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For all who missed the Sarah Silverman appearance at Pick-Staiger on Sunday evening, you missed a great show. Don’t feel bad though- you can watch an episode of The Sarah Silverman Program and laugh at the same jokes, for free.
Despite the fact that many people had seen most of her act, she kept the audience laughing the entire time.
Silverman opened her act by talking about how her latest drug, Kabbalah, isn’t a fad, but has been around a long time.
“It’s not like regular Judaism. It has none of the big nose-ness of Jewishness. Kabbalah comes from inside Us… Weekly magazine,” Silverman said.
Jokes about Judaism made up a large chunk of the performance. Silverman, whom the Hillel Center invited to Northwestern, also touched on some of the political issues Jews face today.
“I love how Palestinians and Jews can hate each other…. It’s like sweet potatoes and yams. Who can tell the difference? It’s adorable,” Silverman said.
Silverman also observed that that everyone is more similar than people think, such as old Jewish ladies and young black men.
“They both love wearing tracksuits. They both like their sneakers clean. Car of choice? Cadillac. All their friends are dying. They’re both crazy about their grand kids,” Silverman said. “It’s always curious to me when Jewish people drive German cars. Jewish people driving German cars is the opposite of Fubu.”
Silverman then played a song about this interesting oddity which has also been featured on her show.
Tom Uhlemann, a regular viewer of The Sarah Silverman Program said he enjoyed the joke about Jews driving German cars the most. He said he and his wife heard about Silverman’s appearance at Northwestern from their son, an NU senior.
Silverman’s deceased grandmother also played a big role in the comedian’s show. Her “Nana” died at 97 years old, which Silverman said obviously showed foul play.
“I think she was raped. I had her body exhumed, which means ‘dug up’ for all the freshman,” Silverman said.
She also plans to have the body forensically tested- something her parents don’t agree with.
“I’m like, ‘Please God, let me find semen in my grandma’s vagina,’” Silverman said.
In honor of her grandmother, Silverman played a song she wrote when she was at her grandmother’s New Hampshire retirement. Silverman also played this song on “The Sarah Silverman Program.”
Doug Benson from VH1’s “Best Week Ever” and “The Marijuana-Logues” took the stage before Silverman. Benson catered to the college crowd with references to Fergie, “SexyBack” and Kanye West throughout his act.
However, the majority of Benson’s act focused on pot and his new show, “The Marijuana-Logues,” which is his take on “The Vagina Monologues.”
“I like to go to movies when I’m high,” said Benson, “Especially foreign films, ‘cuz I love to talk out loud.”
Benson also went on a tirade about McDonald’s McGriddles. “McGriddles are fan-fuckin’-tas-fuckin’-tic,” Benson said. “McDonald’s is mean to stoners with their McGriddles though. You have to get your ass to McDonald’s before 10:30 a.m. I’m the fuckin’ Rosa Parks of stoners. I walk in and demand a McGriddle at 3:30 p.m.”
Silverman did an excellent job interacting with the audience. She joked with the three photographers on the floor in front of the stage and teased a student returning to his seat after using the restroom asking him if he “wiped until there was nothing there?”
When asked “why Jimmy Kimmel?” by a member of the audience, Silverman had this reply about her boyfriend: “He has dimples, he’s fucking so funny, he tickles my back, he’s so funny.”
“But doesn’t he have back hair?” asked the audience member. “That’s true,” Silverman said, “but unfortunately so do I.”
Silverman also performed another song from The Sarah Silverman Program that described the things she wished for in life.
Both comedians appealed to the collegiate audience, even if the material wasn’t always fresh.
“I liked the first guy a whole lot,” Weinberg senior Julie Purcell said. “He was much funnier than I expected him to be. I liked Sarah Silverman too, but I saw a lot of her stuff already.”