Sarah Silverman Live!

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So I was privy to seeing Ms Sarah Silverman perform at the U of M last night. Anyone who has seen her before knows that she carries the stigma of being a shock comic. She does touch on a number of taboo subjects but it is a great disservice to say she isn’t a smart performer, writer, and snap quick comedienne. Possibly her best portion of the show was when she opened up to the crowd for Q & A. Sarah and her opener and question regulating side kick Tig Notaro, managed to deflect, embrace, and convert what were mostly asinine questions including the prerequisite buzz words ‘penis’ or ‘vagina’ into split second side splitting humor. Highlights of the Q & A were as simple as asking a gentleman if he knew he was gay when prompted with the question of his never ending singledom, to the complex when she called back a previous raunchy question about blowjobs to answer how to solve world hunger (paraphrasing: “Get a bunch of horny dudes to go over to Africa to tell those kids ‘suck my dick’, I mean its protein”). 

All in all it was a great night of comedy, which I though was pretty evident until leaving my friend and I overheard a patron complaining about her transitions between jokes. Not sure what they were watching, I guess the segue between her childhood showering with her mom’s 70’s Jew bush and having her eyebrow (singular) waxed wasn’t evident enough. I might have payed closer attention to each transition, but I was too busy laughing and enjoying myself. 

written by Airreck