sarah silvermanOccasionally I work with a PR firm to help promote their projects. I’ve plugged Freedom Writers, Norbit, Blades of Glory and a few others. It’s no hardship for me as I would have probably written something about those movies anyway, and in one case it gave me the extended opportunity to rip two-time male Oscar winner Hilary Swank a new vaginis. Today I got an e-mail from them asking if I’d be interested in doing a write-up on Sarah Silverman (otherwise known as “the Jew’s response to Jenny McCarthy”), and her new TV show The Sarah Silverman Program, which is premiering tonight, 2/1, at 10:30pm on Comedy Central. I gave it some thought, some real deep introspection and finally responded “Ok, I guess.”

It’s not that I have negative feelings about Silverman, per se. She just doesn’t inspire terrific passion in me the way a coked-out Lindsay Lohan does, or a guilty pleasure Keanu Reeves movie does. I have a lot of opinions about her, but then again, I could name 50 things that bugged me about the second act of Failure to Launch. My point being, I have a lot of useless opinions about a lot of things.

I do think she’s a fine comedienne (in the sense that I never laugh at her jokes but don’t hate her in the way I fucking loathe dipshit joke-stealer Dane Cook). I can agree she’s mostly attractive (in the way all Jewish girls are attractive after three hits of Manischevitz at your cousin’s Bar Mitzvah. Though she might be the only Jewish girl I could bring home that Mother would actually DIS-approve of). I dig that she broke up the Jimmy Kimmel family (props to the homewreckers of the world! Holla, Celestia!). I respect that she bounced back from the brink of career death after saying “chink” on Conan O’Brien to become the nation’s foremost “Jewish female comedian we really hope doesn’t say chink on TV again”. She gets bonus points for being the catalyst for the opening scene of Way of the Gun, where Ryan Phillippe delivers one of my favorite pieces of potty mouth dialogue ever (“Shut that cunt’s mouth or I’ll come over there and fuckstart her head!.” Awesome. And you wonder why I’m on his side.). I genuinely admire that she put out her own movie last year where she sang, danced, mugged, and cracked jokes about the supposed rape of her recently deceased 92 year-old Grandmother, and that it was actually pretty funny (also it was only 72 minutes long, making it a near-perfect one night rip-to-reseal Netflix rental).

But I recognize that though I think all of those surface-y things about her, I’ve never really explored how I really feel about Sarah Silverman; as a person, as a comedian, or as a celebrity. I’d like to remedy that now.

Ahem.

I have nothing interesting to say about Sarah Silverman.



Here’s a clip from her show in case you’re interested:


Bangarang!

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