Finally! Now this is what I call winter for petes sakes. None of that asscold or iceass, no way man, give me some blowing snow, some drifts and a doggy to play with and I’m completely sold.
Now THIS is winter. Finally.
We’re going to be heading home early tonight due to the fact that my boss lives in the burbs, honestly, makes no difference to me, the CTA got me to work in less time than it normally does, but I’ll take a half day off, no problem.
Can I say something?
Sarah Silverman bugs me.
Okay, maybe I’m jealous because I know John secretly thinks she’s extremely hot, even if he agrees with me about the bugging. Or maybe I’m jealous because all she’s done is take 13 year old boy humor and plug a pretty face on to it and called herself a comedian. Which she is, I’ll give her that, the woman has been working for years, she’s not fly-by-night.
But Christ, I can’t watch her anymore.
We checked out her Jesus whatever thing and I found myself annoyed with her singing and extracurricular stuff that wasn’t stand up. She had a few great jokes I really liked, but found the majority of it to be the easy way out, some people may not think so, but saying your grandma got raped by a bleeding spic is not my idea of hilarity. And after sitting in many theater basements with the basest of boys, it’s also not really all that creative. Every improviser I know had the queef discussion a million times, until we all realized it’s not really that funny anymore.
Last night we watched her show, and I’ll admit, I laughed out loud maybe two times, then almost threw the TV across the room after I had to watch a bird poop on a tree. Her demeanor is cold and uninteresting, her humor is blue and too easy and her thing of being “unappealing” is working, she is, the show is, and to cap it off, it’s just not funny.
So world, hear me say it loud and clear “I’m done with Sarah Silverman”. Pretty yes, funny yes. Interesting? Not so much.
4 comments:
You are wrong. And yes, she's HAWT!
But also very, very funny.
Okay (I mean OK), I'll grant that she is a VERY acquired taste. And it can hit home and become appealing when you least expect it.
For instance Diann hates Silverman's stand-up, but LOVED the first ep of her show. So maybe she'll grow on you. Then again maybe not!
i just said the very same thing on tankboy's blog. i feel EXACTLY the same way you do. i'm rowdy, i'm "raunchy" as my grandma used to say, i'm blue. i like to talk about taking a dump, i like dark humor, i can do a lot of stuff.
BUT I'M DONE WITH HER, TOO. she's gorgeous, she's smart, and she *CAN* be funny. but i can't deal. she could be doing so much more.
(and i went to see 'jesus is magic' on my first real chicagoist outing, and all i could think was, 'shit. i should have seen this on DVD!')
Well thank you Smuss! See? SEE?
I really hate this idea of "don't like me". Its the same thing as "creative" authors telling me not to read their books. Fine. You know what? I won't then. If you make yourself unattractive and that's your gig, then I'm going to tend to believe you.
But I also won't discount that maybe I'm just jealous. But I don't think thats all of it.
So completely on board with you on this one. Just had the exact same conversation with Hendo the other day after watching the new show. I've seen her stand up, I've seen her movie, I've seen her show and it's not that she's never funny, it's just that she falls back on that cute, did I just say that? thing now that bugs.
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