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Was Jesus a Queer Black Female?
Breitbart News reports that Oscar-nominated Wicked star Cynthia Erivo will play the title role in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles this summer.
Of course she will, because the secular entertainment industry loves to provoke Christian audiences. It’s so edgy and brave, don’t ya know, to cast a black woman who identifies as “queer” as the Son of God.
Erivo previously sang in an all-female album version of Jesus Christ Superstar, titled She Is Risen, that was released in 2020. For that project she performed in the role of Mary Magdalene, while other female singers were cast as Jesus, Judas Iscariot, etc.
Is it too hopelessly Old School, too white, to point out that real historical figures should be played by performers who at least approximate the correct race and sex? Anne Boleyn, for example, should not be portrayed by a black woman, any more than Joan of Arc should be played by a man or Martin Luther King, Jr. should be played by a white man (imagine the howls of progressive outrage!). Taking woke liberties like this does a disservice to the show because the incongruous casting undermines the audience’s suspension of disbelief. But woke filmmakers don’t care about that because ideology trumps serving the audience.
In the case of Jesus, the incongruous casting has the added benefit of insulting Christians. The entertainment industry enjoys provoking and demonizing Christians because it is predominately Godless and because no one fears a Christian backlash.
I’m looking forward to a self-professed “queer” black woman playing the lead role in a musical about the Muslim prophet Muhammad, when the entertainment industry summons the balls to make one.
Tom Hanks, Bigot
Breitbart also reported that Oscar-winner Tom Hanks, whose name is almost always prefaced by “beloved actor,” appeared in a Saturday Night Live bit for the comedy show’s 50th anniversary on Sunday. The “beloved” star of Forrest Gump and Sleepless in Seattle played a racist Trump supporter.
The sketch featured Kenan Thompson as the host of a Black Jeopardy! game show, with comics Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan and Eddie Murphy as contestants. The skit was actually pretty funny, thanks to Murphy’s spot-on impression of Tracy Morgan (some of which seemed ad-libbed). But then some genius at SNL decided to cut Murphy’s time short and replace him with Tom Hanks for the last minute of the skit, for the sole purpose of smearing Trump-supporting Christians as inbred racists.
Hanks was reprising his role as Doug, the MAGA-hat wearing hick whose first appearance on Black Jeopardy! in 2016 found him agreeing with his fellow contestants about everything, except in the category “Lives That Matter.” This time he suggests that he make his own show, “White Jeopardy!”, to which Kenan Thompson responds, “We don’t need it. We don’t need it.”
At the close of the sketch, Thompson tries to shake hands with Hanks, who recoils because according to SNL, white MAGA folks don’t want to touch black people. Get it? They’re racist! Comedy gold!
Hanks was always a big Obama supporter but never publicly sank to the unhinged level of some frothing-at-the-mouth, profanity-spewing Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers like, say, Robert De Niro, so conservative moviegoers always cut him some slack. But this utterly unnecessary, unfunny, and bigoted SNL cameo has turned off a huge number of now-former Hanks fans, if social media responses are any indication. His allegiance to Left-wing Hollywood just cost him the “beloved” label.
Hollywood will be the last bastion of progressives to care that this kind of smug, ugly contempt for the Americans in flyover country was a huge factor in last November’s red wave, and a primary reason that Hollywood’s domestic box office has cratered and that awards show viewers have abandoned them. Their wealth and privilege will insulate them from the consequences for a little while longer, until they gradually realize that entertainment has decentralized and that independent production companies around the country are making money hand over fist by catering to the underserved American public that Hollywood spurned.
Black Jeopardy! #SNL50 pic.twitter.com/QFKKTRWeer
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) February 17, 2025
Seinfeld Doesn’t Care About Palestine
Fox News reports that comedian Jerry Seinfeld refused to play along with a pro-Palestinian activist over the weekend who tried to ambush the Jewish comic into potentially endorsing an antisemitic message.
Instagram user “Subway DJ” posted a video of himself on Sunday meeting Seinfeld outside Radio City Music Hall, where Seinfeld appeared for an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live.
In the video, the activist is seen asking for a selfie, to which Seinfeld politely obliges. “Subway DJ” then throws up a peace sign and says, “Free Palestine.” When Seinfeld gives no response, he asks, “Maybe?”
For context, Seinfeld has been known to have little patience for pro-Palestine hecklers at his comedy shows, who have targeted him for his open support for Israel. He revealed in May of last year that his visit to Israel following the October 7, 2023 massacre by Hamas savages was “the most powerful experience of my life.”
“I don’t care about Palestine,” Jerry tells “Subway DJ” in the video as he walks away.
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Bravo, Jerry. The Jew-hating supporters of Hamas – which is what pro-Palestinian activists and the vast majority of the so-called Palestinian people support – don’t care about Jews. Actually, it’s far worse than not caring – they want Jews exterminated. While accusing Israel of waging a genocide, their own chant to free Palestine “From the river to the sea” is an implicit call for the genocide of Jews like Seinfeld.
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Jerry Seinfeld’s relationship with Larry David will be the central beacon for Jerry appreciation for the foreseeable future.
I expect Jerry to be far more persuasive to Larry than vice versa.
Oh, I just cannot stand Larry David. He’s the kind of person I wish would just quietly go away. Makes my skin crawl a lot like Schumer does.
Jerry S seems OK.
SNL has played to their left wing base for decades. That is why they will never reach the comedy levels of the 70’s group. Find the Point Counter Point with Dan Aykroyd skewing Jane Curtin on abortion. That will never happen again. Wasn’t even interested in viewing the Hanks clip. The cowardice and bigotry of a confused female Jesus is just a Beelzebub wet dream. I agree, free the Philistines….. from themselves.
The Palestinians are rebranded Arabs.
They have nothing to do with and never have had any relation to the Philistines, an ancient Greek seafaring people.
That is the land of the Philistines, their hatred for Jews and wars with the Jews is historical fact.
The Romans named it “Philistine” as a slight toward the Jews who lived their, and as you pointed out, the word evolved to Palestine.
Jews (before closet-homosexual Arafat’s time) were sometimes called Palestinian Jews right after WWII.
I would say Goliath was a “slight” towards the Jews.
I think I saw Subway Jerry on Newsmax or RAV. He was sleeping under a blanket on a NYC subway platform.
Love the video of a Baltimore reporter slamming Trump’s claim that the city was rat-infested. She was there to prove otherwise… and then behind her, rats were running around.
This is nothing. Ever been to Guadalajara??? The Rats are as big as cats and they’re domesticated. They, at least, walk against the walls so not to take up sidewalk space. They also know not to go inside businesses… and no one cares. At the airport, there was a fire alarm about twenty feet high but the ceiling was ten feet higher than that. A RAT was sitting one it with people wondering how it got there. I figured a night employee put it up there.
Oh no… a memory from when I worked for two weeks at a Santa Fe horse racetrack. Me and one other man were the only Americans working there. I sleep in the grain room in a sleeping bag. The first night, I heard and felt something on my bag… I looked up and mice all over the room. I ended up sleeping out in the open. Oh… and two of the races were rigged per day… by the jockeys, but I didn’t have any money to bet on them. The Mexicans made a fortune.
You should’ve become buddies with the jockeys to get the inside tips. 🙂
The Norwegian rats in Indonesia are as big as cats too, and bold. The Indos don’t pay any attention to them and neither do the feral cats who lounge around in garbage heaps. I killed every one that every came into my “penthouse.” I’d chase them around and whack them with a metal pipe. Boy were they repulsive. At first I killed them with a machete but that was too messy. I’d have to clean nasty blood off the floor and when I missed with a whack, I would damage the nice wooden flooring.
“…….the secular entertainment industry loves to provoke Christian audiences.”
Quel dommage. Some semi-professional marginally talented black lesbian is going to play Jesus. Whatever shall we do? Cynthia Erivo is the bozo in this fake controversy. And the producers of this crap are hoping spark outrage among Christians.
So don’t fall for it. Don’t act like a dumbass permanently outraged progressive. Who gives a shit. Ignore it.
As for me I won’t be going to the “theatah” to see this irrelevant abortion. I don’t go to movies anymore anyway. And after I post this comment I won’t care anymore.
Why don’t they pick on Muslims and Mohammad? The Olympics mocking The Last Supper, a gay Jesus, a Black female Jesus, Mary Magdalene was his lover, on and on… and they get away with it.
Then you have a fake pOPE who never says anything when Muslims slaughter Christians, and recently, Jews. Even here, a Muslim runs over people in New Orleans, nothing. Dylan Roof shoots up a Black church and has a selfie with a Confederate Flag, now banned, The Dukes of Hazzard, banned, Statues torn down, and the attack on Whites. A Muslim shoots up a Gay nightclub… blame the guns. A Trans shoots up a school, nothing… blame the guns. A punk tries to assassinate Trump, no word on guns by the people who hate guns, want to ban them, but only those same millions were bummed he missed!!!
There is no price to be paid for mocking or attacking Christians
I always tell people not to give up their guns. We will need them someday.
Whenever I see something so appalling, which is becoming more common these days, I open up the Bible and read Romans 1.
“Professing to be wise, they have become fools.” v. 22
I DARE TOM HANKS TO WEAR THAT RED MAGA HAT ON THE STREET so he can see WHO the real haters are! They wouldn’t care if he was Tom Hanks, they’d still scream at him, throw something, even attack him! Would that change his mind? Nope… to brainwashed!
Excellent & humorous point.
I’d expect some of the liberals would understand Hank’s mutt&jeff routine, and laugh with him.
But as soon as one leftist, ignorant of the SNL skit, saw the MAGA hat, he’d trigger an enraged mob.
Hanks would try to explain, before drinks were thrown on him, with limited success.
Next he would run Forrest, run!
DeNiro. Hanks. Babs. I cannot name them all. SNL. I don’t care. I will not watch any of their dribble.
Their opinions have NO relevance in my world. MAGA!
Hollywood Sewer Mouth Jim Carrey appologised for his rude remark about Gun Owners after his movie THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE Bombed he is learning the meaning of OPEN MOUTH INSERT FOOT
The longer a celebrity gets fawning press, the more they believe their fawning press. That explains Hanks.
Californicate is spelled LGBTQXXX. If the Donner party ever knew what California woul become, they would have never attempted that trek.
Or they would have ordered ahead for lunch. 🙂
Hollywood is now the resident location to those for whom reality just cannot compete with their endless delusions ratified by others equally mentally warped.
I wonder how many of them would be immediately institutionalized if evaluated by real mental health professionals and were told that the fantasy is not reality. Bring on the medications as they would go berserk!!
The role of Jesus in the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar was written for a rock tenor voice. Unless Erivo can credibly sing tenor – a male register – the music will all need to be transposed. This will warp the timbre of all the pieces as imagined by the composer, and wreck the voicing of duets and ensembles.
But why stop there? How about a production of La Boheme in which Mimi is played by a “trans woman” with a nice deep male bass voice? Not what Puccini imagined for those soaring melodies, but hey, he’s a dead white guy so who cares?
Jeff Fenholt filled the role of Jesus Christ Superstar perfectly. He had a wonderful tenor voice. I met Jeff at the Rosemont Horizon, and he gave me a tape. He was a great Christian singer of hymns.
Crazies shouldn’t be allowed to plan their own lives, much less tell me how to live mine.
A proof of the efficacy of the Judaeo Christian ethic is the ruination of the lives of them that reject it and live morally twisted, reprobate philosophies.
I want to see Hollywood make a movie about a lesbian Amazon Mohammed.
Wait, you mean that all those statues aren’t a woman with a beard ? Who knew?