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The issue is that humour, like so much else, is entirely subjective. I’ve done stand up, as has my kid, and I really don’t think anything should off-limits. There’s a massive difference between being funny and being offensive, inasmuch as some humour relies on shock tactics (see Sadowitz etc), or saying something shocking that you might think but wouldn’t dare say (Jim Jeffries doing the most offensive joke I’ve ever heard, which almost made my kid bite the top of his beer bottle), for example.
Anyone can be offensive, but it takes skill to be offensive and funny. I’m not claiming to be skilled, my prophet margin gag was based purely on wordplay and I just happened to use the best-known prophet of all as the punchline. That wasn’t crass or lazy; I mean, if I’d put Ezekiel or whatever, would it have worked as well? I dunno.
Anyway, it’s kinda the holiday season, and I’ll shortly be repeating the best gag I’ve ever come up with. It’ll be worth the wait, and it doesn’t involve a single non-existent deity. I promise.