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Like John Byron, I have yet to see any episode of the History Channel miniseries \u201cThe Bible.\u201d But I found the time to watch Stephen Colbert\u2019s treatment of it on\u00a0The Colbert Report and you can appreciate the humor completely without having seen the miniseries. Here\u2019s a sample available on YouTube. Click through to watch the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[1140,1717,2001,2036,4660,4871,7482,10227,11865],"class_list":["post-13681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-humor","tag-bible","tag-channel","tag-colbert-report","tag-comedy","tag-history","tag-humor","tag-miniseries","tag-report","tag-stephen-colbert"],"yoast_head":"\n
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