Sarah Silverman: "My Racist Jokes Are Very Well Thought-Out and Planned"
Like a lot of people (excluding Joe Franklin), we enjoy the comedic stylings of the tawdry Sarah Silverman, and we've been fans ever since she was unceremoniously fired from Saturday Night Live via fax in the mid-90s (her SNL tenure was brilliantly parodied by her turn on The Larry Sanders Show). In other words, we've been in her alt-com corner for a long time, and we understand all of the recent media attention she's garnered, mainly for her role in The Aristocrats and her movie Jesus Is Magic. The debut of her new self-reflective sitcom on Comedy Central (The Sarah Silverman Program, which airs tonight at 10:30 p.m. EST) has brought forth yet another outpouring of ravish reviews and attempts to analyze her acid wit.
In other words, it's a typical press barrage.
Eat The Press | Peter Hyman | February 1, 2007 05:55 PM