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Part I: We Are All Witnesses

Actress Yvette Nicole Brown from the NBC comedy "Community" (not "The Help") and "View" co-host Sherri Shepherd

Sunday, on "Watch What Happens Live" with gorgeous host Andy Cohen, funny lady Sherri Shepherd admitted, "I've been to jail. For traffic tickets. I was a Jehovah's Witness. I thought Armageddon was coming."

There is nothing more annoying than the renegade relative who shows up for a gathering unexpectedly (or early) and the rest of the family holds its breath waiting to be overcome by warm but incessant waves of shame.  The worst part about this relative is that in their blind ignorance, they reckon they are perfect exactly the way they are, frontal gold tooth and all.  For the Christian, the third cousin who makes us cringe is the Jehovah’s Witness.

Jehovah’s Witnesses are strange.  There is no other group resembling the Christian that is stranger.  They make the Amish seem normal.

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