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Sarah Silverman Program, The
SERIES: Comedy Central, Thursday 10:30p (30 minutes)


5.0

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Starring Sarah Silverman, Laura Silverman, Steve Agee, Brian Posehn, and Jay Johnston

Much like the scripted bits in her recent feature film "Jesus Is Magic," this six-episode Comedy Central sitcom finds the potty-mouthed comedienne playing a version of herself as she hangs out with friends and relatives.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
CREATED BY:	Dan Harmon Rob Schrab Sarah Silverman
FIRST AIR DATE:	February 1, 2007

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

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.

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.

People Weekly Jennifer Wulff

This show is so wrong. And I loved every minute of it. [5 Feb 2007, p.37]

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."

The New Yorker Tad Friend

The meanest sitcom in years—and one of the funniest.

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.

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.

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

You'll love "The Sarah Silverman Program," but only if, like me, you have a healthy appetite for sick comedy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

TV Guide Matt Roush

Silverman reminds us how quickly the novelty can wear off while watching a pixie with a potty mouth.

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.

Salon Heather Havrilesky

"The Sarah Silverman Program" has all of the charms of a joke with an audible fart as the punch line.

Slate Troy Patterson

The Sarah Silverman Program isn't about anything but its own supposed daring and the hyperbolic smugness of its star.

New York Daily News David Hinckley

The word "juvenile" doesn't begin to describe "The Sarah Silverman Show." It completely describes it.

The average user rating for this tv show is 5.0 (out of 10) based on 144 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jorge L gave it a0:
I deserve a show on comedy central more than she does, I'm not even funny one bit.

Andrew G gave it a0:
Nothing can be said except, it blows, never should have been aired.

Steve R gave it a0:
Fart jokes are funnier.

George L. gave it a0:
WOW, even my show beats this one, i would even give more credit to Dave Chappelle with the constant white people suck jokes.

Stephan G gave it a0:
Sarah Silverman would be considered a ditz to a ditz, she can't come up with anything comical so she has to rely on poor shock humor that doesn't even work for her, i agree with what a lot of people said about the best part of the show being the gay couple, and i don't even like gay people at all.

Olivia P gave it a0:
Horribly juvenile and unwatchable despite the brilliant Posehn. Silverman is the kind of comedian (which there are a lot) that thinks just because she's half-jewish that makes every self-referential joke hilarious. It doesn't. And neither does falling back on toilet humor.

Jay B. gave it a0:
Wow, cancel her.

Sarah Silverman Program, The SERIES: Comedy Central, Thursday 10:30p (30 minutes)

Sarah Silverman Program, The
SERIES: Comedy Central, Thursday 10:30p (30 minutes)