The “Growing Up Catholic” series by Mary Jane-Frances Cavolinas et al – _Growing Up Catholic_ . _More Growing up Catholic_ . _Still Catholic After All These Years_ Ed Stivender – _Raised Catholic – Can you Tell?_ . _Still Catholic – After all these Fears_ There’s also a play – _Late Night Catechism_ (not to mention the various incarnhations of _Nunsense_) I also have a couple of books of Catholic cartoons about _Speck the Altar Boy_, which doesn’t really fit the style of the above. I’ve seen books about people raised in other religions, too. When I was in Utah the books of Pat Bagley cartoons and Orson Scott Card’s _Saintspeak Dictionary_ were as much help in understanding the SLC culture (and the way Mormonism is really practiced) than any number of learned texts. There’s also a “Growing up Catholic’” style humor book about being raised Protestant that covers things for those folks. I think that what would really help international understanding would be if someone did a similar book on growing up Muslim. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-comedy/852088.md?page=2)