Comedian Jackie Gleason
Story★★★The late comedian Jackie Gleason was described in Reader’s Digest as “a lonely
and suffering soul given to late-night drinking sessions, looking for answers to life
and death, with a terrible emptiness in him that he couldn’t fill.”
The point
Despite fame and success, comedian Jackie Gleason was privately a lonely soul drowning an unfillable emptiness in late-night drinking, showing that worldly success cannot satisfy the soul.
Scripture
Ecclesiastes 2:10-11John 4:13-14
Audience
Adults
Tone
Sobering
To tell aloud
under a minute · 38 words
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