Sarah Silverman: Funny or not? Hot or not?

It's not like you posted a thread question to him!

haha Anthony, I've seen plenty of people who smirk/scowl all goddamn day who cannot even manage a basic conversation their lack of social skills is so bad. You potentially lose either way. Britney Spears has a big vacant smile but I'd rather have a conversation with her than with Silverman based on tv interviews/specials I've seen with both.

"I like the young guy who plays the new-agey piano. he's short, wears New Balance, does the late-night talk show circuit.

-- Aaron A. (__...), May 8th, 2003."

you mean Zach Galifinakis, host of the short-lived "Late World with Zach" on VH1? that guy is great. so was the show, despite its abysmal ratings.

Mitch Hedberg has some good jokes (especially the one about soup of the day: "we need to make a decision, I want to know what the soup-from-now-on is"), but his schtick is just too much of a Steven Wright ripoff, except he comes off less deadpan and more brain-damaged.

Tina Fey and Sarah Silverman are both funnier than they are hott, but in both cases it's a winning combo.

Ally you are clearly insane

she is kindof a cutie-pie tho.

She's still pretty hot. the dirty mouth thing only holds up if she's a whore in the sack though. And I mean that in a good way. There's nothing worse than someone with a really dirty mouth who is horrible in bed. Especially if this person is attractive.

Yeah, I think Lenny Bruce dates extraordinarilty badly. A routine about Hitler being inducted by a talent agency was riotous and egdy as hell in 1957, I'm sure, but who needs that when you've got Mel Brooks? I admire Lenny Bruce, but he doesn't make me laugh.

i think Lenny Bruce is still funny, but he admittedly requires some getting adjusted to. the first time i heard his stuff i was really disappointed, but i love it now. it helps to read a bit about his life beforehand so you're not totally lost when he starts going on about his court cases (his descriptions of which are totally hysterical).

The writing's a bit much.

Ali G?!

Anyhoo, I hate this line of reasoning, which we've talked about on here before. It's as if there is nothing you can't say, from more well-meaning satire to straight-out racist shit, that you can't retreat from just by saying "Oh, it was just a joke! Get a sense of humor whydoncha!"

I crushed out on SS majorly when she was on Saturday Night Live -- 1993? 1994? Funny.

Okay but on another tip here: what the hell, is Mike Kinsley having an affair with Silverman, or something? Last week there were like three separate Silverman articles on Slate, and one of them kept getting bounced up the sidebar, and then today I log on and her face is like blasting out from the center pane: is she paying them?

I sincerely doubt she deserves the Lenny Bruce comparisons, as she's not been arrested for her craft.