has anyone else seen this movie?...I watched it last night expecting to be crying with tears of laughter..but only found it sometimes hilarious....

A man walks into an agents office, and says I have the most incredible act. The agent asks, "what happens in your act...?" The man explains...

i loved it

After I got past the gross-out factor, I enjoyed myself. There were a few bits that were too much for me, but overall I had many good laughs.

i loved it even if some of literlally made me worry i was going to sick up in the theatre.

the sarah silverman one is my fave, cause she does the joke and then one ups it by taking it to an even more disturbing level.

cborgman said:

I LOVE sarah silverman. I would totally turn jewish for her.

cborgman said:

LOVE her!

Sarah's wonderful. Her movie "Jesus is Magic" is one of the most creative standup comedy films ever made. Here's a review I wrote about it...

Please note that this is the unedited version. The published version erased the one or two redundancies.

Silverman the savior
‘Jesus is Magic’ is truly magical

by Jason Webber

(FOUR STARS)
"Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic"
Unrated (no one under 18 admitted), 72 min.

America, you’ve come a long way. In the ‘60s, comedian Lenny Bruce used to get arrested for discussing taboo subjects and using potty-mouthed language and Andrew Dice Clay was once banned for life from MTV for spinning his dirty nursery rhymes.
Now consider Sarah Silverman. This gal comes along with a movie called "Jesus is Magic," and she might just be the raunchiest apple to ever be thrown in the comedic barrel. I predict that she could become a nice, polite, perfectly respectable Jewish girl… if only she would cease discussing her rectum.
"Jesus is Magic" isn’t your average stand-up comedy movie. Few movies interweave musical numbers with stand-up comedy with vignettes that come from nowhere. The film is like Silverman taking over "Pee Wee’s Playhouse" for 80 minutes — colorful, full of music, good cheer…and a few dick jokes for good measure.
Here are just a few topics that Silverman makes you laugh at: 9/11, the Holocaust, teen pregnancy, sex, Catholicism, "The Passion of the Christ," and the wonders of ejaculation. Not exactly the kind of show you take Aunt Mildred to see. This is comedy of the most dangerous kind — the kind that picks you up, shakes you, but nonetheless makes you laugh…nervously.
Silverman is a shock comic in the tradition of Sam Kinison or Andrew Dice Clay, in the sense that her material is the lewdest and crudest stuff you can encounter outside of "Hustler" magazine, but behind the bad words lies a woman with a sharp mind. Silverman isn’t out to shock you. She’s out to wake you up from your media-clogged stupor and make you realize that life is just plain nuts and insane and the only defense is to laugh your ass off. Yes, you can laugh at the fact that we live in a world that’s so deranged that events like the Holocaust and 9/11 can be allowed to happen.
"Jesus is Magic" was directed by Liam Lynch, the mad genius who created MTV’s "Sifl and Olly" and sang that lunatic hit "The United States of Whatever." The film is truly a collaborative effort between Lynch and Silverman, combining Silverman’s sick sense of humor with Lynch’s knack for surreal, nutty visuals. Silverman really should dump that chump Jimmy Kimmel and go out with Lynch. The two could make beautiful babies.
The film has a few flaws. One or two of the vignettes don’t really work and there’s a five-minute stretch in Silverman’s routine where’s there’s not a single laugh-worthy joke. But she ends the drought with a zinger about how the best age to have a baby is … we can’t print her answer. Just see the movie and prepare to die laughing. Or walk out of the theater.
[Edited 4/7/06 10:26am]

cborgman said:

George Carlin's bit about the man shitting into his wife's mouth and being able to hear it hitting the hollow of her throat nearly made me wretch. I'd never gotten really grossed out at a movie...but that did it to me.

The film is great, however!

i don't know what to think of silverman, i'm not too fond of her-havent quite put my finger on it. and her jokes just don't sit well with me. i guess she's an acquired taste.

brownsugar said:

Sarah's an acquired taste, to be sure. Her jokes are sometimes too ironic for their own good.

Case said:

i ahve been icked out, but always by visual stuff till this movie. i never thought words and description alone cold make me squeemish