Yesterday, NBC picked up a pilot order for a new project starring indie-comedy darling Sarah Silverman, potentially adding it to a lineup that also includes shows by Whitney Cummings (“Whitney”) and Chelsea Handler (“Are You There, Chelsea?”). NBC: Your one stop shop for attractive female comedians joking about their ladyparts! Deadline has some of the details of the new Silverman project:
The half-hour, from 20th Century Fox TV and Imagine TV, is a pet project of Imagine principal Ron Howard. Loosely based on Silverman’s life, the untitled single-camera comedy stars the comedian as a woman readjusting to the single life after a decade-long live-in relationship. Silverman wrote the script with Dan Sterling and Jon Schroeder, who were writer-producers on her self-titled Comedy Central series.
You know how in your group of friends there’s always that one person who everyone else loves, but they kind of rub you the wrong way? Like, they’re nice, and you get along with them, but not nearly as much as the rest of the group? That’s the way I am with Sarah Silverman. As I’ve said before, I’m a pretty big indie/alternative comedy dork (my iTunes is pretty much stuffed with weird, offbeat podcasts). Sarah Silverman is almost universally beloved in that crowd, but she just doesn’t do it for me all the time. I honestly can’t even figure out why. I mean, I’ll definitely give this new show a shot, but I’m not exactly clearing out my DVR in anticipation.
Although, some are speculating that NBC’s decision to pick up this show is bad news for “Whitney.” If that is the case, then please disregard everything I said in the previous paragraph. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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indie-comedy darling Sarah Silverman…
Those words together make about as much sense as “Yahoo Serious Festival.”
You know, it’s really amazing how wanting to fuck someone raises your tolerance bar. I gotta wonder how many dudes Silverman has to wade through whose repetitive interior monologue includes “so you’re telling me there’s a chance” and “you didn’t say no yet.”
Bad news for Whitney, maybe good news for Tig Notaro, meh, I’ll survive.
Wait, Whitney Cummings is attractive?
Wait, Whitney Cummings is a female comedian?
Huh. Coulda fooled me.
NBC’s next move is giving the NBA an exclusive contract.
gross
She was funny on “The League” last week, but other than that….
“The Sarah Silverman Program” had its moments, which is way better than you could say for “Whitney.” Watching that show is like sticking your hand in a garbage disposal.
Well, she was pretty good on The League and the show is single-camera.
“Jesus is Magic” is pretty damn funny. Everything else she does is subjective.
ughhh why do they keep giving money to people like this
NBC does realize there are two very funny, extremely attractive women on that one really great show they are on the verge of cancelling, right?
When this shows fails quickly…and it will…that’s just one big step closer to never having to hear about this chick again. It IS a happy Thanksgiving!
I agree that Sarah Silverman is generally not all that funny, and her annoying to funny ratio is off the charts; HOWEVER, boobs. Basically, what essequemodeia said.
I agree with your assessment. To me, both Sarah Silverman and Whitney Cummings are cut from the same cloth, and by that I mean their routine is “Attractive girl that says dirty/polarizing things for shock value=Comedy!” Give me a non-Gilly Kristen Wig or Tina Fey over them any day.
I haven’t seen enough of these three women to judge whether or not they’re truly funny. They’re all good looking enough to watch the pilot. Then, when it proves to be unfunny, they’ll be less attractive and I’ll never watch the show again.
But Sarah Silverman Show had Patton Oswalt and the Rape Van.
Is this good or bad news for Elayne Boosler?
Say what you will about Sarah Silverman and Whitney Cummings’ standup/comedy stylings/physical appearance (I appear to be somewhere in the middle finding neither of them particularly hilarious but can admit I think they’re both easier on the eyes than some) but I will not stand idly by and have you lump that haunted pirate ship ghost Chelsea Handler into the “attractive” category. No sir!
Silverman has made some great rape jokes. That used to count for something around here.
There’s a good article in the New Yorker explaining exactly why Whitney sucks. Whee, reading!
Ill give the show a shot, but if there’s no close up of her ass my Congressman will hear about it!
Chelsea might be attractive if her personality were less offputting. Whitney’s moderately attractive, and Sarah Silverman’s pretty hot, imo. There’s a direct correlation there with how much I enjoy their respective comedic chops, but I dunno if there’s a causal relationship, or the direction of such causality (if it exists).
Also, why didn’t they just change the name to “Chelsea,” or “Repugnant Lush With Laugh Track” (assumption)? “Are You There, Vodka . . .” was an over-long, unfunny title, but it at least made sense. “Are You There, Chelsea?” doesn’t even have that going for it.
Hey, DG. What podcasts would you recommend?