Pope Francis hosted Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and more than 100 other comedians at the Vatican on Friday to celebrate laughter.
Pope Francis meets with comedians including Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert at the Apostolic Palace on June 14, 2024 in Vatican City, Vatican.“You can also laugh at God, of course, and that’s not blasphemy, it can be done without offending the religious feelings of believers,” he said.
The meeting came hours before the Pope was set to attend the famed Group of Seven Summit in Italy’s southeastern region of Apulia. Francis is the first pope to address the summit dating back to when it was first held in 1975. “In the midst of so much gloomy news, you denounce abuses of power, you give voice to forgotten situations, you highlight abuses, you point out inappropriate behavior,” Francis said,The Pope met with many of the attendees one-one-one as well, speaking with them in Italian, regardless of their fluency. “Well it was brief, he spoke in Italian, so I’m not quite sure what was said,” O’Brien jokingly told the BBC.
“A lot of these other American comedians have been my friends for years, we’re all looking at each other thinking ‘something’s wrong,'” he said. We’re in this beautiful space in the Vatican and for some reason they let comedians in, which is always a mistake.
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