So I'm pretty sure none of you wasted your time watching the VMA's the other night, but you probably heard about Britney's horrific "performance". (No, I didn't see it either, don't want to, but definitely heard about it.)
What you may not have heard about is Sarah Silverman's opening monologue, which followed right after Britney. Everyone's saying she bombed, but I have to admit, I thought it was dang funny. Maybe because the place was just full of self-important idiots, and it seems like Sarah felt so too.
Anyway, warning, the following could very easily offend: Sarah's monologue
What you may not have heard about is Sarah Silverman's opening monologue, which followed right after Britney. Everyone's saying she bombed, but I have to admit, I thought it was dang funny. Maybe because the place was just full of self-important idiots, and it seems like Sarah felt so too.
Anyway, warning, the following could very easily offend: Sarah's monologue
posted by Matt | 6:39 PM
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I have input:
1. I watched it live. (Court made me.)
2. The performance did suck.
3. I did actually find the SS monologue to be offensive. Once she referred to children as mistakes--she totally and utterly lost me. I physically changed the channel. I honestly cannot fathom why someone would say something like that about (or in this case) to a (the) child.
Yeah, I've seen/heard that from a number of people, that the "mistakes" bit was over the line. And I can see how that might be something that might change in me once I have kids of my own. But I don't buy the whole "the kids will grow up and hear those remarks and have their feelings hurt" thing. No, they'll most likely just be pissed at Sarah and defend their mother.
I think there's something that appeals to me about someone who will just go ahead and say the most inappropriate things because they're inappropriate. Maybe I'm (we're) reacting to our overly-sensitive culture. I dunno, that's my own issue I guess.
I can be thankful, though, that my wife doesn't make me watch crappy TV. I feel for ya, man.
Yeah--the whole kid thing. I'm not sure I'm buyin' it. Kid's don't filter for validity of content; the garbage that comes in becomes their reality and frame of reference from that point forward. This type of foundational understanding is only really challenged in one's twenties--if ever. So maybe this one particular comment won't scar them for life--but why even screw around with that culture of emotional abuse? I'm not even going to play that game.
This may or may not be an issue of over-sensitivity. If she wanted to mock Spears for trashing her career--have at it. Adults make choices and are responsible for the consequences; just leave kids out of it.
Yeah--I had to watch Star Trek while in French House. I put up w/ Buffy for a number of years early on in my marriage. Fortunately, it's coming to an end. We're watching less and less TV, because the content is simply not there.
For context (though I'm not saying it excuses it) the mistakes comment was a reference to what Britney has said about the children, multiple times, on the record. So, it wasn't Silverman editorializing, it was (I'm guessing) meant to, with the rest of the monologue, poke fun at the public trainwreck that Britney has become.
Like I said, it doesn't excuse it, but it never hurts to know the backstory.
Dang. That's scary.
And sad.
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