Apparently, God’s Pottery — aka Gideon Lamb and Jeremiah Smallchild — is a comedy act that was a finalist on NBC’s LAST COMIC STANDING. Well, judging from WHAT WOULD GOD’S POTTERY DO?: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SURVIVING YOUR TEENS AND/OR BEING SUCCESSFUL, they should’ve won, because this book is hilarious.
It’s a savage — and I mean savage — parody of Christian-based self-help books, particularly those aimed at the adolescent. Sex, drugs, pop culture — it’s all covered … and derided as dangerous. After all, one of the guys sports a T-shirt throughout that reads, “VIRGINITY ROCKS!”
The sex chapters were the funniest. It’s hard not to laugh when “vagina” is only printed as “v*gina,” as if it were a bad word; when masturbation is considered a problem only for boys, not to mention referred to as “the bad spurt”; and when one of the successful rules to dating is “stand as close as possible to each other without touching.”
I don’t view it as anti-Christian; I view it more as anti-close-minded. You can still be a believer and believe that this is funny stuff, because it is. —Rod Lott
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I picked this up last week and you’ re right, it’s hysterical. I liked these guys on TV, but this book takes the “act” to a whole new level. I was honestly laughing out loud by the 1st page… I’m thinking of giving it as gifts for people this christmas!