No, Sarah Silverman is NOT funny. I've watched some of her bits (I'm not going to waste my time watching "Jesus Is Magic") and they're repetitive, crude, racist and nasty. Her fans continually scream to people like me "you don't GET her comedy! She's making FUN of racism!" Oh, I get her comedy alright, and it's NOT FUNNY. "All In The Family" was a wildly popular comedy series whose main character was an unrepentant bigot named Archie Bunker. Sometimes that show was very funny, but watching it today makes me cringe. Listening to Archie Bunker go on about "spics" and "wops" and "hebes" and "coloreds" and "fags" is grotesque, just as it is to listen to Silverman talk about the inferiority of blacks and the unwashed Mexicans and her idea to put AIDS patients on a plane and send them to another planet. This is Sarah Silverman's schtick, "a study in broad contrast" as one critic put it: "cute" girl (she's pushing forty) dressed in clothing more approriate for a little girl (or boy) spewing bigotry and obcenities in a high-pitched, sing-songy voice, That's it. That's her whole act, which she does over and over again (she's been doing the same material for years and years). She comes across to me as a very unpleasant, emotionally disturbed person.
No, Sarah Silverman is NOT funny. I've watched some of her bits (I'm not going to waste my time watching "Jesus Is Magic") and they're repetitive, crude, racist and nasty. Her fans continually scream to people like me "you don't GET her comedy! She's making FUN of racism!" Oh, I get her comedy alright, and it's NOT FUNNY. "All In The Family" was a wildly popular comedy series whose main character was an unrepentant bigot named Archie Bunker. Sometimes that show was very funny, but watching it today makes me cringe. Listening to Archie Bunker go on about "spics" and "wops" and "hebes" and "coloreds" and "fags" is grotesque, just as it is to listen to Silverman talk about the inferiority of blacks and the unwashed Mexicans and her idea to put AIDS patients on a plane and send them to another planet. This is Sarah Silverman's schtick, "a study in broad contrast" as one critic put it: "cute" girl (she's pushing forty) dressed in clothing more approriate for a little girl (or boy) spewing bigotry and obcenities in a high-pitched, sing-songy voice, That's it. That's her whole act, which she does over and over again (she's been doing the same material for years and years). She comes across to me as a very unpleasant, emotionally disturbed person.