The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact. A speccy theologian once told me that there is only one known gag in the Bible and to get it you need to know Aramaic, because it is, of course, a pun. My friend Adam has also pointed me to a routine Jesus does in John I 45-51 that involves a fig tree and a naif called Nathaniel, but it struck me as pretty lame stuf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:28AM on July 17, 2016