Comedians wouldn’t cast a shadow on a single page of the Koran, but it’s always fair game to mock the marriage of Mary and Joseph, and joke that Joseph was gay. Christians and their New Testament stories are irresistible grist for mockery. But mock Hillary Clinton, and there’s hell to pay on the Jimmy Kimmel set.
There are really two kinds of Christmas. There’s the winter festival, and there’s the Christian Christmas, the birth of the Christ. There’s “Let It Snow” and there’s “Oh Come All Ye Faithful.” So when comedians joke that everything about Christmas is gay, it’s not as outrageous to suggest that Rudolph or Frosty or the Grinch are on the rainbow spectrum. It’s another to kick over the Nativity set and mock the triune God.
On Jimmy Kimmel Live, they turned to gay comic actor Sean Hayes for the mockery: “And then there’s Joseph…Why…
