Jesus to Silverman: "That's A Good Little Jewish Girl"

Remember her cross?

Now she's in bed with Jesus:

And she's told:  

"I know where your spot is.  That's a good Jewish little girl".

P.S.  Actually, many probably didn't catch the anti-Christian dig in this clip.

Jesus never made it to 40.

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Who is in Rabbi Susan Silverman's Prayers?

Sarah Silverman's sister is a Reform Rabbi, and a big WOWer.

Sarah, 40, and Susan, 48, are two of four sisters who grew up in the predominantly Christian town of Bedford, N.H., with their parents, a father who ran a discount clothing store and a mother who founded a community theater company.

The Rabbi who said:

The way I look at it is this: the worst Jew is no better or worse than anybody else, and the best Jew is no better than anybody else. But as a people we’ve done pretty good. I was born Jewish, and I want to be part of this people who really make a contribution to the world above and beyond their numbers. There’s something good, something that propels us forward and makes us think about the world and not just ourselves.”

Could it be she, the Rabbi, wants to save her sister, the comedienne?

The one who wore a cross?

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Tits and Balls With Sarah Silverman

The Guardian's Harriet Sherwood's factual and reliable reporting:-

Thousands of Jews pray every day at the Western Wall, the last remnant of the retaining wall of the Temple Mount, pushing scraps of paper bearing handwritten prayers into the cracks between its ancient golden stones. Men and women are forbidden from praying together; a small section of the wall is cordoned off for women.

The site, known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, is also revered in the Islamic faith and is the home of the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa mosque.

Well, since that's in an article about the Women of the Wall, too bad she didn't mention the Islamic prohibition on Jews praying at Judaism's most sacred site, the Temple Mount.

She could have at least noted that Jews on the Temple Mount are worse off than women at the Kotel.


P.S.  Sarah Silverman's tweet was this:

@SarahKSilverman

SO proud of my amazing sister @rabbisusan & niece @purplelettuce95 for their ballsout civil disobedience. Ur the tits!#womenofthewall
 

which prompted me to write

‏@ymedad

so that's the "Woman with the Balls with the Women of the Wall"?

P.P.S.

To be clear, I support in principle the aims of WOW.  I only hope that any gain they achieve will assist my rights on the Temple Mount (see p. 9-10 here). 

 

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She's So Incontinent

She has this to say about Judaism/Jewishness:-

“I personally don’t have religion, but I’m Jewish in the ways I can’t — and don’t want to — escape. Ethnically, culturally, it oozes out of me,” Silverman said. “Susan, my rabbi sister, has, of course, embraced it in every part of her life. We are different, but not that different.”

And she had this early childhood experience:-

At age 13, she started to experience depression and was sent to a psychiatrist who had hanged himself the day of her appointment and was discovered while she was in the waiting room. Soon after, a doctor prescribed Silverman 16 Xanax a day, and at one point she didn’t go to high school for two months. She eventually got better, and in 1988 she headed to New York University, but dropped out after a year to do comedy.

Yes, Sarah Silverman (see from Jan. 2007).

Her autobiography.

For grownups only.

Sarah Silverman Is Sick. Yes.

Reference.

Explanation:

Sarah Silverman was honored as best actress for her performance in the viral video “I’m … Matt Damon” and for her contribution to a voting initiative video. Lisa Kudrow won for outstanding comedic performance as the star of the series “Web Therapy” on lstudio.com.

The awards will be presented in New York on June 8, hosted by Seth Meyers (“Saturday Night Live”). The Webbys are known for their brief acceptance speeches, where winners are limited to five words. (Stephen Colbert, a special achievement winner last year, said: “Me. Me. Me. Me. Me.”)

...The Webbys are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member group of Web experts. Every category has two winners: one picked by the Webbys and the other chosen by online voting.

Integrity? Sarah Silverman? More Hollywood Incomprehensibility

I tried to understand this:

The economic downturn is jeopardizing "The Sarah Silverman Program," one of Comedy Central's signature series.

The show's executive producers -- Silverman, Dan Sterling and Rob Schrab -- have threatened to quit after the cable network told them the budget for their series would be slashed by more than 20%.

More than two months after "Sarah Silverman" ended its second season, the show has yet to be renewed for Season 3...

Concerned they won't be able to maintain the integrity of the show at the discounted price, Silverman, on behalf of the three executive producers, informed the network late last week that they can't proceed with a third season. The move reportedly sent shock waves through Comedy Central's executive offices, with top brass jumping into action to find a budget compromise that would keep the flagship live-action series on the air.

As of Friday night, the situation remained at a standstill. Both sides continued their back-and-forth during the weekend.

Integrity? Sarah Silverman?

Though discount goes well with her.

Remember this? And this? As well as this?

And how can you be at a standstill but moving back-and-forth? That's not beinjg procreative at all. Or maybe that's how Sarah does it?

Sarah (aka Schlepper) Silverman "Flops"

After bombing on Jonathan Ross, the 'world's hottest comedian' Sarah Silverman flops on London stage

She bombed as a guest on Jonathan Ross's show on Friday night and now Sarah Silverman has flopped on stage too. Hailed as the 'world's hottest, most controversial comedian', Silverman made her full-length UK debut at London's Hammersmith Apollo last night in front of an audience that included Hollywood star Keanu Reeves.

The 37-year-old comedian charged £35 for a performance of less than an hour, where she appeared anxious and uncomfortable.

Dressed in a newly-purchased Topshop mini-skirt, the taboo jokes were still there, including gags about abortion and rape.

Silverman was given a truffle which she pretended to lick before putting down her cleavage

Sarah has cleavage? (*) Well, she was booed.

However overall ' the funniest woman alive' - a moniker bestowed on her by Rolling Stone magazine - failed to impress. This disappointing performance follows her erratic one on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross where she appeared at times distracted and lost in thought.

"I'm very, very famous in America," Sarah Silverman tells us. With this debut UK gig, alongside her Friday-night turn on Jonathan Ross and the DVD release of her film Jesus Is Magic, she hoped to bring Britain into line. But UK celebrity might have to wait - this performance ended in near revolt, as a 3,500-strong crowd who had paid up to £50 per ticket demanded more from a comedian who delivered only 45 minutes of comedy.

Sarah, you're over-hyped," shouted a heckler.

Steve Bennett from comedy website Chortle complained that "minute for minute, there are sex phonelines that are cheaper than Sarah Silverman".

Time Out's website: "I've never been to a more sad-sack performance in my life - if you can't produce a single slice of new material, then don't put on a show in the first place," he said.

"When the lights went up, I thought it was a joke, and when she was cajoled into coming back onto the stage it was almost embarrassing - utterly pathetic."

Note: aka Schlepper. And here, too.

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Ok, maybe a bit:

Sarah, Try A Jewish Guy Next? They're Funny, Too

Popular U.S. comedians Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have broken off their five-year romance, publicists [Sarah's publicist is one Amy Zvi* who donated to John Kerry's campaign] for both said on Monday, ending a relationship that provided fertile ground for outrageous humor.

Kimmel, 40, is host of the late-night ABC television talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," and Silverman, 37, has her own comedy show, "The Sarah Silverman Program," on the cable TV network Comedy Central.



...Silverman, who is Jewish, says in the film that if she had a child with Kimmel, who is Catholic, the couple would have to explain that she is "one of the chosen people" and Kimmel believes that "Jesus is Magic."

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Ami


of BNC

Ubber Chochom

The Yiddishism "Ubber Chochom" means, basically "smart-*ss" or wiseacre.

You want a more concrete example?

Read on.

Questions for Sarah Silverman

Funny Girl

Interview By DEBORAH SOLOMON

Q: The opening credits of your new television sitcom, “The Sarah Silverman Program,” include a scenic glimpse of a cemetery plot, as your voice explains that your parents are both deceased. Is that actually true? No. They’re both pretty retired.

How do they feel about being knocked off in your show, which makes its debut on Comedy Central on Feb. 1? They’re fine with it. It was a way to bring a little bit of pathos to a self-centered character. It’s like Mr. Rogers said, There isn’t anyone you couldn’t love if you knew their whole story, and I figured if I added dead parents —

Even so, the show’s protagonist, who is named Sarah Silverman, is not exactly Mr. Rogers’s type. A model of political incorrectness, she becomes enraged when she is forced to watch a commercial for a humanitarian-aid group. Whom is she based on? I would describe her as ignorant and arrogant. The character is a lot of myself and a lot of my mother.

Much like Sacha Baron Cohen, you specialize in a kind of shock comedy that seems designed to give offense. What do you think of him? “Borat” was the most retarded yet most important movie I’ve seen in many years.

In the documentary “The Aristocrats,” you set a new record for outrageousness by claiming, with a straight face, “Joe Franklin raped me,” referring to the elderly television host. I heard that he threatened to sue you. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t really mad. I think he was just milking the extra publicity.

Do you see your work as social commentary? I don’t see it as anything. I try not to look at it. Deconstruction is a comedy killer.

How are things going with your comedic other, Jimmy Kimmel? Excellently! All my friends are comics, but I don’t know that you would know them — Mark Cohen, Doug Benson, Todd Glass, Todd Barry.

Why don’t you have any female friends? Tig Notaro, she’s a woman. She’s probably one of my best friends. She’s a comedian.

Tell us about your childhood in Bedford, N.H., where you were the youngest of four daughters. Isn’t your oldest sister a rabbi? She got into it on her own, after grad school, even. We grew up in a place with very few Jews. I didn’t look like the other kids. I had hairy legs, hairy arms, hair everywhere. I looked like a little monkey.

This doesn’t sound like a description of an idyllic childhood. I wouldn’t want to do it again. I had a lot of depression as a kid.

During adolescence, you mean? From 13 to 16. I didn’t go to school for months. It was so awful. I didn’t know how to express what it was. I remember trying to explain it to my stepdad and saying, “I feel like that terrible homesick feeling, but I’m home.”

Were you treated at the time for depression? I had very bad experiences with doctors. I got sent to a psychiatrist who put me on Xanax when I was 13. I went back for my next visit, and he had killed himself.

That’s a pretty good story, but is it true? I swear to God. I had to wait for the rest of the hour for my mom to pick me up.

You eventually wound up at New York University, where you dropped out after a year to work in comedy clubs. I didn’t really drop out. I just didn’t go back.

Do you wish your new show were appearing on HBO, if only because Comedy Central bleeps out the swear words? No, I spent two years developing shows at HBO, right before this. I wrote two pilots with Larry Charles. Neither of them was even shot. They’re so good too.

And then you were rescued by Comedy Central. Yes, I’m one of those lucky people who’s attracted to people who like me.

Okay, so there's nothing wrong in being funny. A bit of self-deprecation is alright, too.

Full frontal Judity?

But let's not get carried away Sarah.

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UPDATE

See this article in The New Yorker

HOSTILE ACTS
by TAD FRIEND
“The Sarah Silverman Program” puts the mean back in funny.

Excerpts:-

So “The Sarah Silverman Program,” much the meanest sitcom in years—and one of the funniest—premières this week, perforce, on Comedy Central. Silverman, the telescope-necked comedienne, has had trouble finding the right showcase for the contrary elements of her persona: the post-feminist tomboy who’s sexually cocky and emotionally frigid, the eerily alert counterpuncher who’s totally self-involved. (In her 2005 concert movie, “Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic,” Silverman makes out with her own mirrored image.) She is best known for jarring “The Aristocrats,” the documentary about a legendary joke, with her deadpan claim that “Joe Franklin raped me,” and for dropping the epithet “chinks” into a joke on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” Unlike many comedians, Silverman excavates prejudice less by digging into her own background (though in one episode she insincerely promises “full-frontal Jew-dity”) than by strip-mining the turf of other minorities, particularly blacks and gays. Her game is to throw out stereotypes in a little-girl voice and with a winsome look that suggests no offense can legitimately be taken. You might admire Silverman’s boldness, or you might feel that there’s something sneaky in her appropriation of slurs that never wounded her—that it’s the standup equivalent of the person who cuts in line and then can’t believe you object.

The show’s credits beguile us into anticipating yet another wry, candid-seeming look at a comedian’s private life...The show’s only formal rigor is Sarah’s own: her beefs and run-ins always showcase her intolerance (at the expense of Silverman’s winsome streak). When a driver in a red Ford Focus pulls up alongside her red Ford Focus and cheerily observes, “Hey, same car!,” Sarah parrots his remark with an expression of utter spastic disgust.

...At times, you wonder whether you’re laughing with Silverman or at her, and then you realize that she’s laughing at you.

Silverman dispatches empathy with a kind of emotional judo. When Sarah and an older black woman start chatting at the market, a bond seems possible:

WOMAN: You know, family is the most important thing in life. It’s who you are.
SARAH: That is so wise.
WOMAN: Well, that’s just what comes with being seventy.
SARAH: No, you’re not! There is no way you are seventy! You look too young! . . . (The woman moves in for a hug, but Sarah halts her.) Oh, now that you’re closer I can tell you’re old.

...Touché. The brilliance of the show—the force of its argument that sitcoms turn us into loserish loners—is also its abiding flaw. We admire the purity of Silverman’s scornfulness, but we don’t want to hang out with her the way we did with Mary and Rhoda. Not that she’d let us get that close anyway. “The Sarah Silverman Program” is like a club so exclusive that only the owner can get in—not even God is on the list.