Ithaca, NY — Tensions have been high in the McDowell house recently, due the sudden discovery made by Susan McDowell that her atheist son Luke is a standup comedian.
“I just don’t understand what went wrong,” Mrs. McDowell wrote to the advice section of a local editorial. “I raised Luke to have God in his heart, but there is one thing about my atheist son that is utterly godless: standup comedy. I pray every night that he sees the error of his ways, and returns to just being a person who resents the religion he grew up with.”
Luke spoke candidly about the rift in his and his mother’s relationship after an open mic at Johnny’s Tavern this past weekend.
“She wrote to the advice column in the paper?” he asked eagerly. “I am totally gonna rip on her in my new bit for doing that. My mom is always giving me shit. Even though she has no objection whatsoever to my lack of faith in a higher power, she recites verses from the New Testament when I try to tell her about a gig.”
McDowell has no current plans to quit doing comedy, but he says he understands that his mother is from a different era, and he still loves her regardless of their ensuing disagreement.
“Look, I get it,” he allowed, while taking a break from watching a recent video of himself. “She can’t grasp that all I am doing is telling amazing jokes. But if she sees my jokes on religion as truth, you’d think she’d be more concerned whether I actually bury drifters under my oak tree. ’Cause no one will miss them, right? Get it?”
While Susan still prays nightly for Luke to find his way into a less controversial career, she admits that he does have a knack for public speaking, and thinks he would make a great priest.
By Michael Williams.
The Bringer 