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[Contains explicit content] For a country founded on the separation of church and state, America sure does like to get religious. In this episode of Sounds Like America, comedians and host Roy Wood Jr. are your guiding light on a standup-filled journey of America's prominent religions. You'll hear about how to respond when someone catches the Holy Ghost, how a Muslim dad reacts to his daughter dating an atheist, a musical tribute to international Judaica, plus comedians of many backgrounds.

[Contains explicit content] Featuring sets from Alonzo Bodden, Jared Logan, Kara Klenk, Caleb Synan and Abi Harrison.

In this day and age if it were all heavy it wouldn’t be a comedy special, it would be a depression special, and Alonzo Bodden is very aware of this. That’s why he goes back and forth, from heavy to lightweight, because he knows we need a break from news in comedy. Police description might be “big, scary black guy” but he’s regularly on NPR. How scary could he be? He isn’t afraid to talk about topics like slavery, then cell phones, the #MeToo movement then millennials, Kanye and Taco Bell and a little bit about Israel too.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing that would ever make Alonzo Bodden, winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing, give up comedy. "That's the drug," he says. "When they laugh, it's like I'm a jazz musician, and they hear it, and they get it. It's the power to take the crowd wherever I want them to go. I love it when they laugh, especially when they relate through laughter. It's a beautiful thing. It also means I'm going to get paid, which is nice."

Alonzo Bodden returns with a hilarious look at the historical inaccuracies of the present and past from his unique comedic perspective in Historically Incorrect.

Last Comic Standing star Alonzo Bodden tackles the absurdity of pop culture and the decline of western civilization in this hilarious 2010 New York stand-up concert.