Strengthening the Members’ Sense of Humor Committee; or, How I Became a Mormon Humor Apologist Have you ever harbored suspicions there was something funny about Mormonism? Do you wake up nights with a sweaty feeling or dread that a mysterious church committee is keeping a file of your private antics to be laughed at from the rooftops on judgment day? Are you now aspiring or have you ever aspired to the calling of Ward Humorist? If you can answer yes to any of these questions, you may be one of the people from whom Ed has pilfered the ideas for this paper. He will examine the doctrine of humor as it has been taught in all dispensations and thereby prove true a now suppressed doctrine once taught by Brigham Young, who said: ‘I sometimes think God must enjoy humor, and that he won’t be strict in reckoning with a humorist.”

Edgar C. Snow