The Last Supper
2019 · 3m
Directed by Alison MacDonald
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, theatrical
Jesus' last supper retold as an atrociously hilarious comedy, with a grand total of zero lines from Christ himself and his disciples moonlighting as a PR team.
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Three minutes of silencing the most famous voice in Western history to let his terrified PR team fumble through damage control—now *that's* a premise that makes you sit up. MacDonald knows the joke isn't the blasphemy, it's the suffocating bureaucracy of spin, and she's committed enough to let the bit breathe without winking.
A formally clever inversion of devotional iconography that recalls the theatrical irreverence of earlier sketch-based satire, though the reliance on comedic momentum over sustained tonal architecture keeps it from achieving the weight its conceit deserves.
The masterstroke here is the decision to keep Christ utterly silent—in a three-minute comedy, that's restraint that reads as confidence, and it forces the entire comedic energy onto the disciples' increasingly panicked corporate-speak, which transforms what could've been a lazy blasphemy gag into something genuinely absurd and pointed.
Reviews
Every aspect of this film works in tandem to create a polished product that can be appreciated not just for its laughs but for the cinematic and storytelling mastery of its makers. 'The Last Supper' is the comedy you didn't know you needed!