#52 Sarah Silverman
February 4, 2008 by clander
White people love to laugh, so it’s no surprise that some of the funniest people in the world are white! But do not believe that white people find all types of humor funny. BET Comicview for example is not considered funny, and white people generally get little to no enjoyment out of the program.
The easiest way to find out if a comedian is approved by white people is to see if they get mentioned on music blogs or have ever given an interview where they talk about how much they love The Magnetic Fields, Of Montreal, or The Shins. But this does not guarantee white acceptance.
If the topic of comedy comes up, the best thing to do is talk about how much you love Sarah Silverman. White people can’t get enough of her!
Her whole shtick is about saying really offensive things! But it’s ok because she’s pretty and has a small voice so it all sounds so cute! Get it? It’s not offensive, because when she says racist or sexist things she knows they are offensive. So it’s ok.
Much as white women will say that John Stewart is their perfect man, it is fully acceptable and encouraged for white men to say that Sarah Silverman is their perfect woman.
Sarah Silverman is also considered an “alternative comic” which essentially means she is universally loved by white people, but not enough so that she can be a movie star. 
Other acceptable ‘alternative’ comedians: David Cross, and the Comedians of Comedy (Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, and Zach Galifinakis).
Also acceptable: Any comedian who shares your ethnicity.
WARNING: under no circumstances should you EVER list Dane Cook as your favorite comedian. The wrong kind of white people like him. And mentioning him will cause white people to lose all respect for you.
Don’t forget Mitch Hepburn. He was a drug addict and died young, so of course he is idolized by white people as a legend.
Also, Dave Chappelle must be put in this list. Every white person owns his two seasons on DVD, or at least rented them through Netflix, or perhaps caught them on a Podcast. Dave also, by proxy, counts as a black friend.
I assume you meant Mitch Hedberg?
He had his moments, but he was no Sam Kinison or Bill Hicks..
Dare I even mention 70s Richard Pryor?
Sam Kinison is HORRIBLE… Greg Giraldo and Patrice Oneal!!!!
http://www.tucc.org
I hate Sarah Silverman. I also hate tucc.
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No, Mitch WAS the moment.
All other comedy falls short.
Although I have to give Brian Regan and Eddie Izzard close seconds
Mitch Hedberg was a comical genius. That is not something I can say for Sarah Silverman. She is atrocious.
I pooped my pants
it’s mitch hedberg
Sarah Silverman sucks…for the life in me I can’t understand why/how white people think she is so funny. She is like a 40-year-old loser who is not cute and NOT funny…her nasal monotone voice really irritates me too. My EX–(white male) thought she was so funny…I was and still am confused. Why do white people think she is funny?? Really……
im white AND jewish (as is sarah silverman) and i dispise her. as do most white people i know.
I can’t stand Dane Cook. Props.
Goat,
That’s Mitch Hedberg, not Hepburn. I think Mitch Hepburn was one of Katherine’s unfunny children (that she beat).
Ha Ha, you missed the joke. Mitch Hepburn was a 60’s era Canadian politician. Definitely unfunny!
Honestly, this is the best blog i have ever read. I wil spend the next few lunch breaks overanalyzing comedians in my Prius.
Please tells us more about who the “wrong kind of white people” are that like Dane Cook. Not defending Cook, just curious about that line of thought. oops did I over anal-yze.
Huh huh, anal. White people love ass jokes too.
For the record, Sarah Silvermen makes me want to throw up. And for the record, she ain’t white.
Sarah Silverman is the worst comic (if you can call her that and not denigrate the whole genre) I have come across in recent times. She is worse than that Seinfeld guy with the fork when it comes to comedy.
sarah silverman is a jew. obviously a spic wrote this post. get your races right!
you are a racist asshole and deserve a seat next to sarah silverman and patton oswald in hell. you are also very very dumb. you don’t have to be hispanic to figure out that this blog is entitled “stuff white people like” and not “white people that white people like”.
“the wrong-type of white people” are any that enjoy Dane Cook’s terrible, stolen material.
He’s the Limp Bizkit of comedy.
You do, however, get extra white people scene points for referencing the original comics Cook has stolen from.
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I AM NOT WHITE AND I LOVE SARAH AND I HATE DANE COOK IT’S LIKE HE DIDN’T TAKE HIS MUSCLES RELAXERS OR SOMETHING. ALSO HE YELLS ALL HIS SO CALLED JOKES FOR NO REASON. IT’S LIKE IDIOT YOU ALREADY HAVE A MICROPHONE WHY ARE YOU YELLING. LEWIS BLACK AND KATT WILLIAMS ARE THE BEST. ALSO THAT GUY WITH THE PUPPETS WHEN HE BRINGS OUT THE DEAD SUICIDE BOMBER PUPPET. THAT WAS JUST TO FUNNY
caps lock is cruise control for cool.
that’s the funniest thing ive read in at least two days
Katt Williams and Jeff Dunham are, in fact, not funny. Especially Jeff Dunham. Every couple of months, Comedy Central decides to pick a different and unfunny comedy fad to play the shit out of (e.g. Blue Collar Comedy, Jeff Dunham/Ventriloquism, MADtv, any comedians from the British Isles and/or Australia/New Zealand, Dane Cook, etc).
Also, BIGNAT, you’re typing the way Dane Cook talks.
Also, most white people (I can’t speak for others) don’t think female comics are funny (whatever, it’s true)… so Sarah Silverman gets extra credit for being a woman while being funny.
His name is Jeff Dunham. And he is a ventriloquistan, still a hiliarious man. And he talks about buying a prius and his wife making fun of him in a Hummer H1 which i think is awesome!
ventriloquistan.
haha.
that’s probably a word.
damn straight
I’m white and I HATE Sarah Silverman (and would take Monique over her ass ANYDAY), so there.
There’s another blog out there somewhere in a parallel universe where the white people who like Dane Cook are analyzed…and it is too boring to read.
Also: Why do white people like country music that was made fifty years ago, but hate country music being made now?
That’s easy, because country music made 50 years ago is “authentic” and “vintage.” Country music being made today sounds too much like pop music being made today.
“Today’s Country” is for people too embarrassed to admit liking ABBA.
That’s a great question Brody. It also brings into play exactly what ‘white people’ we’re discussing here. They’re certainly not the entire white population because country music is huge in much of the South and Midwest. I guess it’s yuppies primarily.
Way more white Americans like Dane Cook, or even Larry the Cable Guy, than like Sarah Silverman and Of Montreal (You’ll be hard pressed to find any whites outside of certain specific cultural scenes that have ever even heard of Of Montreal!!)
So what you are really talking about on this blog is “stuff a small minority of well-educated urban, hipster whites like”, and not the grand majority of white Americans.
About country music, it’s actually becoming quite hip to listen to bluegrass. See Nickel Creek.
Since I’m ranting, I don’t talk to girls who like Incubus. It’s spared me a lot of trouble.
@rain and
The type of people who are reading this blog are prob. the people he’s targeting, and quite accurately!
Nope, sorry! I’m white and cannot STAND
–Sarah Silverman
–Larry the Cable Guy
I do like Dane Cook. And I really miss Dave Chapelle’s show.
actually, both sarah silverman and jon stewart are jews. that doesn’t mean they’re not white people or that white people do not in fact like them, it just goes to show how capacious the category is.
in silverman’s case, this means that she gets a pass to say “offensive” things. as her sketches often remind us (stewart’s too), she is herself a member of a persecuted minority class and so putatively beyond reproach. the real question is, why do non-jewish whites so adore jewish comedians?
Probably because Jewish comedians are funnier than non-Jewish comedians (Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor notwithstanding).
From National Lampoon, Ca. 1973
Q: Are Jews white people?
A: Technically, yes, but…………
The ONLY funny female comedian is Wanda Sykes. (Pssst! She’s not white!)
I’m white and therefore have never seen BET Comicview and did not know that it existed. I am going to go to someones house and watch it though as soon as I can (I don’t have a TV), so I can talk to people about how much I like it.
Love the site!
PS. Dane Cook should not ever be doing anything except being a cook.
In the few short bursts of BET I’ve ever seen, it looked an awful lot like the minstrelsy steppin-fetchit crap they put on the UPN or WB or whatever it is now..
How is UPN like the universe was 10 billion years ago?
All black and no stars.
Um have you heard of a show called Gossip Girl? Whitest show ever.
No stars? What about Tyra Banks? Kristen Bell (from Veronica Mars)
Dave Chappelle. It’s so true. And Chris Rock. We love both of them.
I don’t actually like Sarah Silverman that much. Sometimes I do, sometimes I can’t stand her. A better one might be, well, depending on the white people: Janeane Garofalo.
But JON Stewart is pretty awesome, I wouldn’t kick him out of bed.
Is liking pants-crapping race-specific? I’m pretty white (and fat) and I like filling my pants (well, adult diapers). I was just wondering if loading diapers in public is enjoyed by brownies or other non-honkies.
I bet Dane Cook doesn’t shit his pants much. Mo’nique, however? Va-va-va-VOOM!!
“#13mBrody
Also: Why do white people like country music that was made fifty years ago, but hate country music being made now?”
Because country music from back then was original. It wasn’t watered down pop-ified country music we hear now. I don’t even like country music, and I’m not white (though I do like me some Okkervil River), but even I can hear that.
Both Stewart and Silverman are Jewish, do white people like Jewish people, perhaps?
Some people like things like Dane Cook and NASCAR too much so white people call them White Trash (but they’re still White).
Also, you took Jewish people’s white cards away? White people, I thought you were so progressive… I guessed had that me and mines were only like 800 years away!
It’s well known that white people love to disagree with blog posts. They feel the need to comment on how they like the exact OPPOSITE of what a blog post says. For instance:
“Nope, sorry! I’m white and cannot STAND
–Sarah Silverman
–Larry the Cable Guy”
And
“I’m white and I HATE Sarah Silverman (and would take *Monique over her ass ANYDAY), so there.”
*Note: 40 white points awarded to MC (our computer estimates that you are a young, white female) for choosing a black comedian over a white comedian. Given the opportunity, White people love to reference how fond they are of people of different races. It’s shows they’re not racist.
It should also be noted that White people spend about 23 hours a day thinking of ways to prove how they’re not racist.
Sincerely,
The Duke of White People.
again a failure. i don’t think there is a single person, white, black, asian, or anything else, who likes sarah silverman’s brand of comedy. us crackers sure did love seinfeld though, and she appeared in there as kramer’s girlfriend, granting her a lifelong pass to our hearts.
White people like Sarah Silverman, she likes chinks. What’s the problem again?
No wonder white people feel so warm & fuzzy around me. I LOVE the Comedians of Comedy, especially Patton Oswalt.
I HATE Sarah “Screwed My Way to the Top” Silverman. She’s not as pretty as she thinks she is, which makes her “jokes” not as funny as the white people think they are. You’re fucking Matt Damon? Matt Damon wouldn’t fuck Sarah Silverman with Jimmy Kimmel’s penis. She’s cute for a Jewish girl…Yea, I said it.
white people, in my experience, love ethnic comedians a lot…but maybe just canadians. canadian white people will do anything to avoid admitting that they are white.
No, according to racial stereotypes, anyone who can’t claim to be hispanic (A white or non-white person from a non-white spanish/portugese speaking country) Black, Asian or Native American (also Asian, technically) is white. So a Jew is only not white if you’re a member of the KKK. Otherwise they’re considered white unless you’re a non-Jew attending Shul. In which case you become uncomfortably aware that Jews aren’t really white at all. But you ignore it because they vote mostly Democrat. Also if you’re a wealthy American who does not freely philander and vote Democrat or actively give money to African tyrants you’re white. Even if you’re technically from Africa or Asia. If you’re a Afrikaner you confuse the stereotypes and definitions, being that you’re somehow an entirely white person who can fluently speak an African tongue and actually has rhythm. White people are not to be reminded that rhythm is something you learn and not simply a gift to make poorer people’s lives better.
I call White-Irony on you!
Silverman is a hot Jewess. She has a dirty mouth, which increases her hotness. However, she is a celebrity and makes it seem like she’s promiscuous so I would never touch her with a ten foot pole. Also, she’s a comedian and performer, so whatever she’s really like is unknown, and if it’s anything like how she pretends to be I’ll in prison in 6 months for murder.
Also, White People like to overanalyze why things are funny, and not just for the fun of it but for serious reasons. Like to categorize types of humor and justify their own preferences. White people like dirty, nasty humor because they are human, but they will lie about it unless being honest about it would make them seem hip. White people forget that people have been making jokes since Ancient Egypt and before, (mostly because they think all civilizations before the 1960’s were backwards, ignorant and evil) and so they think that their newly created categories and definitions mean something.
Actually, RiverC, Jews are anything BUT white (despite the claims of too many American ones to the contrary). We’re a semitic race with more in common with Arabs than WASPs.
White people LOVE Jewish comedians because we (Jews) make antisemitic jokes, and many of us are “white enough” to make real white people feel at ease laughing at our jokes.
ANYWAY, Sarah Silverman is in no way a counterpart to Jon Stewart. If anything, her humor is a lazy female version of Sasha Baron Cohen. Nice try, though.
“Also: Why do white people like country music that was made fifty years ago, but hate country music being made now?”
Ugly buildings, politicians and whores all become respectable with age.
But in pointing that out you did make me realize I own Patsy Cline CDs, but find Shania Twain annoying.
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black people do not sniff glue. do-do brain.
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pumping the oil to countries that dont spend on their people and actually end up raising the gas prices.
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i luv that stuff
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especially in brazil
@forsoothsayer - i’m canadian, and that’s totally true. on topic, i’d like to punch S.S. in the face. I was also once forwarded a dane cook youtube ﾞperformance” from a friend via email… the message attached simply stated: ﾞomg, lmao!” I haven’t spoken to her since.
I don’t know why hippies laugh at her. Her stand-up act was unbelievably funny to me.
“If there were black people in Germany there would have BEEN NO HOLOCAUST. Well, not for Jews…”
If you’re like me and haven’t internalized the hippygranola religion, don’t like it, see it as manifestly idiotic, stultifying, and even fascist, seeing her exquisitely outline a boundary we all know is there and that hippies would ensconce in fascist law if they could, and step way over it deliberately and dare anybody to call her on it is not only funny, it’s cathartic.
Her acting like an irretreivable narcissist on her show isn’t very entertaining though.
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sarah silverman sucks.
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I’m not sure Sarah Silverman thinks of herself as “white.” But it is true that white people like her.
Screw that, best comic stand up of all time. Eddie Murphy!
I’ve probably seen Eddie Murphy “RAW” at least more than a dozen times, and it makes me crack up every time.
After all, I’m white, and ‘I got some ice cream, and you don’t have none.’
I dig SS. (That’s right DIG. I said DIG. D-I-G DIG)
But I haven’t seen her enuf to know she HAD a brand of comedy.
She got her own show?
Must be on premium cable package.
Dont get that here in the double-wide.
She’s got nice eyebrows. So sue me. better yet go f**** yerselfs!
I don’t think she/he said silverman was white? it is my understanding that someone doesn’t have to be white for white people to like them? not that just because silverman is jewish doesn’t mean that she is not white…btw silverman is prob in my top 5 comedians…jim norton is right up there as well. i aint white btw…at least not completely.
I’m white and what’s whiter than liking Sarah Silverman is pointing out how it’s okay for her to say racist things. I like David Cross and hate Dane Cook because he’s an unfunny hack. Our fashion tastes don’t align, thus I’m lame.