“The second season of The Sarah Silverman Program premieres Wednesday night on Comedy Central. If you missed the first season, you’re in luck. It is released on DVD today. Hopefully it will be on sale for about $15, considering it only has six episodes.”
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The second season of The Sarah Silverman Program premieres Wednesday night on Comedy Central.
If you missed the first season, you’re in luck.
It is released on DVD today.
Hopefully it will be on sale for about $15, considering it only has six episodes.
Unless you’re a Silverman fan, you should probably watch the first episode of the new season before you make the purchase.
Silverman’s humor appeals to a specific audience, one that probably doesn’t want to admit to it.
Expect a lot of self-absorption, sexual talk, immaturity and bathroom humor.
If that sounds entertaining, then this is the show for you.
Wednesday’s episode is a splendid take on abortion. Silverman is unwittingly drawn into a pro-life group, lured by the promise of lemon bars.
One gem from this episode: Silverman makes a protest sign that reads, Babies should say ‘goo,’ not become it.
Sure, The Sarah Silverman Program isn’t going to go down in TV history with the likes of All In The Family, MASH or Seinfeld, but that probably isn’t what viewers of this show are looking for.
After all, one of last season’s episodes dealt with … uncontrollable noises emanating from a woman’s nether region.
No, not flatulence, but you’re getting warm.
Silverman is the queen of brutality and she spares no one.
In the first season, she managed to bring homosexuals, lesbians, blacks, Asians, Jews and the homeless into her material.
Indeed, the entire episode Muffin’ Man was about Silverman coming out as a lesbian. In the end, she realized she was wrong, just as she is about, well, everything.
Surrounded by her sister and her gay neighbors – or gaybors, as Silverman refers to them – and her sister’s boyfriend, a cop who has no tolerance for Silverman’s antics, she manages to carry a thin storyline to its completion.
In large part, she accomplishes it with her trademark cynicism and sharply biting wit.
Once, the relatively unhairy Silverman spoke with envy of her sister’s vag, saying it looked like Cat Stevens’ face.
Another time, she reminisced about the ’90s.
I watched In Living Color because that’s what was funny back then.
Is The Sarah Silverman Program good? It depends.
With this show, you don’t have to think. It’s irreverent, vicious and in-your-face.
At times, the show gets carried away with itself to the point of ridiculousness, but not enough to where you want to change the channel. Not just yet, anyway.
You’ll at least want to stick with it until next week, when Silverman takes on bestiality and gay marriage.
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