irreverence

“The world had beaten him down a bit, but he had a twinkle in his eye and a slight irreverence to the things that happened around him.”

But in an editorial in Tuesday's memorial edition, the paper's main shareholder said its spirit of ribald anti-religious irreverence was still very much alive.

A joke is a surprise, and irreverence is kind of a shortcut to that surprise.

People might be surprised you’re so close with your faith given the irreverence of your comedy.

Looking back, though, Kent thinks that such irreverence was already baked into how she first promoted the film herself.