[I keep responding and the posts disappear -- very frustrating!]
anyway...I heard about that show! There's a public radio show called "Wait Wait Don't tell me" which is basically a news-based quiz show. There's a panel in the studio, humor writers, cartoonists, comedians, etc. and people call in. One of their gigs is that they have 3 scenarios for the audience to decide which is the real one. Two are made up. One day it was about Muslim based sitcoms. The real one was more bizarre than the ones they made up. Very funny.

What you say about humor is right on -- if you can laugh about yourself, that means you can see yourself objectively, warts and all.

My parents' church shares space with a Jewish synagogue. That seems to be happening more and more -- I know of a couple like that around here too.