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Sarah Silverman: ready to scissor Sheldon Adelson for a fat Obama donation (NSFW)

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The nice girl and her Schlep Labs posse have done it again for America…
 

 
After the jump: remembering The Great Schlep…

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Posted by Ron Nachmann
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07.16.2012
05:38 pm
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Tig Notaro meets Taylor Dayne, hilarity ensues

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The comedienne TIg Notaro is new to me, but she is a well-known figure on the American stand-up comedy circuit (and to viewers of The Sarah Silverman Program, where she played a cop SIlverman goes “les” for). While I may not live in the States, or even have a TV, I am very happy to have found this woman, ‘cos she’s hilarious. 

I discovered the wonders of Tig while innocently browsing Zach Galifianakis interviews on the web. Anyone who has seen the excellent Between Two Ferns knows that an interview with Galifianakis can be a brutal, painfully funny ordeal. Well, Tig is one of the only people who can match Galifianakis’ surly, steely cynicism beat-for-beat, and in this clip for Bright Young Things she actually gets the better of him at his own awkward-interview game. That is no mean feat.

Once my interest had been pricked by this clip, I had to go and find out more about this woman, and thankfully her hilarious dalliance with Galifianakis was no mere fluke. Notaro pulls off that west coast, drawling, “Whaaa?”-style delivery perfectly. It’s one of my favorite types of American comedy, and a style that tends to be over-looked in favor of the polemicism of Bill Hicks and George Carlin (not that it’s a competition, you understand). Maybe it’s got to do with all the sweet weed growing over there, but it’s something I think you guys do better than almost anyone else, if I’m honest. 

There are some excellent Tig performance clips floating around online (particularly sketches recorded at the Purple Onion) and last year Notaro released her first album of comedy material, Good One. Here’s one of the longer sketches from the album, called “Taylor Dayne”, which recounts Tig’s run-ins with the eponymous 80s songstrel/actress. The way this sketch keeps looping back to the same punchline reminds me of Stewart Lee in a way, but stripped of all that “comedy-about-comedy” pretence that can become tiresome:

Tig Notaro “Taylor Dayne”
 

 
You can buy Good One here, and find out more info on Tig at her website.

In the meantime, you can download the sketch “Can You Believe It” by putting your email address into this little widget, then clicking “Download” when it directs you to her site:
 

 

 

Posted by Niall O'Conghaile
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06.08.2012
09:44 am
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Bearded Sarah Silverman
04.30.2012
07:47 pm
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Freaking News recently held a ‘shoop contest where folks were asked to photoshop a more than average amount of hair on familiar female faces. Most of the submissions sucked, but some—like the one of Sarah Silverman pictured above—are pretty interesting.

Via Nerdcore

 

Posted by Tara McGinley
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04.30.2012
07:47 pm
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Sarah Silverman clues America in on how to make it better
10.04.2010
07:57 pm
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File under “Ya think?”: the country’s baddest-ass comedienne provides a different perspective on the horrible uptick in bullied LGBT suicides…
 

 

Posted by Ron Nachmann
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10.04.2010
07:57 pm
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Sell the Vatican, Feed the World
10.13.2009
08:58 pm
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This is one of the most enlightened solutions to the world’s problems I’ve ever heard.

(Sell the Vatican, Feed the World via Osocio)

Posted by Jason Louv
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10.13.2009
08:58 pm
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