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Reader Feedback on "The Girly Show"
I think its funny when she says extremely dirty things with such a straight face. A straight pretty face. My opinion is already swayed though, I don't know why I've always had 'a thing' for Jewish girls.
--RSG
01/15 |
ghost of lenny bruce says, she is brillyant and it really isn,t for morons to get!!! SHe also down -plays her sexuality-which I as a free thinking male, hate-she is soooooo hot. let it ALL shine babe!!!!!
--GLB
01/01 |
Umm, this article is stupid. This neither gets at why Sarah Silverman is funny nor why people watch her, nor why her show sucks nonetheless. I actually think Roseanne Barr would do a great job delivering Sarah's lines, I don't think her "appeal" whatever it is has anything to do with her looks. It's her stringing together of ridiculous strings of logic made up of cliches, stereotypes, taboos, etc. that's funny. That's why the standup is better than the show.
--FD
10/26 |
There really seems to be a logic fallacy to the article's premise. And since it's not funny (and I find it hard to believe it was meant to be), it comes across as a mere bashing rant... which should be "personal blog" material, no? If bart is getting paid for this stuff then half the internet could be doing his job, and being much more entertaining to boot.
--DPS
10/12 |
Sarah Silverman has all the male audience and part of the female audience on sexy hot good looks alone. She's got it like that. If she makes us smile along with it, hey! Why not???
--DH
10/12 |
Great article. And spot-on. I've wanted to really like Silverman for years, but there just seems to be this nagging element of pop culture chic that clings to her like that last pesky hair on a male porn star's otherwise perfectly smooth balls. When she started "dating" Jimmy Kimmel, this suspicion of mine blossomed into a full-blown condemnation. I'd still do her, though. She's adorable.
--DB
10/12 |
Bart, spot on with your Sarah Silverman critique. I would have enjoyed it even more if Hooksexup had accompanied it with nude shots of Sarah. PS I apologize, I shouldn't have said the second sentence.
--T.O
10/12 |
What about the gem, Strangers With Candy? Same humor void of morality yet delivered by Amy Sedaris as Jerri Blank, one the most hideous characters ever created.
--bj
10/12 |
bart "whatever his name is" is not funny. neither is sarah silverman. now they have something in common (except she's the better looking one). isn't that cute.
--js
10/12 |
You really think the only thing keeping Al Sharpton or anybody else from crying racism over a joke about 'the blacks' killing Christ is that Sarah Silverman is so doable-looking? C'mon--nobody could take that seriously. Even though one gets the feeling Silverman really does share some un-PC sentiments with her beau Jimmy Kimmel, she's smart enough to make fun of herself for it. A comedienne who claims to believe that 'the blacks' killed Christ isn't giving you a statement of perceived fact; she's laughing at a perspective that separates 'us' from 'the blacks', and then attributes all kinds of silly crimes to that Other.
--jm
10/12 |
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I still kind of like her but not because I think she's funny or cute. I just kinda feel sorry for her. I mean, how desperate for a laugh to you have to be to be licking on canine ass?
--ep
10/12 |
Only one person's opinion, of course, but I find Sarah Silverman's stand-up somtimes funny, sometimes hilarious, and her show hardly funny at all. The latter, clearly not a unanimous viewpoint, however, considering the folks at Gawker, whose sensibility and sense of humor I generally find esteemable, recently touted her new season's offerings. As for her looks, sure, she's cute. But sexy, hot? Hmmm. To prepubescent suburban males who don't have undisturbed access to a television with Showtime, or HBO's flaccid new show, "Tell Me You Love Me," I suppose.
--HTD
10/11 |
Anyone who thinks Sarah Silverman has any good looks to lean on is fucking wack job. This article spends the whole first half making it sound like it's building an argument against her for not genuinely being funny and then leaning on her "good looks" for success only to round out before completing that argument with, "damn her for apologizing." What? Hey, author, I forgot your name, but nothing in this article was funny. The arguments are mega-weak and you just admitted that you think Sarah Silverman is kinda hot. You fucking blow. I think she's moderately funny, moreso in stand-up than in her show. I don't see her leaning on her looks anymore than any other comic leans on their physicality to pull off jokes and uh, I certainly don't think she's attractive in the slightest. Stick with writing jokes, since apparently, "you know funny."
--MT
10/09 |
Sarah Silverman is totally insanely funny. She and Dave Chappelle, in different ways, have this magic ability to take human ugliness and evil and just shrink it down and neutralize it until it's just a little toadlike blob that can't hurt anyone any more. And they don't let you off the hook- to think they are funny, you have to admit that we're all human and we're all horrible, and you roll on the floor laughing, and then you get up and wipe your eyes and vow to be better person in the future. And I thought it was nice of her to apologize.
--ebw
10/09 |
totally agree with everything you say...
--bl
10/08 |
You know what's the lamest thing about this article? (In heavy, heavy competition, mind you). He tries to make "You severely overestimate your cuteness" the trump card of his argument, when in reality Silverman's using that line to poke fun at herself. Lame lame lame.
--jb
10/08 |
Awful writing. You've really abandoned citing any kind of evidence, except for the opinions of Lorne Michaels, the main proponent in the travesty otherwise known as jimmy fallon's career. You deliver nothing but vindictive spite, cushiony filler, in what should be considered more of a rant than an article. So much for being objective huh? Charles Krauthammer would be proud.
--EF
10/07 |
I'm toally with the author on this one, and I really liked this article. I find myself almost wishing she were more groundbreaking and more, well, funny. It seems to me like she could be, and yet she really isn't.
--JB
10/06 |
I tend to mostly, but not quite all the way, agree with the assessment of Sarah Silverman and her funny-ness. Sometimes she genuinely does crack my shit up, but much of the time the reaction is more of a rolled eye or two. I wish female comedians (where are all the funny ones, anyway?!) like Maria Bamford (by that, I mean funny) were given a bit more publicity. I'm not associated with her at all, but her series on Superdeluxe.com is pretty great.
--SK
10/05 |
I think you make some astute points, but none of them diminish the fact that she plain and simple cracks me up. I look forward to checking out this new show.
--stj
10/05 |
I think the joke you allude to Roseanne saying would be just as funny, if not more so. I htink you are just annoyed with Sarah, because she IS funny. Dane Cook was funny and fresh before everyone and their brother played his cds to death. The burger king stuff is hilarious. You don't know funny, or maybe you're just getting to old to recognize some of its newest faces. Cross is great, but so is Silverman.
--NPI
10/05 |
On what planet does being good-looking benefit being funny? Generally speaking, being hot is a burden to being a stand-up. Part of the reason that people dump on Dane Cook - well, besides from the fact that he's monstrously unfunny - is that he is a good looking dude. If Patton Oswalt looked like Dane Cook he'd have a much harder time getting laughs. Silverman succeeds despite her looks, not becuase of them.
--pn
10/05 |
This article was actually originally posted last Tuesday, maybe by accident. I read it and thought, boy, Hooksexup has a lot of guts to write a bad review of someone who's currently advertising prominently on their site. Then on Wednesday, with the whole home page Sarah Silvermanned, the article was completely gone, and I thought, yep, somebody got yelled at. I wondered if it would be reposted later, and now I see that it has, so good for you. Now I know why Consumer Reports doesn't accept advertising, though.
--JCF
10/05 |
U know what buddy? 1) Silverman is totally funny, and 2) Contrary to what obligations you may heap on them, comedians are NOT required to "be sincere purveyors of harsh truths" in the way that artists are required to make us take a fresh look at something in order for them to be successful. Comedians need only make us laugh. If she's already blowing u, don't get upset if she didn't think to put a pinkie up your wazzoo. I get the impression that you're a sort of hot misogynist. U think Fergie isn't attractive, and you think Silverman is only redeemable for her looks. What part of axe to grind does that not poke at? Your own referenced Lisa Lampanelli does seriously improper black jokes, and she doesn't get pooped on by Sharpton, despite being ugly as a dumpster full of hobo shit. Your invective here is not a logically constructed op/ed piece - IT IS LAMPOON SIR, and your subconscious either wants to have sex with Fergie and Silverman or else it wants to have sex with all the people that want to have sex with them (envy brother, envy).
--GC
10/05 |
I'm not arguing against what Bart, here, has written about Sarah. But it's just rude and weird to take so much money from the Sarah Silverman Show, fill your g.d. site with her material (videos, talking thought clouds), and then tell us that this very material which has recently been so prominent on your site actually sucks. WTF?
--ML
10/05 |
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