HBO's new comedy series The Righteous Gemstones takes aim at hypocritical megachurch pastors

(From left) Adam DeVine, Danny McBride and John Goodman in The Righteous Gemstones. PHOTO: HBO
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LOS ANGELES - The Righteous Gemstones, a new comedy series, opens with a family of millionaire megachurch pastors bickering as they conduct a mass baptism in China.

The event - which goes hilariously awry - is the opening salvo in an extended satirical takedown of rich televangelists and churches.

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