Funny Mormons

I saw this on facebook and I had to share.

If you watched the BYU football game September 30, 2011 you may have noticed the hair of Riley Nelson, the backup (maybe now the starter) quarterback. It was a bit long for BYU standards.

Well, after he drove the Cougars to the win, someone made a video asking for people to save his hair from the testing center. If you don’t know, BYU has a testing center that requires grooming to be up to BYU standards to take a test. It is unlikely Riley’s hair will meet those standards. There is even an article in the Daily Universe, the BYU newspaper about the hair.

Anyway, here is the video and it is pretty funny.

What do you think his coach Bronco Mendenhall said to him at 1:03-1:08 of the video when he grabs his head and gives him a hug? My guess is, “Great job Riley. Now get your hair cut.”

Maybe you’ve already seen it. Well, watch it again! “Don’t be knuckleheads!”

Tell us which episode is your favorite? “13 Completos for only 13 dollars”, “This is super delicious”, “Some mermaids are boys too!”

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He is the Most Interesting Mormon in the World. This is a pretty funny spin off of the commercial about the Most Interesting Man in the World. There are two videos so far. I will watch for any more and post updates as they come out.

Have you ever watched the ABC reality show The Bachelorette and thought, “What would an LDS version of this show look like?” Well, wonder no more. It has been going for almost a year in Arizona and is now in Season 3. When I heard about it I had to laugh. I admit I have seen bits and pieces of the mainstream show on ABC and think it is a joke. The news in Arizona ran a report on the LDS version running a series on YouTube yesterday and my wife told me about it. I immediately thought I need to post this on FunnyMormons, because more people need to know about this.

Ryan Farley is an LDS father of 5 children who makes funny videos with his kids and posts them on his youtube channel and website. The videos are well done it looks like he has a lot of fun with his kids. He also puts a lot of effort into making them high quality. They are more than just home videos.

This is a controversial topic right now. If you haven’t heard already, there is a musical on Broadway named ‘The Book of Mormon.’ It recently won nine awards at the 2011 Tony Award ceremony. It has also broken some records for Broadway musicals. The problem is, the show was not written by a friend of the LDS church. In the words of the creators it is supposed to ‘gently mock Mormons.’

Well, there are a few people that don’t like that and they aren’t all Mormons themselves. Deseret News recently had a great article about the responses of some people around the country.

Dr. Harold Pease, a history and political science professor at Taft College, was not nearly so light-hearted as he mused about “The Book of Mormon’s” creators admission that the show was designed to “gently mock Mormons.”

“Imagine a script designed to ‘gently mock’ Islam or its sacred book the Quran, or Christianity and its sacred book the Bible,” Pease wrote in the Bakersfield Californian. “The Middle East would be in flames, al-Qaida would grow and President Barack Obama would travel abroad on bended knee delivering speeches of apology.”

Click here to read the rest of the article. The article quotes a BYU professor’s response:

James Faulconer, who is a philosophy professor as well as the Richard L. Evans professor of Religious Understanding at BYU, provided an LDS perspective on “The Book of Mormon” in a column for Patheos.com. He pointed out that Mormons aren’t the only religious people who find themselves to be the target of comedic derision. “Catholic priests have come in for a good many cruel jokes recently,” Faulconer wrote. “Evangelical Christians get their fair share of mockery . . . Jews have been making jokes about themselves for a long time. We could learn from them, and we should laugh when others use humor to point out our idiosyncrasies.

It is for that reason I decided to post it here. I don’t think I will be going to the play, but at least I can not react in a hostile way, but let the “water roll of my back” so to speak. What are your thoughts?

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There have been a lot of visitors to this site that are interested in the Kid History videos. We posted about Kid History back in March. They are very funny videos. Check it out.