I’m Funnier Since I Converted — Jeremy McLellan

via https://youtu.be/1G-Hzi3nGQI I think so — Jeremy McLellan I don’t know It says in the Koran that he would laugh and people could see the back of his teeth. So I assume he had a good sense of humour. I think he would have come to my shows. A year later, he was received into the Catholic faith. Behind the quick-fire wit is a deeply serious and intelligent individual whose journey into the Catholic Church has been several years in the making. Raised in a conservative Presbyterian household in Charleston, South Carolina, he became intellectually convinced of the truth of Catholicism after reading about the Church while at college. On graduating, he worked for three years with adults with learning disabilities at a L’Arche Catholic community in Chicago, and toyed with the idea of conversion; but it was only when he went home and began to do stand-up that he took the leap of faith. The catalyst was his growing Muslim fan base, which threw up questions that caused him to think more deeply about life. The “gift” of working with disabled people and learning to “enter into their world” prepared him for the stage, he says, by teaching him to “make peace with uncertainty”. I am a pretty conservative Catholic