I don't get the appeal of Sarah Silverman

[DerekG]

I adore Richard Pryor and George Carlin; I still listen to recordings of Lenny Bruce and Bill Hicks performances.

But I don't get Silverman.

I've watched a half dozen of her routines, and I have yet to see a scintilla of wit, insight, or even deft delivery. Just shock value.

What am I missing here?

[Floogeldy]

1. You've got to love women to appreciate her.

That is all.

;)

[noshenanigans]

2. Oh god, rant on!

I don't like her. I am very active in the "alternative comedy" community and have seen her countless times, and no, I still don't like her. She's nice enough, but I don't think her schtick is funny. And that's what it is- schtick. I love Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Carlin, Pryor, but she is nowhere near that level.

And here's why: precisely what the comment above me said. "You have to love women." She's only "popular" because she tries so damn hard to be edgy and countless 14 year old think "Oh My God, she cursed! Women aren't suppossed to be like that!", thus making her popular for the very same thing she's suppossedly counteracting (except she only got to where she is by who she has slept with (there, I said it.)

Yes, I am bitter, because as a female comic she is making it THISMUCH harder to get accepted unless you're blowing a guy who magically ends up with a talk show.

Jokes that are just "Look, I'm so raucous, I said the word Jesus next to the word shit!" are not smart, and not interesting, and not edgy. She doesn't take any real chances, she merely pays lip service to an idea while playing into the system.

There, I said it. I have no beef with anyone that likes her, taste is taste, no reason to fight me. But I've said my peace.

[WCGreen]

3. Psst... I have a talk show.....

[noshenanigans]

4. Here's my number..

Unless you're Carson Daly. In that case.. Carson, stop calling me.

[WCGreen]

5. Fuck Carson.... He;s a girlie man....

Karma shit...

[noshenanigans]

7. But I don't wanna..

No... fucking Carson won't help anything. It didn't get me that El Pollo Loco Commercial like he said. :shakes fist violently:

Sigh. Ok, I've never met Carson Daley (spelling? like it matters). However, put me in a room with David Cross or Zach Galifinakis and you have to pull me off him.

[WCGreen]

8. Who is this Silverman person that you speak of.....

I guess I tripped happily into middle age cause I haven;t a clue who she is...

Does she hang with the two quarters guy?

[anti_shrub]

6. My guess

Is that there really hasn't been a female counterpart to guys like Pryor, Carlin, Murphy, Rock, so the first female that comes along and is "dirty" like they are and they get elevated to a high status they don't quite deserve.

I think her painful performance on one of the first Real Time with Bill Maher shows was the reason they changed the format after a few weeks.

[GaYellowDawg]

9. I agree...

I never have found her that funny.