Sarah Silverman Talks About Her Britney Spears Jokes
It’s easy to forget, but Britney Spears wasn’t the only person who struggled at the MTV Video Music Awards. Sarah Silverman also bombed pretty spectacularly.
There was actually a time I thought Silverman was pretty funny (her turn in The Aristocrats stole the entire movie), but she’s really a one trick pony. Once you get past the cute smiling girl saying incredibly depraved things there’s not a whole lot else going on.
One of the rumors that came out of the VMA’s concerned Britney’s temporary refusal to go on stage when she realized that Silverman planned on talking about her kids. Silverman didn’t see what the big deal was:
“The joke that everyone was upset about - me calling the kids `adorable mistakes’ - was the most innocuous joke,” the 36-year-old comedian tells Us Weekly magazine in the issue that comes out Friday. “It never occurred to me that would be deemed hurtful or over the line.”
Says Silverman: “I don’t want to get into feuds with girls half my age. I’m in it to be funny and not for the drama. It’s embarrassing.”
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“They are the most adorable mistakes you will ever see,” Silverman said of Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1.Silverman also joked that Spears, at 25, had already accomplished in her life everything she ever will.
Looking pretty good there for being twice Britney’s age. What’s that make her, 50? It’s cute what she’s trying to do there, with the insinuation that her maturity level is above it all.
Honestly, at this point I think we’d all be better off just forgetting the 2007 VMA’s ever happened. What a trainwreck that was.
When will this dumb bitch shut up? Her jokes weren’t funny, and she is still trying to get on the publicity train with it?
She was SO out of line and cruel. Go away, you are not funny.
This girl needs to go away. She is not funny. Her jokes consist of really low cheap shots to the most vulnerable spots of women at the most vulnerable times. They don’t make me laugh, they make me wince and feel sorry for their targets.
I still remember her ill-timed spiteful excuse for ‘jokes’ about Paris going to jail when she was just about to surrender her freedom and do her time. Who is she to humiliate her/someone/anyone publicly, on television about their sex life and going to jail, all to hope to raise her mealy mouse-faced self in the public eye?
She has a mean spirit and I find her untalented and un-funny. Her jokes badly mask a lot of frustrated envy. That’s not someone who should be put in a spotlight at another awards show. Her jokes about Britney, having accomplished ‘all she ever would in her life by 25′ and mocking her about her children is like calling someone to commit suicide.
She may want to pretend to be in denial about the viciousness of her pathetic excuse for comedy, her projections and manipulations; but the public and her targets aren’t fooled one bit. No more of her please.
I thought her jokes were hysterical!
Helena you said it so well.