Jokes: Get Your Funny On!

... when a man runs up to them, crosses himself, then spreads his arms and closes his eyes.

"Excuse me," Jehovah says to Ra, "this will only take a second." He waves his hands, there's a flash of light, and a purring kitten goes scampering away from where the man had been.

"Other than obviously being the setup for a joke," says Ra, "what was that?"

Jehovah shrugs. "It got tough to keep track of my worshipers' beliefs and expectations, so I just take the names of their sects literally now. That guy was a Catholic."

"'Cat-holic?'" repeats Ra. "I think you're pronouncing that wrong."

Before Jehovah can respond, another man comes rushing up. Once again, there's a flash of light, and where the second man once stood, there's a tiny insect on a picket sign.

"Let me guess," says Ra, "that guy was a Protestant?"

"Now you're getting it!" Jehovah replies. His broadening smile quickly falls away, though, when he sees a man in a collared shirt approaching. "Ugh, hang on. This one will be more complicated."

Seconds later, there's a flash of light, and the third man is replaced by an angry-looking ghost... but before it can do anything, Jehovah pulls a stepladder out of the air and smashes it down on the ghost's head. The ghost stumbles in place then falls to floor, clearly knocked senseless.

"Alright," mutters Ra, "we're obviously at the punchline now... so what was that about?"