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Like many Americans, Bill Cosby owns multiple Bibles — eight, in fact. And, like many Americans, he doesn’t read any of them regularly. But for a half-century or more, Cosby’s been looking for funny ...

At first, the act looks like two men fishing. Keep listening and you'll find they're having conversations with Jesus. Members of First United Methodist Church roared with laughter Sunday as they ...

ROME - Humor in the Bible? Scholars say the Old and New Testament are riddled with humorous references and clever wordplay and aim to set the record straight at a three-day congress that began Monday, ...

Jesus Christ is healing the sick when a blind man, perhaps a little too excited upon approaching the Messiah, trips and nearly falls. Jesus smiles and sarcastically quips, “What are you: blind or lame ...

David Plotz was a not-very-observant Jew who had spent three decades largely avoiding the Bible until one day when, bored at a cousin's bat mitzvah, he began thumbing through a copy of the Torah.

Funny thing, the Bible. Funny peculiar, not funny 'haha'. In fact, it is the glaring lack of 'haha' that makes it so peculiar. There is almost no humour in the Tanakh and New Testament. The Old ...