parody and performance art

I get a hinky feeling when we’re invited to leer at a woman’s body in order to derive righteously indignant moral lessons.

Yes, they do recruit.

After years of anticipation, The Book of Mormon—the Broadway musical from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, and Robert Lopez, one of the people behind Avenue Q—is in previews; it opens March 24.

A birther group sees a “cover-up” in the words of an NPR employee, but Jon Stewart will set the record straight.

Faced with a Broadway send up, Mormon PR plays it cool.

Lord of the Rings, Gays, and Anderson Cooper. Oh my.

The Qur’an-burning Terry Jones is back to put the text on trial. Maybe he’s just a comedian in disguise.

I’m dreaming of a televised Christmas. Just like the ones I used to know.

Jesus was always flapping his gums about the poor, but not once did he call for tax cuts for the wealthiest two percent of Romans.

10 questions for the author of a new satire of American Christianity.