# Who finds Sarah Silverman Funny? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 29, 2008, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632 "2008-06-29T05:39:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/21 "2008-06-29T15:49:15Z")
The first I saw of her was on _The Aristocrats_, and like **Indistinguishable** , I found it to be one of the few funny bits of the movie. Everyone was trying to be shocking, but it was mostly just gross. She managed to actually shock me in a deadpan manner that gave me the same sort of cringing giggles that I got from the best of the UK Office. I caught an episode of her show once, and I really wanted to like it after what I’d seen on **Aristocrats** , but I wasn’t really able to. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/22 "2008-06-29T16:02:25Z")
She was really funny on Monk. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/23 "2008-06-29T16:34:48Z")
The only thing I liked her in was _School of Rock_ where she played a shrewing bitch of a girlfriend. I don’t think she was acting. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/24 "2008-06-29T16:37:37Z")
I think she is hysterical. There is something about her delivery that makes it seem like the joke is on her when she says even the most outrageous material. I’d hit her too. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/25 "2008-06-29T17:05:29Z")
She’s great in small doses, but she gets tiresome if you watch too much of her all at once. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Shroud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@The\_Shroud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Shroud)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/26 "2008-06-29T17:57:09Z")
She cracked me the hell up when I first heard her “shock” [routine on Conan O’Brien’s show](http://youtube.com/watch?v=7ZKhR4nPLac) almost 10 years ago. It helps when she has someone like Conan to play off. (I’ll be as much of a troll as the OP and exclaim “how can you NOT find that appearance funny?!” You mean senses of humor vary?) The couple episodes of the Sarah Silverman show I caught were a riot too. [Here’s a clip](http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/59226/detail/) from the AIDS test episode. [The Abortion episode](http://www.cracked.com/video_14395_sarah-silvermans-abortion-montage.html) was pretty funny too. And finally, for those who think she’s not hot, I submit [this scene](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-596646783208039903&q=sarah+silverman+cheese+with&ei=nctnSKjUIITErwKj3MWmDQ&hl=en) from _I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With_. Yeah, all in all, I’m a fan. THE fan? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/27 "2008-06-29T21:11:00Z")
[QUOTE=SenorBeef] Her whole routine seems to be “I’m semi-attractive\* and I say bad stuff! Oooh!” - if she was a run of the mill ugly girl she wouldn’t be famous. [/QUOTE] Ha, and if she were a semi-attractive famous guy we could say ‘If he wasn’t famous he’d be run of the mill ugly!’ Most of the time I find her pretty damn funny. I’ve seen her ‘off,’ too and she’s really socially awkward and OCD. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Buttons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Mr\_Buttons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Buttons)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/28 "2008-06-29T21:11:40Z")
Ok, I guess I was a bit mean in the original post, and some of those links ARE funny. The thing is, I made this thread last night while watching “Comic’s Unleashed” on Comedy Central. Her whole routine was just picking on this one super-nerdy 37 year old guy in the audience. It’s like she went onstage that night beforehand and said to herself "I’m gonna find me a nerdy older guy (How hard is that at a comedy club?) and just rip him a new one for 5 minutes straight. I felt so bad for the dude, he paid good $$ to come and see a show and it’s like she came out looking to pick out a random audience member and proceed to neuter him. He didn’t do anything to deserve the beating he took from her. After watching some of the links, I’ve bumped her up from having one good skit to her being 15% funny, 85% mean spirited bitch. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/29 "2008-06-29T21:36:14Z")
I liked her that one time she was on Star Trek. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/30 "2008-06-29T22:10:06Z")
[QUOTE=smiling bandit] She was really funny on Monk. [/QUOTE] I came in to post this. She’s Monk’s No. 1 Fan and has been in a couple of episodes. Otherwise, those are the only times I can tolerate her. She’s semi-attrractive. I wouldn’t kick her out of my bed for eating crackers. But I don’t find her funny. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/31 "2008-06-29T23:22:23Z")
I find her funny and she pushes the material as far as she can get away with. I like that. Every body is fair game. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/32 "2008-06-29T23:32:30Z")
Funny 80% of the time, but with a low quotient of repeatability. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/33 "2008-06-29T23:33:13Z")
[She bombed](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqI-7AMtBiU) at an Amnesty concert in England. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/34 "2008-06-30T03:31:13Z")
I also laughed at her comment during the Hugh Hefner roast (IIRC): “I just met (Hef) backstage. He was pleased to meet me, until he learned I _wasn’t_ a hooker”. It blurs the distinction between brag and self-deprecation. _(I’m beautiful, but could pass for a hooker. He’s a whore-monger, but has his way with women._ Etc.) ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/35 "2008-06-30T03:53:38Z")
[QUOTE=glee] [She bombed](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqI-7AMtBiU) at an Amnesty concert in England. [/QUOTE] Why do you say she bombed? People were definitely laughing throughout that set. I loved Jesus is Magic. Her TV show didn’t do it for me, mostly because I didn’t care for the other characters. Overall, I think she’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![sunacres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/36 "2008-06-30T05:02:37Z")
FWIW, I find her bit totally hysterical. Sure, she’s like a sawzall going at your nuts, but she gets your nervous laughter going, that’s for sure. As far as I’m concerned, she’s fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/37 "2008-06-30T06:53:10Z")
[QUOTE=The Shroud] She cracked me the hell up when I first heard her “shock” [routine on Conan O’Brien’s show](http://youtube.com/watch?v=7ZKhR4nPLac) almost 10 years ago. It helps when she has someone like Conan to play off. [/QUOTE] Now that is funny. Up until now the only thing I found funny from her was the Matt Damon thing. Now two things. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/38 "2008-06-30T09:47:31Z")
Funny, smart and hot. Well, funny half the time. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/39 "2008-06-30T10:30:10Z")
[QUOTE=Rubystreak] Why do you say she bombed? People were definitely laughing throughout that set. [/QUOTE] There was some nervous laughter. But this was the latest in a series of successful Amnesty concerts and the audience were roaring at the other acts. [Jimmy Fallon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b60u-N70c0I) [David Armand + special guest](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dxf6keoYV0) ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632/40 "2008-06-30T13:06:26Z")
I think she’s hysterically funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-finds-sarah-silverman-funny/454632.md?page=3)