Shawn Rapier - Latter-day Night Live

[lunawater10]

(snicker) whenever i get bored with a talk im thing of you... Shawn Rapier :)

[AdmitOneThousand]

This is hilarious!

[brendonbrandao]

Hahaha

[thedisneygirl1234]

Just when you think it's gonna end he goes "If you look up the word comedy in the dictionary"

Lol this whole thing is PERFECT! I laughed SO hard.

[BIGJOHNTON80]

yup ya gotta got to SM's to get this..... which is why i dont!! :)

[GlennRoxWyo]

Soooooooo acurate

[TheMsautobodyman]

I can relate to this i had to give a talk in sacrament

[fanceyplant101]

22 people don't know what it is to laugh. or they are not mormons

[justaminuto]

Not true that only LDS get this. A lot of other churches have almost the exact kind of "testimony night" format. And same cliches too. Very funny.

[Wade2st]

@justaminuto Ah, thanks for the insight. I can see that making sense too as we're all human and have similar ways of expressing things. That's cool.

[justaminuto]

Not true that only LDS get this. A lot of other churches have almost the exact kind of "testimony night" format. Very funny.

[Rico1ness]

soo true you really cant

but none the less extremly funny

[Rico1ness]

OMGosh ur soo frekin true!!

[Ecoshan]

Why is this so funny to everyone he is just talking!?!?!?!?!

[7wiiskate]

@Ecoshan he must be at a mormon comedy club cause they all seem 2relate, i kind of get it but doesnt get me those laughs , btw i am not mormon

[SportUTE97]

21 people have never attended LDS Sacrament Meeting

[setsuai]

*sniff* I promised myself I wouldn't get emotional.. *sob*

[crazy456eyes]

lol i used to be Mormon and this is what nearly every "testimony" is like... Everyone says the same things lol

[tinallama11]

This is exactly how every single member starts their talks. OMGOSH.

[paul162007]

i swear all mormons are funny!

[Vicymorgan]

Scary how much you sound just like my bishop

[Signkae1]

OH THANKS ALOT Shawn Rapier! now I can't listen to another talk without laughing out loud!

[zedwardson]

Very funny, but if your not a church member, it would be hard to explain why it is funny, but I will give it a try.

In the LDS chuch (who members are Mormons) we do not have a preacher, instead church members are asked to give talks.

Many talks start off with "Good morning, brothers and sisters, For those who do not know me, I am _____, and I am happy to share this talk today, I have to admit, I was nervous when I was...

LDS people have hear that twice a meeting every Sunday for years.

[swordofisis]

@zedwardson THANK YOU. I was clueless as to why the laughtrack seems to be malfunctioning!

[steffyb528]

I don't get it.

[AltairaMJ]

People, you have to stop looking so deep into this. It's simply a funny thing. Laugh! and if you don't get it, your probably not Mormon or not baptized yet.

[nightshadow73]

I love this DVD. Shawn's spoof of the opening of ANY talk in sacrament was hysterical.

[Zygotguy]

Saxophone dude: that is SO true! Every bad comment people make about is really only proving us right. Everything they say can be countered, and most of the time even with a bible or BoM verse hah

[ThePointOfLifeIs]

so funny becasue this happens every sundy, except for fast sunday lol

[kid4life83]

So hilarious...so this is actually a dvd? How come nobodies mentioned this to me!!! lol

[ShinjiAndrew]

so true. the talks seem so rehearsed.

[Jayleight1]

HAHAHAHAHA... too true

[MrZepron2112]

I was lds for 40 years and this is exactly what happens when members give a talk. LOL!!!

[THEalexragonTV]

bahahahaha.

"good evening brothers and sisters"

hahaha its a mormon thing you wouldnt understand(:

[JasonKulesza]

Only a Mormon would get this comedy from someone who speaks in church , everyone else is gonna be like, how is this funnY?

[vampirekittys]

Hahaha! So mormon :)

Love it!

"for those of you who don't know me..."

you know we've all said it. lol

[PaperbackWizard]

I always say it, 'cause I just can't shake the feeling that it's rude not to. *chuckles*

[howsdave]

If you're not mormon you're not gonna get these jokes. Frikin hilarious for those of us who've seen this routine in sacrament meeting.

[JohnRhysMusician]

This had me cracking up. I never knew Latter-day Night Live was funny.

[zerojoy]

why is this funny?

[fohnjrusciante]

it isn't

[JasonKulesza]

Its how mormons act and alot of things they say when they stand up to speak.

[Samhobbit]

That was great.But I love how the guy next to the girl who's cracking up at 1:55-56 has The Beatles "Abey Road" on his shirt. He is mad of win.

[HamsterPants522]

We beleive that there is one church that will return us to live with Christ.

Why do you suppose people are so offended by that idea? It's because they don't want to feel any implication that they may be wrong about what they are doing or believing in. I can understand that, but as history has displayed before, alot of people take their offense too far.

[ILuvClassicalMusic13]

HamsterPants speaks the truth yalls

[HamsterPants522]

Thank you, it's nice to be heard once in a while.

[robanah]

Oh this is sooooo funny!!!! Cliche and funny

[Gryphex]

This is so typical! I've noticed this so often! Almost everyone starts their talks the exact same way. AHH!!! But it's funny. :)

[jules4b]

FUNNY, but only a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints can really get it after listening to many Sacrament Meeting talks.

[Wade2st]

@jules4b And I loved it too. I just a minute ago got to be aware that LDS members have comedy videos online and this is my second so far. This brother had me laughin' hard too. :D. Southern states LDS representin'!

[saxaphonedude]

First of, the missionary program is really good the way it is.

Secondly, the temple garments serves as a reminder to our promises with God

Thirdly, so what if jospeh Smith was a freemason

Fourthly, the blacks and priesthood is interesting, it actaully never was doctrine, only practice, and there were some pre 1978 blacks who had it, it was stopped for a couple of reasons, i wouldbe happy to discuss this in a message.

and yes i haved researched, but every claim against the church has a answer

[saxaphonedude]

hmm, what do you mean by absurd?? i am a convert and the reason i started in the LDS church was it was the most logical one

[burpsrus]

I know exactly what you mean!! I am a convert too and the reason I joined is because it was logical to me. But, I also felt in my heart that it was right. That is how I make decisions for the most part. The logic and the feelings have to agree.

[mmpjuly291]

I dont get it. He just talked, and people laughed. Really?

[saxaphonedude]

he is doing of parady of how people give talks, most LDS would pick out what he is doing

[insectgirl908]

DICTIONARY!!!! Almost EVERY talk starts like that lolz!!!

[aliceluvzjazzcullen4]

Lol! XD

[BrsPorter]

Haha that's exactly how practically EVERY talk starts at church! :) Good job, Shawn Rapier!

[insectgirl908]

EVERY ONE even in Primary

[bubblebubbleblip]

you go girl! this guy is a jerk and you handle him like a pro!

[ksaf84]

what's the name of our church again. Oh yeah, the Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-Day Saints. unless their are two Jesus Christs i think our church name proves your uneducated opinions wrong.

[x0chrystinax0]

alright....coming from a mormon since she was born....

Christian means you believe in Jesus, that covers a lot of religions

and no we dont believe we're perfect, we stress that no one is perfect

[nanax32008]

Nothing better than laughing at ourselves - - - This is great!

[sweeterific]

LOL! these jokes would be alot funnier to mormons, its like religious inside jokes

[Purplerain1055]

Not to be rude, but his laugh bugs me... brian Regan is a really good comic, not LDS (for as far as I know) but he is really good, and does not swear. (other than that he says G-O-D sometimes, and that he uses the "H' word, but not like.... go to H!

[bmflix]

He seems so nervous for a comic. I don't get it.

[FlamingHaggis]

That's the joke... He's doing that "hey I'm nervous giving a talk in church" that we all get sometimes.

[alvhildt]

@FlamingHaggis LOL i didnt get it untill i read your comment! now its hilarious though!!!

[lmordro]

This was ok, not the greatest, but ok. I got some of the joke. What Shawn was trying to do was talk as though he was "giving a talk" in church. Many times women who give talks apologize in advance for getting emotional. There were other things mentioned, I probably just didn't get it.

[GrooveMachine12]

I don't think you get it. Probably cause you haven't been to church in a long time. But it is actually funny, if you pay attention to anyones talk. Ever. They all sound like that. Wonderful inside joke ;)

[jwatc33]

How is this funny? im mormon and i think this is stupid!! I mean im in active and i know you can have good comedy with out sex or swearing, but this guy sucked, im sorry

[karmaloni]

rofl that was awesome

[deelerofdeath]

ROFL!!!! Comedy done LDS style. Love it!

[lightsabersandkeybla]

im am mormon sooo funny own it

[musiclovr1]

HAHAHAHA!!!! this is how MOST talks go in LDS world

[YaDibaritone10]

Haha this was soo great, i love our inside jokes

everyone who has been to sacrament

meeting knows how TRUE this is!!!!

[hiflip57]

"PERFECT!!!!"

[tctightee]

haha this is so funny because it is soooooo true.

[stephanyakers]

totally funny! i love all the jokes he told. its an inside mormon joke and its great that i can laugh at myself!

[ahilkindarox]

hehe i love it! so funny!!!! 'but when i started preparing these jokes, i realized i need them more than any of you do' LOL

[Bobysue1234]

Hooray for inside Mormon jokes! Lol. If you're gonna say you don't get this, you must not be a member! Hee hee.

This rocked because, personally, I think I've heard people start their talks like this about a thousand times...

[kristinalovestosing]

I totally thought this was funny. But I guess that makes sense because I am Mormon. I love that we too can laugh at ourselves.

[FastEddie11111]

The flavor of Saturday Night Live to the tune of Mormonism? I think not.

[FlamingHaggis]

Latter-day Night Live is the name of the DVD. I don't think it means they are trying to emulate SNL which continues to get trashier and smuttier.

[factorandrew]

Absolutely hilarious! Just take the opening of a talk you're going to give next Sunday, replace all the proper nouns with something else, and you've got brilliant comedy. Seems to me that most comedy is done in this manner anyway. SPLENDID!

[mysterme17]

You really have to be mormon to get ANY of it.

[ArmiesOfHelamen]

man, Affordablevideo, You just don't get it do you? The reason we think this is funny, and why the audience is cracking up, and anyone who is LDS would surely find this funny is because this is Exactly like how a normal talk is given by many people in the church. It's a mormon thing. It's basically an Inside Joke to all Mormons. You'd have to be there to get it, or in this case, be one.

[affordablevideo]

If this what mormons thinks funny thats says a lot about their religon. It show they don't know what they are preaching. This guy did nothing or say anything close to being funny and the crowd is going nuts over him.

[psmith15243]

I'm going to assume you aren't LDS.

He's making fun of giving a talk in church. You're called by the bishop to give a talk in front of your ward on a given subject, and he's doing his bit in that style. 99% of these talks have some of the elements in this routine like, "If you look up ___ in the dictionary" and "for those of you who don't know me."

It is quite clever, at least to those who get the joke, and I don't see how it could be interpreted as Mormons not knowing about our religion at all.

[ArmiesOfHelamen]

man, Affordablevideo, You just don't get it do you? The reason we think this is funny, and why the audience is cracking up, and anyone who is LDS would surely find this funny is because this is Exactly like how a normal talk is given by many people in the church. It's a mormon thing. It's basically an Inside Joke to all Mormons. You'd have to be there to get it, or in this case, be one.

[affordablevideo]

If this what mormons thinks funny thats says a lot about their religon. It show they don't know what they are preaching. This guy did nothing or say anything close to being funny and the crowd is going nuts over him.

[wolfwood617]

actually it doesn't say anything about our religion at all. it does say something about our culture though. two completely different things. but if you're not mormon you probably wouldn't understand the humour. its like an inside joke.

[Alertafifalwonder]

So true! I love it!

[singjosingsing]

Wow, oh wow, is that true to our culture or WHAT????!!!! My husband and I are ROFL!!!

[boardgabe]

It's funny because it's true.

[GageEndal]

Wow, this is really only going to be funny to Mormons ;p Non members just won't get it.

[jdpotc123]

i have the dvd.. and i watch it like all the time its awsome!!

[Nepthu]

This isn't that funny, but I didn't realize how universal the talks were at the local ward--especially the last bit about looking something up in the dictionary. Are people really that unoriginal in their talks? lol

[SeadartVSG]

It's not funny it's sad.

[FlamingHaggis]

Actually it's hilarious and wonderful at the same time. This little clip illustrates one of the most amazing aspects of the LDS church - the participation of average folks in its services and operation. There is no paid clergy. No paid choir. No paid speakers. Hence, yes we get a lot of talks/sermons from average members who often struggle to get their point across. But I'd take 100 sermons from Joe Average Member over any one from a paid preacher.

[millball]

@FlamingHaggis you'd be better taking 1 christian gospel sermon in a church than a 1,000,000 LDS sermons to be frank.

[FlamingHaggis]

@millball that's the kind of thing that people say when they don't want to invest any intellectual (let alone spiritual) energy in a question. Your preferred "one gospel sermon" could mean absolutely anything. Would a Babtist sermon be equally beneficial to a Lutheron sermon? How about the "non-denominational Christian" church down the road that preaches "Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die." You need to be more specific.

[millball]

@FlamingHaggis WELL... it was a bait comment. I'm glad i've caught somebody :P Firstly, mormons arent christian. Their intentions may be swell, heck, i've spoke with quite a few mormons and they are dead on people, just misled... like a lot of people in this crazy world.

[FlamingHaggis]

@millball You may have caught me in your bait comment, but you can't just dodge my question. You said, "you'd be better taking 1 christian gospel sermon in a church than a 1,000,000 LDS sermons." and I replied, "one gospel sermon could mean anything". So tell us... whose sermon is good enough for you? Episcopalian? Presbyterian? Unitarian Universalist? Show me your 1,000,000 Christian sermons and I'll show you 1,000,000 different and conflicting belief systems. So your god is a god of chaos...?

[millball]

@FlamingHaggis A sermon that presents the truth. Its irrelevant what "denomination" -man's idea because they get their own silly ideas about how things should be done when its all there in the bible- The FACT OF THE MATTER is that mormon 'restored' gospel (the gospel never needed restoring to start off with so..) is lies. Does that answer your question?

[FlamingHaggis]

@millball You say that you're happy with any denomination that "presents the truth". Now we're getting somewhere. So the next question is, who determines what's truth? You? When every Christian denomination teaches something different from every other denomination, can it all be "true"? It's the same question Joseph Smith asked 190 years ago, "Who of all these parties are right; or, are they all wrong together? If any one of them be aright, which is it, and how shall I know it?"

[millball]

@FlamingHaggis Short and sweet FH, Psalm 100:5 "For the LORD [is] good; his mercy [is] everlasting; and his truth [endureth] to all generations." AMEN.

John 17:17 - "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." AMEN

You see FH, it's not a matter of what a man says, its what the LORD has said in the BIBLE. I don't want to hear any more craic about denomination this denomination that. Yes, i agree there are many churches out there who have some dodgy practice & teachings BUT i'm not in

[FlamingHaggis]

@millball Actually we agree... it's not what man says but what God says that matters. Really the only difference between you and me is that you think He stopped talking around 100 AD and I figure He still has more to say. Seems like if there ever was a time when we need to hear God's voice it's now -- with Islamo-fascism, AIDS, Internet filth, gay marriage, drugs, etc. In Old Testament times He took great interest in the minutia of the lives of the Israelites. Wouldn't He do the same for us?

[millball]

@FH ok, we're getting somewhere.. Hebrews 1:1-2 "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;" And I know God has said all we need to live a christian life amongst the darkness. 2 Tim 3:16 "All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for instruction in rightousness

[KaelaCarver]

@FlamingHaggis - hmm... yet in the old testament god was evil, and made his existence very obvious. I wonder why he's so damn different today...?

[AltairaMJ]

@millball I'm sorry, but just correcting you here. We are christian. The name of the church is The Church Of Jesus CHRIST Of Latter-Day Saints.It's ok, it's a common misconception.

[MartellAl]

Oh man! That was perfect!

[DFPUR]

is the show really called latter-day night live? is it like a mormon comedy or what?

[jojesaky16]

yes- they had a bunch of lds comedians come in to have a show, and they called it Latter Day Night Live, because LDS is "Latter Day Saints"

[leachimeel]

Its like WORD FOR WORD

[hyperteener]

that was so mormon!

[xlnc1706]

HAHAHA!! Its funny cuz it's true!!!

[projecrunway]

so true happens every week in sacrament meeting or a fireside, so funny, pretty sure its one of those mormon inside jokes hehe

[Kangakool]

So... true...

[flakeyblakee]

Go Gene Parmesan!! You are a total crack up. --Annyong

[AarmOZ]

OMG!!!! Only a lds member could truly understand this.... freakin' hilarious.

[TunnelRat367]

you know what I love, NO SWEARING IN THE RESPONSES!!!

Cause only members would watch member comedians!! I love this!! lol

[byucougarsfan80]

hahaha ur right on a lds member could truely understand this bcuz i was watching this and one of my friends who isnt a member couldnt figure out why i was laughing

[johnPhilos]

AarmOZ,

Exmembers must find it funny too. I found a link to this video in the yahoo exmormon group.

[aeijae80]

on the money

[chipmanl]

lol! that is wayyy too funny!

[GodoftheGeeks]

I absolutley agree lol

[quinnylou79]

You rock Shawn, or whatever your name is!

[Normizzle23]

Seems a lot more like a RS meeting to me.

[Ateleses]

Awesome!

[galdamez3]

A perfect rendition of most last-minute preparation talks! LOL. I'm no comedian, but if I were up there I would've turned around in the middle, put some eye drops in my eyes, turn back around, and start the whole "I know without a shadow of a doubt..." speech.

[asisproperty]

Awesome! You rock Shawn.

[0mgwhat]

lol bua hahahahaha. sounds like the last talk I gave.

[srapier]

Man, you are right. I really am funny...

[spazzymcsam]

the thing that is so funny is that this is exacly what happens every sunday! haaahaha... "u know when the producer first called me and asked me to do this comedy..(give this talk hehe)"

[IVIozartsGhost]

Funny, maybe I'll try this out next Sunday..

[Lacinda1]

I am rolling on the floor. This is great. Funny!