Sarah Silverman, Jesus is Magic

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Jesus is Magic delivers one of Sarah
Silverman’s most honed and
poisonous performances ever.
Silverman is at her absolute best with
her perfect smile and filthy wise cracks
flowing together seamlessly. She
seems at home in front of a large
audience and her delivery has become
much more subtle and deliberate, able
to make the audience erupt with just a
casual glance or smirk.

What hasn’t changed about her
however, is her uncanny ability to be
astoundingly vulgar while maintaining
a disposition of near child-like
innocence. The film itself is really
more of a musical than a stand-up
routine.

Written by Silverman and directed by
Liam Lynch (co-creator of The Sifl and

Olly Show), the plot is a wonderfully narcissistic accompaniment to Silverman’s set. The
film opens with Silverman looking longingly into a mirror and singing a fawning love
ballad to herself. She even has to stop herself from kissing her own reflection saying
softly, “No, not here.”

Silverman sings to a Jew in a German car, she sings insults to a group of elderly
people, and she even performs an a capella version of "Amazing Grace" accompanied
by her asshole and vagina. The music and plot have a lot more to do with the comedy
than most stand-up films, and Silverman pulls it off quite well. While the plot and music
are often fun, it is Silverman’s performance that hooks us.

She still loves to play the brain-dead ditz on stage, an impression which she has gotten
down to a science, though her attitude has matured somehow and she gears her jokes
to more of a contemporary crowd. She tells the audience that she was licking whipped
cream off of her boyfriend’s penis the other night and she couldn’t help thinking to
herself, “Oh my God, I’m turning into my mother.” She also says solemnly that a doctor
raped her when she was young, she then adds, “which is so bittersweet for a Jewish
Girl.” She gladly shocks us for an hour and then skips off stage like a schoolgirl.

Silverman's style has evolved, and overall she appears to understand her own persona
better as a comedian and as an artist. Perhaps she has found a muse in Jimmy
Kimmel, or perhaps she has just been waiting for the right opportunity to break out.
Regardless, Sarah Silverman is herself magic in this film, which promises to usher her
into a long tenure as a comic legend.