Post by pistachioofliberty on Dec 25, 2005 1:51:49 GMT -4
Sarah Silverman's [virtually] one-woman show. Very...uh - unique.
We went on Christmas Eve, so we are surely going to hell. But it was worth it. I have a hard time imagining what kind of FTer/CPMCoGer/TWoPer would not be alternately peeing their pants, gasping and dying of jealously at half the jokes. You might find the remainder of the material either okay-now-that's-just-too-much offensive, or not completely baked.
I felt myself riveted by the reactions the family in right in front of us: a 50-ish couple with what seemed to be their mother and their adult kids. I can't say for sure that they were Jewish, but they laughed and nudged during almost all the Jewish jokes AND - would 3 generations of a Christian family on Christmas Eve choose to spend it at THIS film? During the conversation I eavesdropped on, I learned that the gramma "wasn't sure at first, but think I enjoyed it". I did see her white head bobbing with laughter thoughout, except during the rawest of the poosy jokes and the "You're Gonna Die Soon" number at the nursing home. I could have done without that myself. They is something to entertain and offend everybody here, even white people. It inspired a long conversation afterward, which I think is a great reason to spend 9 bucks. There's a lot of talk about political correctness, but this forces us to ask where exactly to draw the line.
What I do find worrisome about this genre is exposing stereotypes to those heretofore oblivious to them. As a girl, our Orthodox neighbors and their kids were my second family; did I need to suddenly know that they "loved money"? Because that has SO not been my experience.
The I wonder what it would be like to see this in the privacy of one's home, where one won't have to predict the social ramifications of laughing at certain jokes. Though at our screening, Jesus Is Magic was preceded by a very compelling trailer for Protocols of Zion, a great appetizer.
We went on Christmas Eve, so we are surely going to hell. But it was worth it. I have a hard time imagining what kind of FTer/CPMCoGer/TWoPer would not be alternately peeing their pants, gasping and dying of jealously at half the jokes. You might find the remainder of the material either okay-now-that's-just-too-much offensive, or not completely baked.
I felt myself riveted by the reactions the family in right in front of us: a 50-ish couple with what seemed to be their mother and their adult kids. I can't say for sure that they were Jewish, but they laughed and nudged during almost all the Jewish jokes AND - would 3 generations of a Christian family on Christmas Eve choose to spend it at THIS film? During the conversation I eavesdropped on, I learned that the gramma "wasn't sure at first, but think I enjoyed it". I did see her white head bobbing with laughter thoughout, except during the rawest of the poosy jokes and the "You're Gonna Die Soon" number at the nursing home. I could have done without that myself. They is something to entertain and offend everybody here, even white people. It inspired a long conversation afterward, which I think is a great reason to spend 9 bucks. There's a lot of talk about political correctness, but this forces us to ask where exactly to draw the line.
What I do find worrisome about this genre is exposing stereotypes to those heretofore oblivious to them. As a girl, our Orthodox neighbors and their kids were my second family; did I need to suddenly know that they "loved money"? Because that has SO not been my experience.
The I wonder what it would be like to see this in the privacy of one's home, where one won't have to predict the social ramifications of laughing at certain jokes. Though at our screening, Jesus Is Magic was preceded by a very compelling trailer for Protocols of Zion, a great appetizer.