Meet the comedians behind “Atheist Mingle”

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Luke Mones and Delaney Yeager in “Atheist Mingle.” (Courtesy of Luke Mones and Delaney Yeager.)

Chris Stedman | Dec 12, 2013

Christian dating website ChristianMingle.com has been the butt of many, many jokes over the years. (Just one example: the “Gay Christian Mingle“ parody video.) In spite of that—or perhaps in part because of it—the website is also extremely active.

But what about atheists looking for love? It seems there are a few atheist dating websites, though after a quick glance it’s difficult to tell how active they actually are. And while apparently atheists receive more responses than theists on dating website OkCupid, as of now there is nothing quite like an atheist version of Christian Mingle.

Perhaps inspired by this fact, two up-and-coming comedians decided to imagine what an atheist dating website success story might look like.

Delaney Yeager and Luke Mones are members of Skootch Comedy, a sketch comedy group based in New York City, alongside Jon Comulada, Corey Dome, and Steven Tooke. All five of them met as interns at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Every member of the group is involved in writing, producing, and comedy—and last month the group released a video called “Atheist Mingle“ (note: video includes not safe for work language), which eventually got picked up by Funny or Die.

http://chrisstedman.religionnews.com/2013/12/12/interview-meet-comedians-behind-atheist-mingle/

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1. I wish I could watch the video. It sounds hilarious.

Who would have guessed that internet access in Mexico is even worse than it is where I was previously??

But trying to work with the people who apparently could fix it leads to some pretty entertaining situations.

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2. I didn't realize you were in Mexico

Did you move permanently or are you on vacation?

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3. We have started our big cruise.

We are loving Mexico and may stay here a year or more.

Our plan is to get down to Panama, through the canal and into the Caribbean….

but we have no schedule, so we shall see!

It's a great adventure and I'm learning Spanish pretty rapidly, something I have always wanted to do and never thought I would accomplish.

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4. Wow

That sounds spectacular! Best of luck on your adventure.