# Is Sarah Silverman funny? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655 "2007-10-05T17:06:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/41 "2007-10-05T19:14:32Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] Women aren’t funny. [/QUOTE] Remember the thread about celebrities on the Dope? Obviously, **VCO3** is Jerry Lewis! Silverman used to be funny. Nothing I’ve seen her do in the past couple of years has been funny. She’s pushing her tiny little shtick so hard that it’s stopped working for all but her most faithful fans. Outrageous things come from that cute face in her little girl voice. I get it. But the outrageous things have to be more than just outrageous. They no longer are, and I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/42 "2007-10-05T19:22:00Z")
I like Sarah. I think she is funny. Sometimes she’s cringe-inducing, sometimes she’s funny when inducing said cringe. I think she’s incredibly talented, though. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/43 "2007-10-05T19:25:54Z")
She is the antithesis of funny. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/44 "2007-10-05T19:28:35Z")
In the comedy central roasts she has told many very funny jokes, but it could be that someone wrote them for her. I kind of liker her but have not ever seen her be funny where you knew it wasn’t written by someone else. And her show is a mess- its like no one is really trying to act or even get into character- random funny one liners thrown in here and there, but no humor stemming from the plot. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/45 "2007-10-05T19:28:55Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] “My seven year old niece came home from school the other day. She said, ‘Aunt Sarah, did you know Hitler killed 60 million Jews during the holocaust?’” “I had to tell her, ‘He killed 6 million Jews. . .he wasn’t _that_ bad.’” [/QUOTE] I think the punchline was something like “60 million would have been _unforgivable_…”. It was maybe the only joke is “Jesus Is Magic” that made me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/46 "2007-10-05T19:31:05Z")
[QUOTE=xanthous] Without reading any of the other replies I say, “I think she is F-ing HY-sterical!” There is something about the wrongness coming out of that petite cute face that just cracks my ass up. One of the ads for her second season went something like this, “People ask me if the success of my show has affected me in anyway. And I say definitely not. I still put on my $500 jeans one leg at a time just like anybody else with the help of my assistant. I still have the same hopes, dreams, and boats as everyone else” I could listen to that ad 1000 times. I think she is so adorably perverse in every way- I love her! [/QUOTE] Yeah, this is the commerical I like a lot, her delivery is very good in it. But I saw her stand-up somewhere and it was just awful. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/47 "2007-10-05T19:33:53Z")
The part I don’t get about her is the impression that she’s attractive. I suppose I might be amused by her “cute girl talks nasty” schtick if I was actually under the impression that she was cute. I find her weird-looking. And not particularly funny. She’s been decent in some movie roles I’ve seen, but her stand-up act leaves me scratching my head. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/48 "2007-10-05T19:34:13Z")
I don’t think she’s funny … but I fully admit I might be comedy-challenged\*. I don’t really get her jokes, I sort of sit there in silence (the reason I am watching in the first place is because Mr. Del thinks she is a laff riot) and eventually pick up a magazine. And for some reason I’m really annoyed when Mr. Del mentions that I don’t like her because I don’t like the vulgarity. Unfortunately it’s one of those situations where the more I protest that I don’t mind the vulgarity, the more I sound like a crazy church lady. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/49 "2007-10-05T19:51:45Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] She is the antithesis of funny. [/QUOTE] Yeah, well _you’re_ the antithesis of funny. What do you have to say about that? ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/50 "2007-10-05T19:57:04Z")
I don’t think she is funny. Margaret Cho is funny. Ellen is funny. Roseanne’s standup was funny, and for the most part her show was very funny up until that last season. Lily Tomlin was funny. I have no problem with offensive, vulgar humor, but Sarah Silverman seems to have left out the humor and only picked up on the offensive and vulgar parts. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/51 "2007-10-05T20:00:03Z")
> [@](#): > > And for some reason I’m really annoyed when Mr. Del mentions that I don’t like her because I don’t like the vulgarity. Unfortunately it’s one of those situations where the more I protest that I don’t mind the vulgarity, the more I sound like a crazy church lady. It’s all in the approach. “I’m telling you for the last time, you weasel-fucking, cunt-smashing dribble of monkey jizz, I don’t give a rat’s fucking left nut about the goddamn VULGARITY.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/52 "2007-10-05T20:00:08Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] In the comedy central roasts she has told many very funny jokes, but it could be that someone wrote them for her. [/QUOTE] I think the comedians do write their own material for roasts. She may just be better at insulting people than at doing stand-up - I don’t think I’ve seen her anywhere outside of roasts or The Aristocrats, though. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/53 "2007-10-05T20:16:02Z")
[QUOTE=Justin\_Bailey] I used to think Sarah Silverman was hysterical a few years ago, but she hasn’t done anything that I think is really funny in a long time. Although her turn on Greg the Bunny was great. [/QUOTE] She was just fine on Greg the Bunny, although she, Seth Green, and Eugene Levy were all upstaged by the [del]puppets[/del] Fabricated Americans on the show. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/54 "2007-10-05T20:31:56Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] Women aren’t funny. [/QUOTE] Let’s see… Jim Belushi, Jerry Lewis, and who else? And the rest of you are being whooshed. ---
**Author:** ![Phatlewt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Phatlewt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phatlewt)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/55 "2007-10-05T20:34:23Z")
I want to like her, but I don’t recall ever laughing at anything she’s said. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/56 "2007-10-05T20:41:50Z")
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus] Yeah, this is the commerical I like a lot, her delivery is very good in it. But I saw her stand-up somewhere and it was just awful. [/QUOTE] I liked the one with the dog licking its ass and she wants to see what’s so awesome about the taste of dog ass. I’d even rate her show a notch above a Ben Stiller flick. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/57 "2007-10-05T20:53:56Z")
[QUOTE=DianaG] Poor Sarah. She wants so much to be the female Lenny Bruce, but really she’s just a better looking Don Rickles. [/QUOTE] You just made me think of Don Rickles in shoulder-length black hair and a mohair sweater, sneering into the camera, “Ya hockey puck!”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/58 "2007-10-05T21:02:28Z")
A lot of people think she’s funny now, because she’s still cute enough to do spreads for Maxim and FHM. She’d better enjoy the fun while it lasts, because she’s in her mid-thirties now, and her acceptability, or rather, her bankability, depends a lot on her fuckability. tick. tick. tick. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/59 "2007-10-05T21:33:36Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Let’s see… Jim Belushi, Jerry Lewis, and who else? [/QUOTE] Er… _John_ Belushi. I can has dumbass? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655/60 "2007-10-05T22:53:15Z")
Another person in the camp of people who don’t think she’s funny. I don’t find anything clever in her shtick, the few times I’ve seen her act (on television, never live.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-silverman-funny/421655.md?page=4)