FROM PRE-PUBLICATION REVIEWS OF COMEDY AND PREACHING Comedy and Preaching "At last. A book on preaching that takes comedy seriously! This isn't about dressing up tired sermons with clever jokes and anecdotes. Rather, it teaches us to preach with humor and with hope under the smiling gaze of God." Richard F. Ward Iliff School of Theology "Webb does a wonderful job of finding the fun in post-modernity! He gives legs to the popular (and abstract) notion of 'celebration' in preaching. Here, finally, a compelling picture of and practical advice about what celebration in preaching looks like." Jana Childers San Francisco Theological Seminary ". . . so well grounded theologically and exegetically that the tragi-comic aspects of life and faith can be sounded forth from the pulpit no longer confined, as one neo-orthodox critic once suggested, to an "echo in the vestibule." Evans E. Crawford Howard University Divinity School "Illuminating. Creative. Well helps the preacher develop comic sermons that are biblically faithful by guiding one to interrelate with the text and not just reiterate it. The section on how and why to preach without notes is alone worth the price of the book." Doug Adams Pacific School of Religion "A superb book. What Joseph Webb gives us is a complete treatment of comedy and preaching; he has attacked the subject from every perspective. This work is a joy." Richard Lischer Duke Divinity School