Spring Break
Silverman Keeps Audiences Entertained
Sara Grant
Issue date: 10/9/07 Section: Focus
Religion, abortion and homosexuality are sensitive topics for most, but not for comedian Sarah Silverman. Last season her Comedy Central show, "The Sarah Silverman Program," premiered and she made herself known by addressing sensitive topics from a different angle than most, and season two is no different.
"The Sarah Silverman Program" stars Silverman, who plays a character of the same name whose wacky daily life is told through narrative and the occasional song.
"In each episode, Sarah falls into unique, unsettling and always hilarious predicaments, with her sister, her nerdy gay neighbors Brian and Steve and dim-witted Officer Jay never far from her side," according a press release said.
Season two premiered on Oct. 3 with "Bored of the Rings," where Silverman discovers that the community group she joined for the delicious lemon bars is a radical anti-abortion group determined to bomb the clinic where her sister Laura, played by her real-life sister of the same name, volunteers. At the same time, an intense game of "Dungeons and Dragons" threatens Steve and Brian's relationship when it interferes with a scheduled date. The show culminates with everyone coming together to save Laura, with most of the men still dressed in costume for their game.
In "Joan of Arf," the second episode of the season, animal services takes Silverman's dog, Doug, into custody because of "human initiated inter-species relations" after a mail woman catches Silverman licking the dog's bottom. No one takes her seriously when she says she wanted to see how it tasted because he was always licking himself, so Doug is taken away and Silverman is labeled as "the woman who licked her dog's butt" by everyone in town.
Silverman tries to heal herself by going to rehab with drug addicts and robbers, but they reassure her that she is just a curious eccentric like Einstein or Galileo, so she hires a lawyer and takes the case to court. In the end, bestiality becomes legal and her case is dismissed. As always, the show ends with Silverman saying goodnight to Doug while sharing the satirical revelation of the day.
"The Sarah Silverman Program" stars Silverman, who plays a character of the same name whose wacky daily life is told through narrative and the occasional song.
"In each episode, Sarah falls into unique, unsettling and always hilarious predicaments, with her sister, her nerdy gay neighbors Brian and Steve and dim-witted Officer Jay never far from her side," according a press release said.
Season two premiered on Oct. 3 with "Bored of the Rings," where Silverman discovers that the community group she joined for the delicious lemon bars is a radical anti-abortion group determined to bomb the clinic where her sister Laura, played by her real-life sister of the same name, volunteers. At the same time, an intense game of "Dungeons and Dragons" threatens Steve and Brian's relationship when it interferes with a scheduled date. The show culminates with everyone coming together to save Laura, with most of the men still dressed in costume for their game.
In "Joan of Arf," the second episode of the season, animal services takes Silverman's dog, Doug, into custody because of "human initiated inter-species relations" after a mail woman catches Silverman licking the dog's bottom. No one takes her seriously when she says she wanted to see how it tasted because he was always licking himself, so Doug is taken away and Silverman is labeled as "the woman who licked her dog's butt" by everyone in town.
Silverman tries to heal herself by going to rehab with drug addicts and robbers, but they reassure her that she is just a curious eccentric like Einstein or Galileo, so she hires a lawyer and takes the case to court. In the end, bestiality becomes legal and her case is dismissed. As always, the show ends with Silverman saying goodnight to Doug while sharing the satirical revelation of the day.
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anna
posted 11/13/08 @ 12:57 AM EST
One of the highlights of the controversial joke flick The Aristocrats, Sarah Silverman breaks out on her own in a performance film called Sarah Silverman Jesus Is Magic. (Continued…)
Roberto.c
posted 4/10/09 @ 9:59 PM EST
Hi guys, intervention is a best way to overcome the drug addiction. So, please encourage your family members or friends to go on with intervention if they drug addicted. (Continued…)
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