Who said "What if Jesus was crucified in a chair? Would christians

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wear little chairs around their necks? Would churches have chairs on their steeples?"
Was it Dave Chappell?

[sffreeways]

1. It was the smoker guy

that sings that song "I'm an asshole". White guy, very thin. Can't think of his name. He does the bit about hating France too.

The joke was if Jesus had been put to death by electric chair would Catholics would wear little electric chairs around their necks ?

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2. Dennis Leary?

????

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3. He's thin and bald.

And I beleive that he had a heart attack, came back and used that experience in his act.

[meow2u3]

6. I say if Bush had Jesus executed by lethal injection....

...Cathloics, including Yours Truly, would wear syringes on a chain.

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4. I'm pretty sure it was Lenny Bruce.

Did you google?

[maveric]

5. No. He said this about 10 years ago.

Robert Schimmel

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9. and you are correct

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7. It was indeed Lenny Bruce (see "How To Talk Dirty and Influence People")

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8. "Jesus Christ was killed by the state,...

which means if Jesus Christ come back to America today and bugged the wrong people, they'd give Jesus the electric chair. And all of us Christians be walking around with big chairs around our neck."

-- Dick Gregory

This is from 2002, but I could swear I heard him say something very much like it back around '68. :shrug:

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/about.aspx?id=13338

[gumby]

10. lenny bruce

"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/lenny_bruce/

I've got a longer version, but couldn't verify.