Pamela Anderson, the silicon enhanced sex tape star and Playboy centerfold, will be playing the Virgin Mary in a sketch comedy show that will appear on the Comedy Network and in Canada.
Anderson will play the mother of Jesus opposite comedian Russell Peter Joseph in a mock manger scene in a comedy sketch Christmas special. CTV described the special as Peters’ “irreverent twist” on the Christmas special.
But I have to wonder – what’s the twist? There’s no twist to irreverence anymore. It’s been done and overdone.
Irreverence is so commonplace that it’s now the norm.
Honestly, how is it an “irreverent twist” when nobody’s making reverent Christmas specials anymore? You want to shock us, show a little reverence. But I fear that too many of us have forgotten how to feel or show reverence. It’s not so much that we’ve forgotten how to worship, it’s just that we’re worshiping all the wrong things.
November 23, 2011 at 2:39 pm
In one of the Planet of the Apes movies, the older series, there is a scene where mutated humans use a form of the Lord's Prayer when refering to a bomb. The implication is that the true reference was loss and this weapon of incalcuable power was substituted. It seemed very far fetched but you could in a scifi way make sense of it. Here it is in our face. We live in the time of purposeful and relentless attacks on faith have now resulted in comics mocking an important aspect of humanity yet they don't know what it is they are mocking. This skit could easily be 2 chimps dressed in miters and crosiers to get a few cheap laughs.