SummaryThe Sarah Silverman Program is a musical/comedy that journeys into a world where daily life is anything but routine. Silverman plays a character named Sarah Silverman and is joined by her real-life sister Laura Silverman who plays the character of Laura. Rounding out the cast of characters are the geeky gay neighbors Steve (Steve Agee) and Bria... Read More
The Sarah Silverman Program
Season 1 Premiere:
Feb 1, 2007
Metascore
Generally Favorable
64
User score
Mixed or Average
5.9
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
64
59% Positive
26 Reviews
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18% Mixed
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100
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.
80
You'll love "The Sarah Silverman Program," but only if, like me, you have a healthy appetite for sick comedy.
80
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.
70
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.
60
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.
30
"The Sarah Silverman Program" has all of the charms of a joke with an audible fart as the punch line.
25
The word "juvenile" doesn't begin to describe "The Sarah Silverman Show." It completely describes it.
User score
Mixed or Average
5.9
71% Positive
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6% Mixed
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24% Negative
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4 Ratings
Jul 20, 2020
10
The Sarah Silverman Program perfectly balances satire and absurdity. While doing so it pulls off the balancing act of poking fun at contentious issues and not coming off as offensive. The protagonist is so zaney and absurd that the issues being made fun become trivialized and the audience becomes more amused at the protagonist’s antics. It pulls off the difficult act of subversively poking fun at controversy.
