LDS (MORMON) Humor

This PowerPoint investigates some of the stereotypes that are prevalent in Mormon culture and Mormon humor.

Patty Perfect lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she is married and has ten children. She’s a stay-at-home mom who gets up every morning around 5:30 AM, and reads nine chapters of the scriptures. She then jogs twelve miles, but makes it back home in time to make a hearty, healthy breakfast and oversee the practicing of musical instruments by her children.

Peter Priesthood is from Provo, Utah and is married to his high-school sweetheart. They have eight children and his wife is pregnant. He is the 1stcounselor in the Bishopric and a seminary teacher. During his lunch hour, and after work each day, Peter makes a number of welfare visits.

One of the best examples of recent Mormon humor came from a Deseret News story about General David Petraeus’s speech at BYU (3-26-2010). Here are some of the most succinct—and therefore the funniest—of his “Top Ten Reasons that BYU grads make good soldiers.

They have already been on many a mission.

Army chow is no problem for folks accustomed to eating green Jell-o and shredded carrots.

It’s no problem if they don’t know someone’s rank because they can always just say “Brother or Sister so-and-so.”

They never go AWOL—They just call it being “less active.”

They will seize any objective swiftly if you tell them refreshments will be served.

They always have a year’s supply of provisions on hand.

They are the world’s most reliable designated drivers.

Don and Alleen Nilsen “Humor Across the Academic Disciplines” PowerPoints:

https://www.public.asu.edu/~dnilsen/