Cincinnati Art Museum Cancels Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic Exhibit
December 10th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
studying fine art at Croydon Art College, [he] had to create a performance piece based on a book. He chose the Bible. The piece began with Fielding hanging from a crucifix, and suitably sombre music playing. Then he leapt off the cross to “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and squirted holy water at his fellow students from a water pistol. “Everyone thought it was the funniest thing ever,” he says, with chirpy honesty rather than arrogance, “so I thought maybe I should do some stand-up. I did my first three gigs in character as Jesus, because I didn’t know whether I’d be funny as Noel. Then I thought, ‘Jesus is a pretty powerful character, how am I going to follow that?’”
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