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.
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.
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.
[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.
[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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.”
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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!”.
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.
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.)
