Sarah Silverman - Jesus Is Magic (2008)

53 out of 58 people found the following review helpful:

Painful

A Customer from Manchester, 5th August, 2008

Does anybody find this girl funny? One of the unfunniest and most painful things I have ever sat through.

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37 out of 43 people found the following review helpful:

AWFUL, AWFUL...

canopus from from Leicester, 15th October, 2008

This woman is very popular in America for only one reason and it certainly is not because of her endearing qualities (she has none). She is not at all funny. In fact, she is clearly angry and evil tempered. The sort of person who enjoys insulting and degrading other people. One of the worst dvd's, actress, comedienne, I have ever seen. Avoid at all costs.

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26 out of 27 people found the following review helpful:

Silverman is gold.

A Customer from Worcester, 26th October, 2008

Currently the sharpest, smartest, sassiest, and, let's face it, funniest stand-up going (see the fact that she was the funniest out of the 100 comedians in the documentary, The Aristocrats, for proof).

'I was raped by a doctor, which is... so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.'

Funny like Bill Hicks, funny like Sam Kinison, funny like Lenny Bruce: ie; taboo pricking, diamond sharp and suffused with subtle contextual winks. It's comedy with a tough intellegence - the only comedy that matters, really (nb: she's way funnier than Bruce, btw).

'I want to get an abortion, but my boyfriend and I are having trouble conceiving.'

If Silverman has a target - other than herself - then it isn't ethnic minorities or religion, it is, in fact, lazy thinking. She turns bigoted ideas and stereotypes on themselves. She is a caricuture of the casually offensive. It is transgressive comedy at it's deadpan best.

But never mind all that, let's talk about what a great stand-up she is: standing stock still, yet converying so much with facial expressions, and clear, weighted delivery. Clever wordplay, bait-and-hook double punchlines, the lot.

'I think the Holocaust was totally uncalled for.'

And like all comedy that matters, hers is very divisive. Slate had this to say:

'Through her stand-up, however, Silverman has become an important member of a guerrilla vanguard in the culture wars that we might call the 'meta-bigots'—other members include the South Park kids, Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Ali G', and the now-AWOL Dave Chappelle. The meta-bigots work at social problems indirectly; instead of discussing race, rape, abortion, incest, or mass starvation, they parody our discussions of them. They manipulate stereotypes about stereotypes. It's a dangerous game: If you're humorless, distracted, or even just inordinately history-conscious, meta-bigotry can look suspiciously like actual bigotry.'

Sarah Silverman is funny.

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19 out of 19 people found the following review helpful:

Missing The Point

A Customer from London, 25th October, 2008

I have not seen this particular DVD but have watched some of Sarah Silverman's comedy series on TV and seen her live in London. However, I have to stick up for her against the existing 2 reviews from August & October 2008. I'm doing this so other, more, shall we say, 'enlightened', viewers, will not be put off by misunderstanding of her comedy. It's completely missing the point of her comedy (and alot of contemporary comedy) if you expect her to be 'endearing' and, to see a stage act as proving she is evil and ill-tempered is a bit like saying Woody Allen you see in his films, is the Woody Allen in real life: there will be similarities but, after all, some/most of it is an act. Indeed, I think she is a fine comedy actress. Without dissecting too much, her comedy throws away alot of presumption, expectation, and, yes, she is often intentionally nasty/uncaring as part of her persona. In other words, she surprises (comedy is often full of surprises) and cuts through prissy, conventionalism we often see on TV and in society. So there.

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Laughable, but not in a good way

A Customer from Pontypridd, 7th September, 2009

I've never been a huge fan of Sarah Silverman but decided to give this the benefit of the doubt based on some decent reviews but boy did I regret that decision. Another reviewer here puts her in the same group of dark comedy such as South Park and Ali G. Quite frankly this is insulting to the creative minds of Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Sacha Baron Cohen. I want to make it known that I love black comedy and can take the darkest humour around but the problem here is not that she is offensive just that it is simply incredibly unfunny.

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Slow and painful

A Customer from Gloucester, 2nd September, 2009

Awful show. The pace is so incredibly slow you'll be wondering if she's just forgotten what to say next. 'I'm kooky! I'm Jewish! I'm so sweet, but watch out! I'm going to say something rude and then pause for ages whilst you all sit in silence and marvel at how clever I am.' Songs are like the filler bits at the end of 90's TV show Smack The Pony, but worse.

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Absolute S**t

GammaPulsar from , 25th July, 2009

There isn't a single comedian out there at the moment who I would rather have removed from all existence. There is nothing remotely funny, clever, witty or entertaining about anything in this movie and I hope it and the main actor disappear for the rest of time.

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