Yellowbeard is a 1983 British-American comedy film directed by Mel Damski and written by Graham Chapman, Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna, and David Sherlock.
 With an ensemble cast featuring Chapman, Cook, Peter Boyle, Cheech & Chong, Martin Hewitt, Michael Hordern, Eric Idle, Madeline Kahn, James Mason, and John Cleese, and the final cinematic appearances of Marty Feldman and Peter Bull.
Salvation Boulevard is a 2011 comedy-drama-thriller-action film with religious satire undertones directed by George Ratliff and starring Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei, and Jim Gaffigan.
 It is based on the novel of the same name by Larry Beinhart.
Shelley is a British sitcom made by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV from 12 July 1979 to 12 January 1984 and from 11 October 1988 to 1 September 1992.
 Starred Hywel Bennett as James Shelley, originally 28 years old and a sardonic, perpetually unemployed anti-establishment 'freelance layabout' with a doctoral degree.
 In the original run, Belinda Sinclair played Shelley's girlfriend Fran, and Josephine Tewson appeared regularly as his landlady, Edna Hawkins.
 The series was created by Peter Tilbury who also wrote the first three series.
 The scripts for subsequent episodes were by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin (both of whom would later go on to write the hugely successful "Drop the Dead Donkey" for Channel 4), Colin Bostock-Smith, David Frith, Bernard McKenna and Barry Pilton.
 All 71 episodes were produced and directed by Anthony Parker.
The Top Secret Life Of Edgar Briggs was a 30-minute British television comedy series created by Bernard McKenna & Richard Laing and produced by Humphrey Barclay for LWT.
 It was transmitted on the ITV network 15 September - 20 December 1974 and featured David Jason as the inept Edgar Briggs, personal assistant to the Commander of the British Secret Intelligence Service who, in spite of his cluelessness (and ineptness), manages to solve case after case.
 It has been likened to the earlier American series "Get Smart".
Fred "Tripp" York is a professor of religious studies, and a prolific Mennonite writer (B.A., Trevecca Nazarene University; M.T.S., Duke University; Ph.D., Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary).
 His writings span a wide range of genres and subjects including: animals, martyrdom, politics, violence, religious satire and comics.
 His most popular work is his satirical search for Satan in "The Devil Wears Nada".
Mary Ann Kelty (1789 – 8 January 1873) was a British religious writer.
 She is said to have written the first religious novel.
Religious satire is a form of satire targeted at religious beliefs. From the earliest times, at least since the plays of Aristophanes, religion has been one of the three primary topics of literary satire, along with politics and sex.
 Satire which targets the clergy is a type of political satire, while religious satire is that which targets religious beliefs.
Out of the Trees is a 1975 television sketch show pilot written by Graham Chapman, Douglas Adams and Bernard McKenna that was broadcast on BBC 2 in 1976.
 The show shared some of the stream-of-consciousness style of "Monty Python's Flying Circus", of which Chapman was a member.
 Actors included Mark Wing-Davey and Simon Jones.
Bernard McKenna (born 1944) is a Scottish writer/producer who has written, or co-written, many hours of British television comedy.
 He is most known for his work with Graham Chapman of "Monty Python" fame as well as his collaborations with Peter Cook and Douglas Adams.
 He had several acting roles in "Monty Python's Life of Brian".
Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British religious satire comedy film starring and written by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin).
 It was also directed by Jones.
 The film tells the story of Brian Cohen (played by Chapman), a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ, and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah.

Question: What year did Bernard McKenna appear in a British religious satire?
Answer: 1979