←Recommendations of A Higher Power

Having caught a live reading of A Higher Power, I can once again report that Busser has a gift for outrageous scenarios, razor-sharp dialogue, inspired puns, and storytelling that seems gloriously dumb right up until you realize how smart it is. Equal parts hilarious and blasphemous, it's the kind of play that will have audiences laughing hysterically while probably offending at least a few others. Now, if someone could please convince Busser to write a full-length play, I'd be grateful.

Saw this play read at the Valdez Theatre Conference and it is SO MUCH FUN. I don't remember the last time I laughed so hard in one sitting. As someone with a rough relationship to Christianity, this comedy was very healing to see. And the puns? They keep coming and coming and coming. You've never seen Christ (or Chris?) quite like this. Bravo to John Busser!

This short is a treasure. Jesus, Peter, and Paul are imprisoned together, Jesus makes pot brownies to calm their nerves, and the entire play is a delight. I love the mix of Biblical and modern language ("Would you calm thy country ass down?"), and any audience would be helpless not to laugh along at their sheer delight and silly jokes as they get gigglier and gigglier. This play is my favorite combination of very smart and very silly.

What a fun piece! Some lovely word play in a scene which pokes rather gentle fun at Jesus and his disciples. Given the way religion is being weaponised by right wing politicians to divide people along tribal lines and brutalise vulnerable groups, such humour feels like an antidote to poison. Love it!

Brethren and sistren, prepare thyselves to meet Jesus, Peter, and Paul as thou've never seen them before. The gospel according to Busser is an hilarious concoction wherein our scribe takes biblical blasphemy and scriptural satire to new heights--or depths according to thy point of view--and serves it up in a potful of puns and askew allusions. It is, verily, a giggle fest, so if thou hast an appetite for wicked fun, then thou shouldst surely read it.

Put Monty Python, Mel Brooks, and Cheech and Chong together in a drunk tank, add a little New Testament, and bake... And I do mean bake. This is John Busser showing us that nothing is sacred, and what a blessing it is. Sacrilegious? Hey, if Sunday school was more like this, I'd still be a Christian going to confession: "Christ, was I stoned last night..."

What is a Busser play made of? "Faith, mostly" -- faith in his actors and audience to not collapse into giggles alongside Peter, Paul and Chris...Jesus and the "Gethsemane Giggle Grass". Fun!

I love plays that poke fun at religion. I was laughing so hard I almost fell out of my seat reading this. John has a real knack for comedy, and it shows.

John Busser has written a totally sacri-licious play, cleverly combining Bible jokes and drug humor. Whether you like either of those things, or not, you will soon find yourself giggling at all the silly and clever puns. This will have the audience in hysterics.

JOHN BUSSER’s “Higher Power” takes us back in time, puts us with the holiest of persons, in a place nobody would’ve expected, and makes it into a hilarious play. I highly recommend “A Higher Power”.