Jesus is Magic the Movie is the very, very, very, mucho very funny (did I say artful) film of American Jewish comic Sarah Silverman's stage show (who also hosted LA's Independent Spirit Awards) but is little known to Brit audiences. Almost every line is quotable and almost every line offends something or someone. But she does it, not just to let off steam but also to make you think. Does putting the world into nice little boxes only serve to forget the big things in the world, forgetting them by the kerbside as we rev off in the big completely sorted truck only to break down half-way on the highway because we also forgot to fill the tank? Some of those little boxes are essential and some aren't. And Silverman is a great archivist of humanity as well as being gorgeous, sexy, and her face a rainbow of subtle inflexion that seems effortlessly spontaneous. She's like a female Lenny Bruce (the New York comic memorably played in a film (1974) by Dustin Hoffmann [choreographer Bob Fosse directing] who kept getting arrested for foul language the 60s/70s) only Silverman could charm the bloomers off a room of Jewish grannies without modifying her act a jot (and does in the film!) and they'd still all ask her to meet their grandson and sort him out. The DVD has a somewhat thin self-congratulatory commentary by Silverman and her director Liam Lynch but a funny Making of and her genius segment in The Aristocrats - a film about the one joke that's like a 'Bible' for comics.
Sarah Silverman explains kabbalah
Early Standup
Sarah Silverman and her racist jokes
Sarah Silverman's UK charm offensive
Silverman tomorrow night at the Hammersmith Apollo.
She also appears in the London Film Festival's Largo.
And a film that will offend as many as it gladdens the hearts of others Religulous plays tonight at the London Film Festival prior to general UK release from Momentum: a collaboration between Maher and director Larry Charles (the co-creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm and director of the Borat film).
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