God is a tough audience
Frank Skinner has written a book of prayers, to be published in April.
In the blurb for A Comedian’s Prayer Book, the comic jokes that ‘God is a tough audience’ for his invocations, ‘but at least you don’t have to explain the references.’
Publisher Hodder Faith say that Skinner ‘has tried to retain the bare candour of the rehearsal-room improvisation’ in the prayers, which address ‘his convictions, his questions, his fears, his doubts, his elations’.
‘Hell, Judgement, atheism, money, faith and the X-Men all feature,’ the blurb goes on. adding: ’It s a bit like reading the Bible, except you only get one side of the conversation, and all the jokes are left in.’