Sarah Silverman: Funny or not? Hot or not?

Her descriptions of the 3 r'n'b American Music Award nominees (Robin Thicke, Justin Timberlake, Rihana)

The soul and R&B award was presented by comedian Sarah Silverman, who joked that Rihanna, a woman of color, was going up against "a white guy from 'The Mickey Mouse Club' (Timberlake) and the son of the dad from 'Growing Pains' (Robin Thicke)." When Timberlake accepted the award, he joked back that it was the "first time I've ever been racially profiled by a white woman."

Saw a little of her most recent special last night. While it wasn't great overall, she made a pretty good non-funny point that hit me as a dad -- basically, that telling a girl "You can be anything you want when you grow up," is a little like telling someone "Don't worry, I'm not going to read your diary while you're in the shower."

Watched "I Smile Back" last night. It is not a good movie, but she is pretty good in it.

I thought it was pretty good for the two-thirds of the film where she wasn't drugging or drinking. I even thought at one point (not knowing the novel) that it was going to accomplish the miraculous--not have the mandatory relapse, where the rule seems to be the more brutal the more authentic. So of course that's where it headed, and immediately after probably the best sequence in the film, her son's recital. I don't know what the point of this checklist is. We've seen it in every addiction movie ever, and the scene with the Springsteen guy was especially ugly.

The performances were fine--liked the husband too.

https://www.facebook.com/SarahSilverman/posts/1160269914023100

Hi. This is me telling everyone in my life at once why I haven't been around. This will not interest everyone so feel free to disregard.
I was in the ICU all of last week and I am insanely lucky to be alive. Don't even know why I went to the doctor, it was just a sore throat. But I had a freak case of epiglottitis.
I owe my life to Dr. Shawn Nasseri, Dr. Robert Naruse, Dr. Rob Huizenga, every nurse, and every technician & orderly at Cedars who's punch-the-clock jobs happen to save human lives on the regular.
There's something that happens when three people you're so close to die within a year and then YOU almost die but don't. (That was me. I'm the one that didn't die.) It's a strange dichotomy between, "Why me?" and the other, "Why me?"
They couldn't put me fully to sleep for the recovery process because my blood pressure's too low. I was drugged just enough to not feel the pain and have no idea what was happening or where I was. They had to have my hands restrained to keep me from pulling out my breathing tube. My friend Stephanie said I kept writing "was I in an accident?"
When I woke up 5 days later I didn't remember anything. I thanked everyone at the ICU for my life, went home, and then slowly as the opiates faded away, remembered the trauma of the surgery & spent the first two days home kind of free-falling from the meds / lack of meds and the paralyzing realization that nothing matters. Luckily that was followed by the motivating revelation that nothing matters.
I'm so moved by my real-life hero, Michael, and amazing Sissies (blood & otherwise) & friendos, who all coordinated so that there wasn't a moment I was alone. It makes me cry. Which hurts my throat. So stop.
Anyway there are some funny stories too.
I couldn't speak for a while and I don't remember a lot of my "lucid" time, but Amy (the Zvi) told me I stopped a nurse - like it was an emergency - furiously wrote down a note and gave it to her. When she looked at it, it just said, "Do you live with your mother?" next to a drawing of a penis.
Also, when I first woke up and the breathing tube came out, I still couldn't talk and they gave me a board of letters to communicate. My loved ones stood there, so curious what was going to be the first thing I had to say. They followed my finger, rapt, as I pointed from letter to letter until I finally spelled out, "Did you see 'Hello My Name is Doris.'"

I love you all. Your friend,
Sarah

Wow.

shes sort of hot. and sometimes admittedly funny. but i have next to no interest or care in her health and wellbeing. in fact i have an interest in the opposite.

Oh nice. Thanks for dropping by.

that wasnt a dig at you, more just that i dont really consider her to be an esp 'good' or 'nice' person. she doesnt have to be of course but doesnt mean i have to like her either.

eat a dick

I had a freak sore throat situation last year and thought I was going to die. (Doctors didnt think so... It was mostly my paranoia bc they couldnt find an effective treatment for a few months). Relate to Ms Silverman's experience here.

"eat a dick"

aww

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I did as well.

I have attempted to threadban him. Sometimes that function works, sometimes it does not. Continue to FP if necessary.

I dunno, guys, I think it's fairly considerate when someone stops into a thread to not only indicate their general lack of interest in the person(s) being discussed but also their investment in the accelerated demise of said person(s). It save us the time and hassle of asking every registered user whether they're dumb idiots who suck.

fwiw I think Sarah Silverman seems like a very nice person

was this precipitated @ all by her being a weed smoker

glad shes ok

forgive me for thinking the person behind any number of 'ironic racism' gags about Asians and blacks might not actually be the nicest person...

you should study up on her

"ironic racism" is not accurate

Like, not even in the slightest.

Her comedy has a much bigger heart than most imo.

anyway, was shocked to see this, very glad she's okay. Plenty of things I disagree w her about (Bernie, Israel etc.) but really feel she's a valuable comedic voice and just a sweet person.

jesus christ StillAdvance she's not fucking Scalia or something
im gonna FP u
never done this before
so out of nowhere wtf dude
*wow emoji*
#brave
fuck you

leading with "she's sort of hot" before wishing that she had died is next level

now you've got me singing "I'm fucking Scalia" to the tune of "I'm fucking Matt Damon"

im not really fond of a lot of her sort of humour but commenting on a woman's attractiveness and following that up with wishing them physical harm is p much never ok.

whereas commenting on a woman's actuarial skills and following that up with wishing them physical harm is ok 48% of the time

Is there an app for negotiating the situation-dependent moral calculus of wishing a woman physical harm?

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Dear Miss Manners...

xposts. I wanted Thatcher to die and that's about it as far as wishing harm on a woman as I go but it's quite a different context than "I want this kind of hot comedian woman to die".

whereas commenting on a woman's actuarial skills and following that up with wishing them physical harm is ok 48% of the time

ok lol

Is there an app for negotiating the situation-dependent moral calculus of wishing a woman physical harm?

― some anal dread (Old Lunch), Thursday, July 7, 2016 2:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

There actually is! It's on the Google Play store (and maybe the iTunes store?) under the name Hip Hop Air Horn.

How it works:
1) Open the app
2) Locate the big red button
3) Say loudly and clearly into the microphone the name of the woman you wish physical harm on.
4) Say why. Avoid using anything beyond a simple subject-verb-predicate, keep it in the present tense. The language processing isn't there yet.
5) Press the big red button.
6) If it goes "MERRRRRRRRRRR", you are in the wrong.
7) If it doesn't make the sound, turn up your volume and try again.
8) Fuck off.

*pushes hotness slider to the right*

whereas commenting on a woman's actuarial skills and following that up with wishing them physical harm is ok 48% of the time

― volumetric god rays (DJP), Thursday, 7 July 2016 18:41 (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah man god bless you djp

whereas commenting on a woman's actuarial skills and following that up with wishing them physical harm is ok 48% of the time

― volumetric god rays (DJP)

does anybody have any opinions on sarah silverman's actuarial skills? or does that just immediately turn into anti-semitism?

she's a shitty actuary. nearly tanked my fortune 500 company single handedly.

I think the "hot or not" came from the original thread title, which...??...wtf is that about

different era of ilx

and of america

we're so much better now, phew.

that Cub and his 13-year slowburners!

jesus. i only bothered to comment on her apparent hotness as that was in the thread title. i dont actually want her to die, or suffer, i just dont care for her. i didnt realise that people were so precious about what i see as simply a kind of gallows humour. im sure she wouldnt mind, yknow, cos shes just so cool and EDGY and everything. you are acting like im DMing her on twitter with vicious messages explaining in nasty detail how im going to dismember her or something. regardless, i am sure she will be fine, and you white knights will all get to enjoy her fabulously clever and cutting jokes for many years to come.

Edgy! Love it.

What's the opposite of edgy?

me wrapped up in a crocheted woollen blanket peering through my reading glasses for the fp button and then jabbing it.

^knitwit

not really very ahem white knight-like unless SS actually *is* reading this thread?