New book by Sarah Silverman is more Talmudic filth

maz · May 14, 2010, 08:41:31 PM

QuoteComedian Chelsea Handler has written three memoirs. Kathy Griffin wrote one, too. And now comes "The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee" by the most subversive of stand-up comics, Sarah Silverman (Harper, $25.99).

But Silverman, as always, is an outlier. Griffin begs us to like her. Handler doesn't care one way or the other. But Silverman dares us to like her and tries to make it as hard as possible.

"My teeth were bigger than my face, I was coated in hair, and I smelled like pee," she writes of herself in childhood, when she was sent to summer camp even though she was a chronic bedwetter. "Of course, most events in life are about context. Had my parents instead sent me to live in the Baboon Reserve at the Bronx Zoo, I would have been happy and confident, judging the others for flinging poo and feeling downright aristocratic."

"The Bedwetter" is meant to be funny, and it is. But the book is not merely a collection of "fart jokes and blasphemy," which is how Silverman herself sums up her career. She is sly, smart, wry and ironic. She is always willing and even eager to disclose the darkest secrets about herself. She writes in frank detail about the affliction of bedwetting that persisted into adolescence, for example, and the discovery that her psychiatrist had committed suicide while young Sarah was sitting in the waiting room. All of these harrowing experiences are raw material for comedy, but the sharp edges poke through the jokes.

The best example I can give is a telling childhood recollection that somehow predicts the trajectory of Silverman's comic style. She writes about the death of her parents' second child, a baby boy named Jeffrey, who accidentally suffocated in his crib while in the care of his grandparents while the parents were on vacation. The family coped with the tragedy, which happened before Sarah was born, by ignoring it: "My parents' friends cleaned up any sign of Jeffrey's existence by the time they got home," she writes. "He was imagined."

When Sarah was 5, she and her sisters were out for a drive with their beloved Nana, the same grandmother who had discovered the dead baby in his crib. Nana admonished the girls to put on their seatbelts. Sarah was already a budding comic: "[W]ithout a beat I said ... 'Yeah — put yer seatbelts on — you don't wanna end up like Jeffrey!' " She expected an appreciative laugh, but her joke was greeted with stunned silence. "And after several excruciating seconds, Nana broke the silence with an explosion of sobs."

Like so many other stand-up comics, she trades on her Jewishness — or, as she puts it, her "Jewiness" — but makes no concessions to Jewish sensibilities. Here's what she writes about her publisher's response to her suggested title for the book: "[T]o say they were underwhelmed by 'Tales of a Horse-Faced Jew-Monkey' would be like saying that Hitler was underwhelmed by the Jews." She cracks a joke about one of her sisters — a rabbi who lives on a kibbutz in Israel — by pointing out that she married a man named Abramowitz. "When I was on 'SNL,' I did a bit about this for 'Weekend Update,' in which I suggested that my sister and her husband just rename themselves 'The Jews.' " And when she devotes a whole chapter to her Jewish identity, it is only because her "Jew editor" made her do it.

"To be honest, I would like to go about my life exploiting the subject of Jewishness for comedy, and not be saddled with the responsibility to actually represent, defend or advance the cause of the Jewish people," she explains. "Nevertheless, my Jew editor convinced me to write a chapter on Jewiness by using one of our culture's greatest tools of persuasion: nagging."

Silverman argues that her scatological humor ought to be especially appealing to a Jewish audience. "[M]any Jews cannot be stopped from discussing what goes on in their GI tracts — the GI tract of a Jew over age 23 is a true melodrama reminiscent of the Old Testament: sudden mass exodus, long arduous journeys, floods, futility, agony, questioning God's wisdom and lactose intolerance," she writes. "So the things I talk about are not blasphemy to Jewish people."

(I tried to read the passage quoted above to my wife. but I couldn't get through it without breaking into laughter. It's funny because it's true.)

Curiously, but tellingly, Silverman seems to lose interest in the whole project about halfway through the book. She barely mentions her famously failed romance with Jimmy Kimmel, but she reproduces at length various adolescent diary entries, answering-machine messages from her father, e-mail exchanges with her long-suffering editor and interoffice memos regarding her Comedy Channel show, "The Sarah Silverman Program." Along with the charming family snapshots that appear in the book, she includes a close-up of a penis belonging to one of the writers on her show. "This is writer Harris Wittels's penis," she notes. "I wouldn't want him to go uncredited here."

Silverman herself admits that "writing this book is a gigantic pain in the ass," and she is no more boastful about her literary aspirations than she is about any other aspect of her life. "Whose jackass idea was it for me to write a book anyway?"

The question is rhetorical, and her own answer may be the best way to describe what "The Bedwetter" is all about.

"I'm not writing this book to share wisdom or to inspire people," she says. "I'm writing this book because I am a famous comedian, which is how it works now. If you're famous, you get to write a book, and not the other way around, so the next Dave Eggers better get a TV show or kill someone or something."

SolusInAeternum2 · May 14, 2010, 09:54:50 PM

QuoteJews love any Jewish public figure. "You know that serial killer, Son of Sam? Jewish!" When the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal broke, I wasn't happy that our president had an affair, but I was kind of tickled to bits that it was with this sassy, chubby Jewess. Even expressions of outright anti-Semitism can be good for the Jews. Bless Mel Gibson for his drunken rant about Jews this and Jews that; here was something you could point to as evidence that Jew-hating isn't just some abstract concept in the ether. It exists here and now, even right out in the open. Besides, in America, where Jews represent only 2.2 percent of the population, I guess any press is good press.

QuoteJews also don't seem to believe in Hell. That's a nifty feature for a faith.
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Of course, some people need Hell. If you're the type of guy who sees a hooker in an alleyway and instinctively thinks, Hey, now there's something I could rape and kill without any consequences, then the concept of Hell might really keep you out of trouble.

LordLindsey · May 14, 2010, 10:32:25 PM

She knows what she is doing, and it is NOT humor for the sake of humor--she is showing you the world that will be their "Paradise" *Heaven-on-Earth* once tthe Protocols are fulfilled and each and every one of the Zionist Jews are "literally" gods unto themselves.

This is nothing more than a revolting joke upon humanity telling "the people" what is in store for them; all of that degradation, humiliation, and arrogance will be levelled against those foolish goyim who find her "humor" funny...

until they realize that it wasn't exactly just some woman cracking jokes, but a representative using humor to smear shit in their faces letting "the people" know how truly stupid they really were. This is merely my opinion, but I defy anyone to give an argument to convince me that I am wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPiFhjCxXpk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5S14Ci2GY8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bObItmx ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOX4UGnO ... re=related

The last video is making-fun of those foolish Hollywood goyim who try to fit-in by using a very low-level of Kabbalah, and her arrogance at doing her job REALLY shows because it no longer is "comedy" but a lecture about the superiority of "their" brand of mysticism because she is alluding to the fact that "they" truly do believe that they are gods within themselves towards the end. You have to understand that concept to catch her allusion to this, but it is there in no un-certain terms.

Sarah Silverman--representative from the controllers to "the people" to let them know what their apathy has already done AND WHAT WILL BE THE FUTURE for them once that veil is completely lifted and, to further push-home my point using an analogy to which we are ALL aware, Senator Palpatine no longer feels it necessary to hide the fact that he is, indeed, the Sith Lord. All my opinions, of course, but PLEASE tell me that I am wrong and show me so that I can try to convince myself that this joke upon humanity can not be this simple.

LINDSEY

MonkeySeeMonkeyDo · May 14, 2010, 11:58:03 PM

This talentless Jewess -- Sarah Silverman -- is part of the plan to destroy morals and decency in American and Western society. She's a subverter of the goy mind, like all Jewish comedians and Jewish Hollywood movies. This Zionist slut, like all Hollywood stars, is a tool of the Elders of Zion.

Holocaust propaganda and terrible comedy all in one!
[youtube:3amkk6v8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6E9sJ6B-u8[/youtube]3amkk6v8]

"Good, I hope the jews did kill christ. I'd fuckin do it again!" - Sarah Snakeman
[youtube:3amkk6v8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyywGNUx7SI[/youtube]3amkk6v8]

CrackSmokeRepublican · May 15, 2010, 01:17:09 AM

Typical Nation-Wrecking Jew IMHO...

Do you think she is Shephardic or Ashkenazi or maybe both? I see a little Neanderthal in her gestures...?

jai_mann · May 15, 2010, 02:22:00 AM

I'm thinking Ashkenazi. The eyes and facial features strike me as similar to other Askenazim. What I'd like to know, is who would pay to listen to her stupid shit for an evening? It's not funny. I'd assume it's a bunch of other arrogant jews who pay to have their egos inflated as they shit upon the peoples they enslave through government/corporate apparati. Fuck this stupid, arrogant beeyatch.

Ahmed · May 15, 2010, 08:59:07 PM

Sarah Silverman is a self styled Esther whilst Gentiles are Haman and Cyrus rolled into one: Enablers and Victims; there aren't any others in the Talmudic mindset.

One for all you Sarah Silverman lovers out there.

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CrackSmokeRepublican · May 30, 2010, 09:05:09 PM

Sep 25 2008
Sarah Silverman endorses Barack Obama - by insulting black people

Sarah Silverman endorses Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama in this video that encourages her fellow Jews to blackmail their Florida-residing grandparents into voting for Obama. I posted it because I know how much you guys love when celebrities talk about politics. It's your favorite

NOTE: Video is NSFW due to language such as fuck, shit, damn and brisket.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id= ... llscreen=1

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1808434&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

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