A BRIEF US radio comedy sketch which targeted the religiosity of former Southern Baptist preacher and Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has landed the station – KCPW, Utah’s National Public Radio station – in hot water.

The sketch began with a woman saying:

And now another Huckabee family recipe leaked by his opponents.

[Male Voice]:

Tired of bland unsatisfying Eucharists? Try this Huckabee family favorite. Deep-Fried Body of Christ – boring holy wafers no more. Take one Eucharist. Preferably post transubstantiation. Deep-fry in fat, not vegetable oil, ladies, until crispy. Serve piping hot. Mike likes to top his Christ with whipped cream and sprinkles. But his wife Janet and the boys like theirs with heavy gravy and cream puffs. It goes great with red wine.

Woman:

Now that is just ridiculous. Everyone knows evangelicals don’t believe in transubstantiation.

The station apologised and withdrew the sketch from its website after receiving an official complaint from Catholic League President Bill Donohue who thundered:

We are lodging a complaint with Ed Sweeney, KCPW’s general manager. This kind of programming would be over-the-top on a shock-jock station, never mind a station funded by the taxpayers. We would also like to know who was behind this assault on Jesus. Therefore, we are asking for an investigation. Whoever it was, he or she used presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee and evangelicals as foil, saving the real sucker punch for Roman Catholics. This is despicable on several counts: it is blasphemous and bigoted. But it may also be motivated by a political calculus, making it really dirty if it is.

Ooo-er!