Console best movie i've ever seen.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

jinxmap Appalling... in a school of wittering idiots, Sarah Silverman rules in hell, apparently. Her weak co-option of human rights should make the most noble of us shudder. SS humour includes such dissociative as MLK and farting, AIDS = lemonaids and the charming imagining of "wouldn't the Jews have been better off if there were Blacks in Nazi Germany?" Her cruelty knows no bounds, especially to the elderly, Blacks, Ethiopians, her parents, her dead grandmother, everyone wins! She likes Fiji Wadder! If you, as I, were watching this DVD expecting a cinematic début of a rising talent and found yourself bored... try this trick: Use a mental computer find-and-erase and for every instance of the words "um", "like", "gay" and "oh my God", renders the entire performance half as long... Score! Or in her own words, "My sh*t... it belongs offstage."

Michael_Elliott Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005)* (out of 4) Sarah Silverman's controversial comedy show features all sorts of jokes ranging from racist ones to jokes about the Holocaust, 9/11, AIDS and various other taboo subjects. I'm sure many would watch this thing or even just read about it and throw a fit over the subjects that are made fun of. Sure, not too many people would have the balls to make a joke about 9/11 or child rape but if you're going to do it then perhaps shouldn't you write good material? I personally wasn't offended by any of the jokes here but I must say that I found all of them to be poorly written. I think you can look at any great stand-up comedian, be it Pryor or even Lenny Bruce, and hope that they believe in what they are saying. No matter if it's tragic or comical I think it's important that they believe in what they are saying and that's clearly not the case here. If Silverman really believed in anything she's saying here then it would be shocking and funny. However, it's clear that she's just telling these jokes because she's trying to be outrageous and shocking and that to me isn't funny. I wasn't really digging her delivery style either but I think in the end this film fails because the material is just weak. The musical numbers are just as lame as are the opening and closing "acted" parts. This was my first time seeing Silverman and even though I hated this film I think she could be funny as a comedian. However, when the material is this poor and the editing so bad there's really not much you can do except come close to falling asleep.

changingshades Y'know I totally have a huge crush on Sarah Silverman. I think she's funny in small doses, and that her interviews with Conan are great. However, this movie really makes me wonder if I would care about her if she wasn't hot. While I was watching this movie I think there were maybe 7 actual jokes followed by a lot of hemming and hawing and just general bad stage presence. When she eventually got around to a joke it was pretty funny, and the audience would laugh, but then she'd pause, say "um, okay", and stall for a few minutes. And this was after every joke. This movie should have been a half hour stand up special and all the unfunny skits could have been dropped and with some good editing, it might, MIGHT, have been tight enough to mask her uncomfortableness on stage. But really, I doubt it. Of course knowing that the "boyfriend" she kept mentioning was Jimmy Kimmel just made me want to vomit in my mouth.

gcd1707 Whether one likes this movie largely depends on which camp one falls into--the "I get she's sending up all the stereotypes by using them" camp or the "she's just another stereotype comic" camp. Rest assured, she is indeed engaging in satire, but at the same time one can't help but feel that this nonetheless reinforces stereotypes as much as it deconstructs them.More to the point, she's only sporadically funny. When she hits on something, it's great, but otherwise it's a lot of her poking fun at the naive pretty girl image while innocently unleashing something wickedly taboo. It's a clever act, but it's also blatantly obvious and wears thin after not too long.Jesus is Magic is a decent film and to a large extent what one gets out of it depends on how one appraises the originality and impact of her style. Once one gets past the controversy, though, Sarah Silverman is largely hit or miss.