| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
It's not very often that a TV show bursting with imagination, audacity, rude charm and a relentlessly funny worldview gets on the air, much less appears fully formed. But Sarah Silverman... has delivered an offbeat gem. |
| 91 |
Entertainment Weekly Daniel Fierman
Where her movie overstayed its welcome, the quick-shot format of TV works beautifully. The result is haphazard, amoral, ridiculous, wildly offensive...and, you know, totally hilarious. |
| 88 |
People Weekly Jennifer Wulff
This show is so wrong. And I loved every minute of it. [5 Feb 2007, p.37] |
| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
If the series doesn't peter out after its first two great episodes, Comedy Central may at last have on its hands a live-action comedy as funny as "Chappelle's Show." |
| 80 |
The New Yorker Tad Friend
The meanest sitcom in years—and one of the funniest. |
| 80 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
The Sarah Silverman Program is a welcome outlet for Silverman’s brand of outlandishness, blessedly stingy with its desire to breach mores, and much more concerned with decorating its late-night comedy turf so that it can welcome any kind of unexpected laugh: shock, parody, irony, insult humor or absurdity. |
| 80 |
Time James Poniewozik
The pilot... iis actually the least funny of the three episodes I saw; in the other two, "Sarah" and the other characters are much better developed and the stories hang together better. Still, it's an acquired tastelessness. |
| 80 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
You'll love "The Sarah Silverman Program," but only if, like me, you have a healthy appetite for sick comedy. |
| 75 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
The show is definitely strange - and sometimes very funny. But it's so odd that it makes the "Seinfeld" format look conventionally linear. |
| 75 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
"The Sarah Silverman Program" is not for everyone. But if you've chuckled along to the rascals on "South Park" -- or if you thought "Borat" was one hilarious movie -- then chances are you'll get some perverse jollies with Sarah Silverman's latest venture. |
| 70 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
All series need time to discover their strengths and weaknesses, and this is no exception. However, this show starts with a foundation of solid character comedy, which bodes well for the future. |
| 70 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
The episodes are not as layered or intricately constructed as Mr. David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” but the humor is fueled by a similar jolt of the politically incorrect. |
| 70 |
Variety Brian Lowry
In its energy and penchant for the absurd, [it] resembles a latter-day version of "Pee-wee's Playhouse" pitched to the college-frat set. |
| 60 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
In the way of so many television series inspired by comedians, "The Sarah Silverman Program" fails to directly translate the insanity of Silverman's stand-up. |
| 60 |
Washington Post Lavanya Ramanathan
The show is just silly enough -- and Silverman is just appealing enough, for once -- to cultivate at least a cult audience. |
| 50 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
I like her a lot, but the shaggy-dog nature of the storytelling... made the comedy miss about as often as it hit for me. |
| 50 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
As someone who’s on the fence about Silverman — I get what she’s doing, but I’m not sure it’s worth the adoration it often receives — I found myself chuckling more when I went through my notes on the first two shows than when I was watching them. |
| 30 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
Silverman reminds us how quickly the novelty can wear off while watching a pixie with a potty mouth. |
| 30 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
"The Sarah Silverman Program" is full of scenes that sound funny on paper... but in execution pass by without eliciting even a small chuckle. |
| 30 |
Salon Heather Havrilesky
"The Sarah Silverman Program" has all of the charms of a joke with an audible fart as the punch line. |
| 30 |
Slate Troy Patterson
The Sarah Silverman Program isn't about anything but its own supposed daring and the hyperbolic smugness of its star. |
| 25 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
The word "juvenile" doesn't begin to describe "The Sarah Silverman Show." It completely describes it. |
