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A ForgottenTrope, largely tapering off in TheEighties and [[TheNineties '90s]]. Often, when channels were finishing up for the night, they would show a short religious programme.
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* ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews'': One sketch is a parody of poetry readings that were sometimes delivered in lieu of a sermon, with a reading of the poem ''Abou Ben Adhem'' with multiple readers. It's all pretty standard except that Rowan Atkinson's lines are completely unintelligible.
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* ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews'': One sketch is a parody of poetry readings that were sometimes delivered in lieu of a sermon, with a reading of the poem ''Abou Ben Adhem'' with multiple readers. It's all pretty standard except that Rowan Atkinson's Creator/RowanAtkinson's lines are completely unintelligible.
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* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': One sketch parodies ''The Epilogue'', with a cleric and a humanist who, instead of discussing the existence of God, attempt to decide the question by wrestling each other.
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* The most likely TropeMaker is Creator/TheBBC with ''The Epilogue'', which was first broadcast as radio programme in 1926 before appearing on TV, making this trope OlderThanTelevision.
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* The Argentinian humor program ''Series/ChaChaCha'' had a sketch called ''"Todos juntos en capilla"'' (double entendre in Spanish meaning both "All together in [a] chapel" and "All together in tenterhooks"). In it, an unnamed priest told the parables of the martyr Peperino Pómoro, whose stories were told with devotion even as they usually mentioned Peperino participating in some unsavory, dubious or lewd activity and being afterward pursued by their outraged followers. The stories were usually improvised, and the names of characters and places were related to celebrities and public people of the time. The Catholic Church was very critical of the sketch and it successfully pressured to get it out of the show.
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* The Argentinian humor program ''Series/ChaChaCha'' had a sketch called ''"Todos juntos en capilla"'' (double entendre in Spanish meaning both "All together in [a] chapel" and "All together in tenterhooks"). In it, an unnamed priest told the parables of the martyr Peperino Pómoro, whose stories were told with devotion even as they usually mentioned Peperino participating in some unsavory, dubious dubious, or lewd activity and being afterward pursued by their outraged followers. The stories were usually improvised, and the names of characters and places were related to celebrities and public people of the time. The Catholic Church was very critical of the sketch and it successfully pressured to get it out of the show.
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* ''WebVideo/OddityArchive'': One episode features a recreation of a network sign-off the for the fictional KLAK-13 network, which also includes a parody sermonette slot titled "Give Us This Day". The slot is hosted by Pastor George Needlesman of the Needmoney Church in Beverly Hills, CA.
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* ''WebVideo/OddityArchive'': One episode features a recreation of a network sign-off the for the fictional KLAK-13 network, which also includes a parody sermonette slot titled "Give Us This Day". The slot is hosted by Pastor George Needlesman of the Needmoney Church in Beverly Hills, CA.CA.
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A ForgottenTrope, largely tapering off in TheEighties and [[TheNineties Nineties]]. Often, when channels were finishing up for the night, they would show a short religious programme.
These segments were often produced in order to comply with regulatory mandates to provide a specified amount of broadcasting "in the public interest." They tended to consist of a speaker, usually a clergyperson, delivering a short sermon or reading straight to camera, although there were some variations in the format. Depending on the editorial bent of the channel in question, they could sometimes vary in tone and style from the most typical instances of a Christian minister reading from Literature/TheBible and go in a more philosophical or literary direction than a religious one.
Since the programmes often featured speakers unaccustomed to appearing on television, their style of delivery could sometimes be comically stiff or cringingly earnest, lending them an air of a KitschyLocalCommercial, but for religion rather than a discount carpet emporium. This made the format ripe for {{Parody}}.
!!Examples:
[[AC: Live-Action TV]]
* The most likely TropeMaker is Creator/TheBBC with ''The Epilogue'', which was first broadcast as radio programme in 1926 before appearing on TV, making this trope OlderThanTelevision.
* Creator/{{ITV}} left the regions to their own devices to produce these, resulting in many different examples across the network:
** Anglia Television: ''The Living Word''
** Grampian Television: ''Reflections''
** LWT: ''Sit Up and Listen''
** Creator/ThamesTelevision: ''Night Thoughts''
** STV: ''Late Call'', although other segments broadcast at different times of the day, such as ''Morning Call'' and ''Evening Call'', were also seen.
** TSW: ''Postscript'', ''Nightcall''
** TVS: ''Company.'' This varied from the usual format in that it featured two or three people discussing a theme around a kitchen table.
** Tyne Tees: ''Blessed Are They''
* Creator/{{RTE}}:
** ''A Prayer at Bedtime,'' which consisted of a short prayer being read over some stock footage.
** Varying slightly from the usual format is ''The Angelus'', a call to prayer to the Virgin Mary signalled by the tolling of a bell. Originally broadcast on radio, it's shown on television just before the main evening news at 6pm. In the past, screens would show whatever holy stock image was on hand, but in TheNineties this changed to short films showing people going about their business, only to stop what they're doing and turn their heads contemplatively to the middle distance. This particular format has become something of a meme and has been parodied in Website/YouTube videos. Over time, the images shown in the films have become more secular and abstract, to the point where they look more like BRoll.
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* Creator/TheBBC
** Radio 4 still has ''Thought for the Day'' incorporated into the ''Today'' programme, which features speakers from a wide variety of faiths.
** Radio 2 has a similar programme called ''Pause for Thought''.
!!InUniverse Examples
[[AC: Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews'': One sketch is a parody of poetry readings that were sometimes delivered in lieu of a sermon, with a reading of the poem ''Abou Ben Adhem'' with multiple readers. It's all pretty standard except that Rowan Atkinson's lines are completely unintelligble.
* ''Series/AScareAtBedtime'' on Creator/{{RTE}} directly parodies its namesake mentioned above by having two crass puppets tell each other horror stories.
* ''Series/ScotchAndWry'' saw Rikki Fulton roast ''Late Call'' into oblivion with [[TheEeyore the Reverend I.M. Jolly]].
*''Series/TheSmothersBrothersComedyHour'': Comedian David Steinberg would deliver parody sermonettes on the show. One of these had the risqué line "They literally grabbed the Jews by the Old Testament", which is widely considered to have been TheLastStraw that got the show cancelled.
* ''Series/SpittingImage'': One episode features a direct parody of Thames' ''Night Thoughts'' hosted by Ian Paisley.
* A Creator/SpikeMilligan [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khGOLk607H8 sketch]] featured the Reverend R. Sleeker discussing the subject of women in the clergy.
[[AC: Music]]
* ''Music/InsaneClownPosse'': Somewhat of a meta example. On ''Music/TheGreatMilenko'', the track "Hellalujah" has lots of religious themes about [[GreedyTelevangelist televangelism]]. The track even opens with the sound of a TV changing channels. So why is it here? Because it's at the near-end of the album, being track 13 of 16.
[[AC: Web Video]]
* ''WebVideo/OddityArchive'': One episode features a recreation of a network sign-off the for the fictional KLAK-13 network, which also includes a parody sermonette slot titled "Give Us This Day". The slot is hosted by Pastor George Needlesman of the Needmoney Church in Beverly Hills, CA.
A ForgottenTrope, largely tapering off in TheEighties and [[TheNineties Nineties]]. Often, when channels were finishing up for the night, they would show a short religious programme.
These segments were often produced in order to comply with regulatory mandates to provide a specified amount of broadcasting "in the public interest." They tended to consist of a speaker, usually a clergyperson, delivering a short sermon or reading straight to camera, although there were some variations in the format. Depending on the editorial bent of the channel in question, they could sometimes vary in tone and style from the most typical instances of a Christian minister reading from Literature/TheBible and go in a more philosophical or literary direction than a religious one.
Since the programmes often featured speakers unaccustomed to appearing on television, their style of delivery could sometimes be comically stiff or cringingly earnest, lending them an air of a KitschyLocalCommercial, but for religion rather than a discount carpet emporium. This made the format ripe for {{Parody}}.
!!Examples:
[[AC: Live-Action TV]]
* The most likely TropeMaker is Creator/TheBBC with ''The Epilogue'', which was first broadcast as radio programme in 1926 before appearing on TV, making this trope OlderThanTelevision.
* Creator/{{ITV}} left the regions to their own devices to produce these, resulting in many different examples across the network:
** Anglia Television: ''The Living Word''
** Grampian Television: ''Reflections''
** LWT: ''Sit Up and Listen''
** Creator/ThamesTelevision: ''Night Thoughts''
** STV: ''Late Call'', although other segments broadcast at different times of the day, such as ''Morning Call'' and ''Evening Call'', were also seen.
** TSW: ''Postscript'', ''Nightcall''
** TVS: ''Company.'' This varied from the usual format in that it featured two or three people discussing a theme around a kitchen table.
** Tyne Tees: ''Blessed Are They''
* Creator/{{RTE}}:
** ''A Prayer at Bedtime,'' which consisted of a short prayer being read over some stock footage.
** Varying slightly from the usual format is ''The Angelus'', a call to prayer to the Virgin Mary signalled by the tolling of a bell. Originally broadcast on radio, it's shown on television just before the main evening news at 6pm. In the past, screens would show whatever holy stock image was on hand, but in TheNineties this changed to short films showing people going about their business, only to stop what they're doing and turn their heads contemplatively to the middle distance. This particular format has become something of a meme and has been parodied in Website/YouTube videos. Over time, the images shown in the films have become more secular and abstract, to the point where they look more like BRoll.
[[AC:Radio]]
* Creator/TheBBC
** Radio 4 still has ''Thought for the Day'' incorporated into the ''Today'' programme, which features speakers from a wide variety of faiths.
** Radio 2 has a similar programme called ''Pause for Thought''.
!!InUniverse Examples
[[AC: Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews'': One sketch is a parody of poetry readings that were sometimes delivered in lieu of a sermon, with a reading of the poem ''Abou Ben Adhem'' with multiple readers. It's all pretty standard except that Rowan Atkinson's lines are completely unintelligble.
* ''Series/AScareAtBedtime'' on Creator/{{RTE}} directly parodies its namesake mentioned above by having two crass puppets tell each other horror stories.
* ''Series/ScotchAndWry'' saw Rikki Fulton roast ''Late Call'' into oblivion with [[TheEeyore the Reverend I.M. Jolly]].
*''Series/TheSmothersBrothersComedyHour'': Comedian David Steinberg would deliver parody sermonettes on the show. One of these had the risqué line "They literally grabbed the Jews by the Old Testament", which is widely considered to have been TheLastStraw that got the show cancelled.
* ''Series/SpittingImage'': One episode features a direct parody of Thames' ''Night Thoughts'' hosted by Ian Paisley.
* A Creator/SpikeMilligan [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khGOLk607H8 sketch]] featured the Reverend R. Sleeker discussing the subject of women in the clergy.
[[AC: Music]]
* ''Music/InsaneClownPosse'': Somewhat of a meta example. On ''Music/TheGreatMilenko'', the track "Hellalujah" has lots of religious themes about [[GreedyTelevangelist televangelism]]. The track even opens with the sound of a TV changing channels. So why is it here? Because it's at the near-end of the album, being track 13 of 16.
[[AC: Web Video]]
* ''WebVideo/OddityArchive'': One episode features a recreation of a network sign-off the for the fictional KLAK-13 network, which also includes a parody sermonette slot titled "Give Us This Day". The slot is hosted by Pastor George Needlesman of the Needmoney Church in Beverly Hills, CA.
