Sarah Silverman, heartthrob of all right-thinking atheist males (including Dan Dennett and Sam Harris, who follow her on Twi**er) hosted Saturday Night Live last night. Though that’s well past my bedtime, I wasn’t going to miss the clips of her intro and sketches, which I dug up on Hulu. The sketches (including one of a Joan Rivers roast in Heaven) were okay, but the opening monologue was best. Of course you have to find her brand of humor appealing to like this kind of stuff, but I’m in the club.
You’ll have to watch a short ad first.
Also, there’s some real biology at the end!
http://www.hulu.com/watch/695297
Canadians, you will not be able to watch because the CRTC hates you. 🙂
What do you expect? It’s not like you’re real Americans, after all — you’re Canadians, with all your commie pinko superior free health care and our oil stashed away on your beaches. And you even speak French, the language of Surrendeur!
b&
Don’t forget the arctic that Russia and America both want.
And all that fresh water, which will be needed for golf courses in Phoenix and Palm Springs.
Especially needed in Vegas.
Alas, golf courses here are a minor part of the problem. It’s all the commercial agriculture, including cotton(!) and citrus(!!) and roses(!!!).
b&
No, I think S. America has those crops pretty well covered. The water for Vegas is to flush toilets, and stuff.
And Amuricuh ought to git hits share of hit, cuz of “Amuricuhn Exceptionalism,”eh?
(The U.S. sends U.S. Navy ships through the Taiwan Straits, and expects China to accept it with no whaahs. [I was in the navy and made such a transit; we sailed through fog and blew the fog horn every two minute for approx. 24 hrs.] Let the Chinese navy sail through the Florida Straits and see what Congressional flatulence ensues, eh?)
Not the Arctic…the Arctic oil…and the shipping lanes to get said oil to the refineries….
b&
Yes right now US ships require a Canadian ice breaker escort – because of the ice (but how long is that going to last?)
Much less longer the more we drill. Which is why it’s every American’s patriotic duty to go out and buy the least-efficient car they can find — better make it a pair of them, just for good measure — and drive it an extra long distance every day.
You might think I jest, but that’s exactly what we’re repeatedly urged to do and actually do do. The response to the Great Recession was artificially-depressed interest rates to encourage spending and incentives to buy new cars and ignore our decrepit infrastructure…the response to the Great Depression was personal austerity coupled with the Works Project Administration that built that infrastructure in the first place….
b&
Yes that and people don’t really want to recognize that things are dire. Instead it is easier to forget about and buy more cars to comfort ourselves.
Too true….
b&
We’re so close to being Americans that apparently in other countries, no-one can tell us apart. Thus the little flags on travellers’ backpacks, including clever Americans who want to be mistaken as Canadians. :p
And you even speak French, the language of Surrendeur!
Oh mon dieu! You lose one war to the Germans, and suddenly everyone forgets your millennium of mostly successful military campaigns…
French Canadians were criticized for not joining WWI but they were smart about that. Canada only joined because England told us to & the French didn’t feel they had to listen to England. Smart.
Oh and I should clarify – “resisting joining” not “not joining”.
In fact, you can’t watch it anywhere except the USA, because America is exceptional, and they don’t want the rest of us to know they have atheists, especially ones with a sense of humour.
And we spell humour properly in the rest of the world too.
Yeah, I saw the headline ‘Sarah’ and knew who it was and was looking forward to seeing it too. Waah! Maybe someone will post it on Youtube…
I missed this so thanks for posting. I’ve had a crush on Sarah going on two decades now!
I think of her more as perfectly smart and sexy…….
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I can prove that Evolution produces perfect things…….
Here in South Africa too we’re not allowed to view this video too. Can’t think of why.
I’ve read it’s something about advertising. I always just blame the CRTC in Canada (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) because they are evil and always wanting to control things. They are in a big fight with Netflix right now.
I admire Silverman, but she didn’t waste any writing on this, did she?
I loved the monologue. It’s a shame what’s happened to Weekend Update. They need some new hosts.
I fully agree on W.U., but there was one great line, in the list of things that black people can’t say (besides “tootaloo”):
“Thank you, officer, for your help.”