Video: Outrageously outrageous abortion humor outrage
posted at 7:48 pm on October 4, 2007 by Allahpundit
Via Karol, who can’t get enough of the abortion jokes. I saw someone complaining about this earlier but otherwise there hasn’t been much grousing about it in the ‘sphere today. It’s Sarah Silverman playing her namesake, an idiot whose selfishness and vapidity amount to near-sociopathic callousness. I’m sure she’s pro-choice but it’s easy to read this clip, which appears to satirize the casualness of serial aborters, the other way. What she’s actually satirizing, I think, is the perception of casualness by some on the right. Hence the grotesque cheeriness and the ostentatious kiss laid on the photo of Clinton.
Or maybe she just gets off on slaughtering sacred cows. It doesn’t have to be “about” anything, man.
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Actually, I’m pretty sure she and her boyfriend just get off on pushing people’s buttons.
And of course she’s a lib. How else could she create this crap for a living?
unamused on October 4, 2007 at 7:57 PM
well, that makes me sick
j_ehman on October 4, 2007 at 7:57 PM
Can’t beat that abortion in San Fran post.
Kini on October 4, 2007 at 7:57 PM
I am sorry I am VERY Pro life, But I laughed … I laughed
Scary…
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on October 4, 2007 at 7:57 PM
I’m in the same boat as you.
I’m about as pro-life as a person can get and I found it funny.
It wasn’t laugh out loud funny, but I was definitely amused.
It just seemed like her character being true to character. She doesn’t take anything seriously. I didn’t really see a lib or cons slant in the montage……just a commedienne that thinks everything has the potential to be funny.
JadeNYU on October 4, 2007 at 8:02 PM
Ditto!
JetBoy on October 4, 2007 at 8:02 PM
I realize you’re being facetious, AP, but since blogging is the medium of OUTRAGE, we ought to keep that outrage in proper perspective. Outrage should come from what people do, not what they say. Leave the preening, spittle-flecked outrage over words to liberals (go ask Dan Collins at PW); we conservatives should be outraged by actions.
Starving and dehydrating someone to death? Shoving a defacto amnesty bill through against the will of a supermajority of the people? Outrage.
Sleeping with God or going abortion-gaga for cheap ratings (or doing a tired leather-clad knockoff of the Last Supper, for that matter)? Eh.
a4g on October 4, 2007 at 8:15 PM
Sorry, AP. I can’t be talked into watching that thing, er, woman.
drjohn on October 4, 2007 at 8:18 PM
Hate to tell ya, but I love her. She’s got some serious balls.
SouthernDem on October 4, 2007 at 8:22 PM
I don’t doubt that.
Savage on October 4, 2007 at 8:30 PM
She’s funny. The bit is funny.
Some of your collars are too starched.
albo on October 4, 2007 at 8:30 PM
This is either very deep or very shallow. I would expand on that, but I’d miss the ‘Hippies’ documentary on the History Channel.
RedWinged Blackbird on October 4, 2007 at 8:34 PM
Some one please tell me how this woman is at all funny?
She is a nasty foul mouth tramp as far as I can see.
Great_Red_Dragon on October 4, 2007 at 8:39 PM
predictable and lame.
Alden Pyle on October 4, 2007 at 8:49 PM
I really don’t understand the Sarah Silverman phenom.
simon on October 4, 2007 at 8:54 PM
Why would the clinic have presidential portraits? Took me right out of the joke. Whole illusion–bang, gone.
Alex K on October 4, 2007 at 9:01 PM
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They’re just a shorthand way to place the events in the timeline. It’s not a documentary. I liked the stupid 1980s clothes and hairdos.
Bad Penny on October 4, 2007 at 9:07 PM
It doesn’t look very realistic to me. Do you think there are any abortion clinics in America that would have portraits of Reagan and Bush that aren’t mounted on a dart board?
HockeyTemper on October 4, 2007 at 9:07 PM
Sarah who?
OhioCoastie on October 4, 2007 at 9:12 PM
I think that’s it. Just get the reaction. The thing is, if she’s pro-choice, she’s making some women who have had abortions, who are past the denial stage and feel regret, feel pretty awful watching this. But I don’t think that occured to her, what women are feeling. Ironically.
And…since someone reading this might need it, if you or anyone you know is grieving their abortion, please go to this site:
http://www.hopeafterabortion.com.
It also has links to free and confidential help for you, anywhere you live.
inviolet on October 4, 2007 at 9:17 PM
:) Ain’t that the truth…
To pick up on what Bad Penny said, not only are they a shorthand way to mark time, they’re a cliched way to do it; it’s been done to death.
Especially the Reagan picture. In the mid-80′s I remember a whole string of movies that opened with his picture them, like a calling card: Hey man, it’s the 80′s, no more of that Jimmy Carter crap!
All the more absurd because an abortion clinic is the last place (I imagine?) you’d see one.
RD on October 4, 2007 at 9:20 PM
Er, I remember a whole string of movies that opened with his picture
them, …RD on October 4, 2007 at 9:22 PM
Hmmm, I’m pro-choice, (though I think it should be the last choice) and I didn’t think it was funny…. I’ve been saying that a lot lately, I wonder if my sense of humor is broken.
4shoes on October 4, 2007 at 9:28 PM
It’s not like either of them actually did much about abortion.
Savage on October 4, 2007 at 9:57 PM
Exactly :-)
drjohn on October 4, 2007 at 10:10 PM
It’s kinda funny, but so sick when you think about it…viewing abortions as something to think fondly of, to reminisce about. Just turns my stomach.
stonemeister on October 4, 2007 at 10:14 PM
I’ve noticed lately women comics are making more abortion jokes. You know like Carlos Mencia talks about race. Well, now women comics have to add an abortion joke to their repertoire so when VH1 does a special on them they can say “I not only did jokes but I did social commentary.” Makes the silliness they are doing seem more important. Thanks, Sarah Silverman, for you enlightening social commentary. I now I have a completely different view of abortion. You go girl! I’m like totally voting for Hillary now because I care about women issues:)
terryannonline on October 4, 2007 at 10:21 PM
Guys, the more I think about it, the more certain I am that the portraits thing makes no sense at all. Plus, despite the good job with her hair and wardrobe, she looks the same age in every scene.
Alex K on October 4, 2007 at 10:24 PM
Ah, but notice she seems to only had 3 abortions. So apparently she imagines there is a limit.
Still, because she never thought about it, what would her feeling be about 5, 6, 9 abortions.
Believe it or not there are women who have had that many.
Agrippa2k on October 4, 2007 at 10:44 PM
Did she keep the baby she had during Bush I?
km on October 4, 2007 at 10:46 PM
Maybe she used birth control during Bush I.
terryannonline on October 4, 2007 at 10:53 PM
Just curious, AP-does Sarah S. drive more traffic than posts on Fred(!) or Harry Reid? I won’t ask if she’s getting more clicks than Michelle or MKH.
Doug on October 4, 2007 at 10:53 PM
Does anyone else think she’s really hot?
Its Tommy on October 4, 2007 at 10:57 PM
I don’t know what’s so outrageous about this. She’s poking more fun at herself if anything.
Its Tommy on October 4, 2007 at 11:02 PM
If I remember correctly, her boyfriend is Jimmy Kimmel, with the late night show on ABC.
Although, he seems to be an equal opportunity offender.
batperez on October 4, 2007 at 11:09 PM
If she weren’t cute, no one would listen to anything she said.
Or at least pretend to.
What did she say?
profitsbeard on October 4, 2007 at 11:10 PM
Actually, I’m pretty much the opposite. I’m only pro-choice because I believe less women would get hurt than if it were illegal, and I believe in government allowing people to make their own choices (which include whether they want to carry a gun, be a prostitute, smoke in a bar, etc).
However, I am firmly against people having abortions, in the same way I would advise people not to start smoking. I want them to have the freedom to choose to do so, but I have the freedom, if they are someone I know, to try to convince them not to. Therefore, the portrayal of what I know to be normally a traumatizing experience is sickening. Then again, other than South Park, I haven’t seen anything worth half a crap on Comedy Central in years.
Not funny, Sarah. Get a real job. You suck at this one.
MadisonConservative on October 4, 2007 at 11:17 PM
I’m pretty sure that’s actually the opposite of what she’s trying to do.
SouthernDem on October 4, 2007 at 11:49 PM
I don’t think she’s particularly cute, at least in the sense of attractive. But I find her very very funny. She does that archly self-deprecating thing so well. But there’s no explaining what seems funny to one person. Either it works for you or it doesn’t. This piece worked for me partly because it takes abortion seriously precisely by portraying a character who views it casually, and making fun of her.
Splunge on October 4, 2007 at 11:52 PM
Actually there are lots of women being hurt legally. Getting ripped to shreds and vacuumed up. Young ones, I’ll admit.
Being pro-choice but against abortion, is like being anti-crime, but against law enforcement.
jjjen on October 5, 2007 at 12:23 AM
That’s silly. I am anti-cigarettes but I don’t want them to be illegal. I consider it to be a bit hypocritical to be against government control of weapons and health and then be for it restricting another choice people make.
MadisonConservative on October 5, 2007 at 12:41 AM
My guess is that she got some positive comments from conservatives for her first season, since it wasn’t bad at all. And all her lefty friends vilified her for being entertaining to the “enemy.” So she figured this was how she could be as offensive as she possibly could to precisely those people.
urbancenturion on October 5, 2007 at 1:59 AM
I’ve been having the same thing, 4shoes, and I don’t think my sense of humor is broken. Some things just aren’t funny and much of the comedy I see coming out these days, is just that. Not funny.
The only other thing I can think to say is this was mild compared to the few other things I’ve seen S. Silverman do. Can’t say I care for her but I suppose she’s better than Rosie. LOL, we need a scale of obnoxiousness.
yggdrasil on October 5, 2007 at 2:59 AM
I’m sorry, I dont find her particularly funny or attractive.
Was one of her abortions there after her one nighter with
God??
mrfixit on October 5, 2007 at 5:33 AM
Dead culture coming up for air. The headstone: AMERICANS LAUGHING AT CRUSHING BABY SKULLS.
saved on October 5, 2007 at 6:57 AM
I watched the whole show, and this early montage was a yawner. I’m not rabidly pro-life, but there was a scene later where she saves the day by using the fetus sucker vacuum thingy (she calls it “old friend”) to remove an arrowhead from the rectum of her gay friend.
No, that is not *my* joke—that’s what happened.
I have a very high tolerance for sick humor, but that was twinge inducing. Find a clip of that scene if you want to turbocharge the outrage-o-meter.
Cuffy Meigs on October 5, 2007 at 9:23 AM
Weird thing is, there are people who think she’s funny, and there are even people who think she’s nice looking.
Jaibones on October 5, 2007 at 9:59 AM
Hottttt!
SouthernDem on October 5, 2007 at 10:31 AM
I agree. And even if she is pro-choice very few people are OK with the idea of using abortion as birth control.
Esthier on October 5, 2007 at 10:56 AM
albo on October 4, 2007 at 8:30 PM
MNDavenotPC on October 5, 2007 at 11:29 AM
You mean Animal Planet.
Darth Executor on October 5, 2007 at 11:55 AM
Are we living on the same planet? That is precisely the point of abortion. What else is it? An audit?
Also, I watched the clip, and quite frankly, I think it will far more annoy her pro-choicer buddies. Since I can’t very well ban the procedure, I didn’t kill any babies laughing at it.
And as far as her having “balls” as it were, I’ll believe that when she does an album called Mumhammed Is
Magic.
-T
The Therapist on October 5, 2007 at 3:51 PM
She is an equal opportunity offender, generally, but the bottom line in this show was that, although her “character” is a vapid narcissist, all of the so-called normal other regulars were all depicted as sensibly pro-choice, whereas every anti-abortion character was depicted as a lunatic, without exception.
She may have a lot of balls, but at the end of the day, she’s not really going to challenge the Church of Liberalism’s most sacred sacrament.
If she were really going to be daring, she wouldn’t have pulled back from the cliff, but lefty’s need constant reassurance for their superiority, so there you go.
Kensington on October 5, 2007 at 4:18 PM
Guilty on both counts, but it wasn’t until this episode that I saw her own strain of PC assert itself, and that makes her less attractive in my eyes. I always thought she was braver than that.
Kensington on October 5, 2007 at 4:20 PM