Loosing my religion

Christmas as a slippery slope to God

I started doing stand-up comedy 16 years ago, but my first time on-stage was as Jesus Christ, in the winter of 1980, in the Christmas pageant at All Saints church in South Burnaby. Though I was nearly six months old that Advent, I had the cheekbones to play a newborn, and since we were a fairly low-church Anglican parish there was no fog of incense to c…