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Betty Bowers
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—America's Best Christian explaining Biblical marriage[3] |
Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian is a satirical character portrayed by Canadian comedian Deven Green and conceived by Andrew Bradley.[4] Especially since her YouTube debut in 2008,[5] she has become quite influential on the internet, and has received overwhelmingly positive feedback.[6] As well as her YouTube channel, Bowers has featured in her own TV show, Betty Bowers: America's Best Christian, which ran from 2008 to 2013 and featured Green as Bowers, as well as her husband Joel Bryant as Jesus.[7] She is also an important member of the Landover Baptist Church and its most reliable financial supporter.[8]
Bowers is a haughty, prim, conservative American church lady who lampoons and deconstructs many aspects of modern American Christianity . Her mannerisms, exaggerated diction and withering admonishments have been quite a turn-on for some of her fans, who have expressed a desire for her to "punish" them.[9]
Her video, "Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marriage to Everyone Else", skewers the phrase "traditional marriage" through Bible-drawn examples of incest, polygamy, child brides, rapist marriages, etc.[3][9] Other targets of her satire include (but are not limited to) Sarah Palin,[5] the GOP,[10] religious anti-abortion arguments,[11] the War on Christmas,[12] the Westboro Baptist Church,[13] The United States as a Christian nation,[14] Vladimir Putin,[15] prayer,[16] religious freedom,[17] Donald Trump,[18][19] guns and the NRA,[20][21] patriotism[22][23] and political snarl words.[24] She also made a comedic remix of two homophobes having hilarious breakdowns over same-sex marriage.[25]
Many of Betty's opinions and pieces of advice were published in the form of a book, What Would Jesus Betty Do?, in 2002.[26] In an interview, Bowers explains that the book "picks up where the two previous testaments that the Lord scribbled left off — only mine, of course, in a radical departure from the Lord's literary efforts, actually makes sense, tries to be consistent and has a central character who wears expensive shoes."[27]
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- ↑ Genesis 20:12
- ↑ Genesis 16:3
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marriage to Everyone Else". YouTube.
- ↑ "Betty Bowers: America's Best Christian (2008)". Internet Movie Database.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Sarah Palin Debates America's Best Christian". YouTube.
- ↑ Condran, Ed (June 22, 2015). "Comic-Musician Deven Green Bringing Lounge Act To Twain House". Hartford Courant.
- ↑ "Betty Bowers: America's Best Christian". Internet Movie Database.
- ↑ "Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian™". Landover Baptist Church.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Coviello, Will (November 6, 2017). "Deven Green and Varla Jean Merman perform at Cafe Istanbul Nov. 9-10". Gambit Weekly.
- ↑ Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Join the Party!". YouTube.
- ↑ Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Betty Bowers Explains Abortion to Everyone Else". YouTube.
- ↑ Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "The War on Christmas". YouTube.
- ↑ Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Calling (Out) Westboro Baptist Church". YouTube.
- ↑ Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "America as a Christian Nation". YouTube.
- ↑ Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Calling Out Vladimir Putin On Gay Olympics". YouTube.
- ↑ Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "The DOs and DON'Ts of PRAYER". YouTube."
- ↑ Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Betty Explains Religious Freedom". YouTube.
- ↑ Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Trumping Trump". YouTube.
- ↑ Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "America's Pharisees For Trump". YouTube.
- ↑ Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "The Gun Industry's Killing in Killing". YouTube.
- ↑ Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "GUNS: Both Sides Now". YouTube.
- ↑ Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Are You a Patriot?". YouTube.
- ↑ Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "10 Things About Patriotism". YouTube.
- ↑ Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Speak English? YOU FIRST!". YouTube.
- ↑ Peeples, Jase (July 4, 2015). "Christian Woman Records Herself Losing it Over Marriage Equality, Gets Remixed". The Advocate.
- ↑ Bradley, Paul. "What Would Betty Do?: How to Succeed at the Expense of Others in this World-and the Next". Amazon.
- ↑ Sawyer, Diane (March, 2002). "In Surprise Gesture, God Damns ABC's Diane Sawyer Straight To Hell!". Landover Baptist Church.