My daughter had dinner with Sarah Silverman last night.

[trof]

She's in Boston doing a standup gig with Bob Saget.
They both appeared in "The Aristocrats".

Daughter and son-in-law are high school chums of hers.
My daughter says "She's even funnier than she was in high school, and she was a stitch then."
She comped them front row seats at the performance.
Ah, the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
;-)

[Bunny]

1. That's pretty cool, trof.

I'm not real familiar with Sarah, but I've heard that she's pretty funny.

:hi:

[trof]

2. She is, but a bit 'rough' for my sedate years.

;-)
I remember her at one sleepover at our house.
I thought "This is the funniest kid I've ever seen".
And all just absolutley deadpan.

[Bunny]

3. Yeah, I've heard she's got quite a mouth.

Sounds like my kind of gal! :thumbsup:

Of course, you old geezers may think differently. :hide:
;)

[astonamous]

4. I'm not sure if Sarah Silverman ever did but

I know Bob Saget made Richard Pryor blush...I have a great picture of Pryor laughing after Saget whispered a joke into his ears. It's a great picture that was taken a couple of years ago.

On Edit: I like Sarah Silverman. I love the way she makes people squirm trying to decide if they should laugh or not. It's usually a moral dilema. :blush:

Trudy
www.pryorsplanet.com
www.richardpryor.com

[idgiehkt]

6. that's a perfect description of what she does

thanks.

half the time my verdict is still out on her but you are right, she really does make people parse a little bit before they laugh (or don't).

[driver8]

11. I know a couple of comics out here in Los Angeles. One of them told me

that Bob Saget can be pretty "raunchy".

Did any of you see him on "Entourage"?

[latebloomer]

12. You wanna hear "raunchy"?

But you have to be prepared for REALLY raunchy-- not everybody's cuppa tea, but hilarious.

Rent "The Aristocrats", with Bob, Sarah, and a host of other comedians, including George Carlin, Robin Willians, Chris Rock, Phyllis Diller, and many many more, each putting their own spin on a gross old chestnut of a joke.

[driver8]

15. One of the guys I know is briefly in that movie.

I haven't seen it, but my friend said that he didn't want to tell the joke. He does a lot of corporate gigs and works clean -- no swearing. He didn't want to put a damper on that "gravy train" in any way.

[NJ Democrats]

5. Cool

[stanwyck]

7. I like her. She was the ONLY bright spot

on Colin Quinn's wretched show on The Comedy Channel. She wasn't a regular. She's also very funny in The Aristocrats. She's been in a few movies, too.

[zonkers]

8. self delete.

[zonkers]

9. self delete.

[trof]

10. Good article about her in the New Yorker:

Silverman is thirty-four and coltish, with shiny black hair and a china-doll complexion. Her arms are long and her center of gravity is low: she is five feet seven, and moves like a vervet monkey. Onstage, she is beguilingly calm. She speaks clearly and decorously. “Quiet depravity” is how Michael McKean, who was with her in the cast of “Saturday Night Live” (she was a writer and a featured player for the 1993-94 season), describes her demeanor.

The persona she has crafted is strangely Pollyanna-ish and utterly absorbed in her own point of view: “I wear this St. Christopher medal sometimes because—I’m Jewish, but my boyfriend is Catholic—it was cute the way he gave it to me. He said if it doesn’t burn through my skin it will protect me.” In another of her bits, she invokes the events of September 11th: “They were devastating. They were beyond devastating. I don’t want to say especially for these people, or especially for those people, but especially for me, because it happened to be the same exact day that I found out that the soy chai latte was, like, nine hundred calories. I had been drinking them every day. You hear soy, you think healthy. And it’s a lie.” Her constructions are minimal but the turn is sharp. “I was raped by a doctor,” she says. “Which is so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.”
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/051024fa_fact

[TommyO]

13. Very cool, trof!

I haven't seen a lot of her work, but I have heard her on the Howard Stern show, and she *IS* funny! I also like the fact that she hasn't forgotten her high school friends, that's a very big plus in my book.

[WilliamPitt]

14. Ah, Sarah. Another future ex-Mrs. Pitt