The Sarah Silverman Program, Season Two, Volume One. Out tomorrow. (*********9/10)
Paramount Home Entertainment is releasing Season Two of one of my favourite TV shows on October 14th. The Sarah Silverman Program is not just one of my favourite TV shows in the world, it stars one of my favourite people in the world. Sarah Silverman is reasonably attractive. In fact, she’s pretty. But that’s not why I love her. She is hilarious, but again, that’s not her best quality. The reason I have told my girlfriend I would leave her for Sarah Silverman is that she has absolutely no boundaries. At all. Think of the most offensive joke you can, and how that joke could be made even more offensive, with the addition of racial humour, or toilet humour, or an extra bit of dialogue about AIDS. Sarah Silverman has already thought of it all, and is a few steps ahead of you. She has crossed the line you’ve imagined, taken it three steps further, and added something else that YOU would never in a million years have thought of saying.
And the best thing about this humour - it all works! The Sarah Silverman Program is one of the smartest, funniest, most offensive shows in the history of television. In Season Two, she joins a radical anti-abortion group without understanding what they’re all about, then quits because she really loves having abortions. She wears blackface for an entire episode, in a bizarre bet with a black friend as to who has it tougher - blacks or jews. Oh, and her mother has her corpse defiled by grave robbers, and she licks her own dog’s anus.
It’s easy to find humour this offensive on the internet and even elsewhere on TV. But nowhere else is it done with such a whimsical sense of fun, or such a brilliantly subversive stroke of genius. Check out this TV series. Do it today. This is what humour is supposed to be.