Sarah Silverman: PostMortem

I generally enjoy Sara Silverman's comedy, i find it smart and creative, she is a great storyteller. This specific piece is very honest and a very well narrated story about her personal journey with her parents, at some points it gets sad and depressing, but she is a mature comic that teaches us that you can always find a silver lining on every situation.

Maybe the problem is that this material is the kind you expect to hear on a comedy special, and you start watching thinking about a great time with a witty comic, but after a few minutes you realise that it is quite dense, not very funny. It does not mean it is a bad special, i would just suggest to be aware that this is not the kind of show you want to watch if you want a big laugh.

Better than expected.

It started slowly though, since I get to see it randomly, I didn't really know what to expect.

I was not really familiar with Sarah's comedy before.

And initially, as I said, I thought it might not be any good.

But then as it unfolded, it got really funny.

You know, it's rare when jokes actually make you laugh out loud in front of your TV, but that's what happened.

It must be hard. Grieving is hard. Yet it can be a bit easier with humour. Yet the humour must be right.

And I do believe that this is a wise example, a high quality sample of such a humour, it really got to me.

I was surprised when it's ended, I wanted more, it was a bittersweet symphony, I loved it.

It's not the best show ever, it's probably not even the best Sarah's show, I guess cause it's mainly about her personally, about her grief and its not a default stand up topic, sure, but it was funny.

And ironically, I guess that's how you want to go, that's how you want yourself to be remembered - with laughter of joy, not with plain tears...

I never known this woman, so I guess I don't have to care about her personal stuff, but she is cunning and smart, and I can relate to most of the things she said, I respect that.

Its a good show. I guess, if you really don't get it at all now, you probably will in time.

Sarah absolutely jerks you from cute family story to heartfelt, sentimental memories, to deep, dark gallows humor, then randomly hits each note like a bop-it. As someone with a fairly comparable age and story of loss, it hit like a brick, then made me cackle in the darkest of ways. A memorable laugh/cry for sure.

I'm sure it's a miss for some, but I am just personally an absolute bullseye of a target audience on this one. It is pure catharsis. It will challenge what you find funny and you'll probably think it's weird that a stand up comic is making you cry, be it for sympathy or empathy. Enjoy!!

A cringeworthy bomb from a comedian who can and has done SO MUCH better. I was excited to watch it and unfortunately I found myself fast forwarding through most of it. Her pauses to wait for audience applause are painful and terrible "impressions" fall incredibly flat. When a comedian has to laugh at their own jokes to get things moving along, you know you're in for a slow ride. Sarah seems to have lost her spark and natural sense of humour. Save yourself an hour and skip this one...instead try checking out The Sarah Silverman Show. This "special" may end up being the postmortem for her comedy career.

I watched about half of her show so far due to limitations of my own but so far I love it Silverman is someone who I really didn't think was that funny and I'm talking about you know 30 years ago OK when I go back and look at her stuff even 20 years ago I find that she actually is quite funny quite good at what she does unique in her delivery and reading these negative comments about her Flips me out. Who are you people? I'm glad you don't like Sarah Silverman put your red hats on and go away.

So now I write to fulfill a technicality on this site I love Sarah and believe that her humor and delivery are funny and funnier each time her humor is intelligent maybe some of you that so clearly dislike her should just crawl off and away from the rest of us with the lack of females in comedy and late night etc we need her voice now more than ever.