Post #202705 by mrs. pineapple on Mon, Dec 12, 2005 7:10 AM

MR. P and I have been talking about Sarah Silverman for the last few weeks, asking the same question. I consider myself an enlightened, progressive woman, so it's hard for me to call a strong, smart woman a bitch. Mostly because I think women who say things that offend men get called that, because they offend men. But she kinda is, she comes across as mean, not witty or clever, just mean. People called Roseanne a bitch, because she made men uncomfortable and she defied the conventional wisdom as it applies to success in show biz (fat, not pretty) which made everyone uncomfortable. But she was FUNNY, she wasn't mean the way Silverman is mean. I think people confuse the type of 'humor' Silverman does (along with Howard Stern, and Jimmy Kimmel) as edgy, because it makes people squirm, it's funny the way a jock picking on the fat kid in gym class is funny, you laugh because you're uncomfortable, not because you're thinking about what they said.

What's funny to me? The Daily Show or Stephen Colbert make me think about the world and laugh at the irony and contradictions, Arrested Development makes me laugh because of its hyper-awareness to popular culture and its layers and depth and innuendo, because it's subtle and bashes you over the head at the same time.

It's sad because Pamela Anderson's roast is a reflection of what TV viewers will watch, boobie and peepee jokes and Andy Dick and Courtney Love bringing the train wreck that is their lives into our homes. Comedy Central does give us The Daily Show, the Colbert Report and Reno 911, so we can cut them some slack.