The Church Play Cinematic Universe

The moment in the medieval themed one where the drawbridge lowers and Jesus is just sitting there smiling, the fake British accent “he’s alive!” followed by the off pitch “everybody dance now!” Is comedy GOLD. I rewatched that part four times. This video is my comfort video sometimes I get the songs stuck in my head specifically how they are sung in these church plays so I have to come rewatch it.

Katelyn Benson

That pastor seems pretty far up his own ass. And every time there are girls on stage the men make the vibe wierd. Also why do these old people star in this instead of kids? It's like people living out their big Broadway fantasy. It's so wild.

rektem322

Rewatched this and I have a new conspiracy theory about the Tombstone one: they wanted to do the horsey dance move from Gangnam Style and the western setting was all spun out from that.

Natalie Arnold

My friend sent me the public link to this video in early August and, after watching everything else on your channel, you've become the one and only Patreon I subscribe to. I love your work!

Becca Yaga

A bad "Hamilton" church play from Texas just hit social media. Jenny, thank you for making this video so I look like an expert on weird pop culture church plays in front of my friends.

this came out on my birthday and i watched it twice by myself and then once with family

Soooooo gooood !!!

This was great

what podcast?

violet

this was so wild! kinda nice to laugh at after all my childhood church trauma lmao probably one of my fav videos so far!

I watched this shortly after it came out, and then as I was listening to a podcast (that I'm behind on) the next day, they joke about a Shrek themed Easter musical (I hope this comes to be), and in the next episode someone mentions these very church musicals and they even played the sound clip if Iron Man's crucifixion. Weird but also great timing for me.

Aoife

I don't think she was ever truly "baffled", she just made commentary on them being dated, and then her opinion on that dated thing. It's something relevant to bring up when you're looking at media from 10-15 years ago, if you're not googling with each new stage, it would be hard to know that at the time of creation, the reference was ALREADY old, and just assume "they were doing what was popular then." Like no, gangnam style already had its hay day years before they did the dance.

GrubTheSlug

So, a friend of mine used to live in Winnipeg, and knows people who went/go to this church. To the point of being background performers in some of the Easter plays (probably nothing past Robin of the Hood). Turns out the Choir Director lady, who I have come to think of as Choir Director Thea (because she stole that lady's job), is a professional theatre actress in Winnipeg. So I guess she goes to that church, and one year they asked her to be their ringer, and she decided she was fine taking a week to do a little skit and belt some Adele songs while movie characters are crucified behind her. My friend reported zero drama about Choir Director Thea's predecessor, and I definitely asked, I was powerfully curious about what happened there. Anyway no wonder she's Jenny's favourite, she does this for a living.

Dan Gibbins

One criticism in this video that's a bit odd is the way that any song, movie or meme that was over a year old at the time the play was performed is seen as a bafflingly irrelevant inclusion - unless it's something Jenny likes.

Thread Bomb

The existence of God is debatable either way, but after watching this, there is no doubt in my mind that the Devil exists.

Rish Outfield

That awkward energy when a pop culture character's crucifixion is funnier than any of the actual jokes in the play but you can't laugh because it would be blasphemous...

Eric Houge