Sarah Silverman: A Speck of Dust

Silverman has matured, and while there are still elements of her older comedy, she has walked away from her older persona.

Good subversive storytelling. Solid button pushing.

A reliably likable comedian turning in a mixed bag of a special. At her strongest, Silverman appears able to generate loud laughter and make some good points by alternating between raunchiness, introspection and acute yet only occasionally insightful sociopolitical comment. But even then, most of the time she treads familiar ground both with her topics of choice and her approach of them. Additionally the meta bits and her preference for recounting true stories are integrated far from seamlessly.

https://movies.supertran.net/2018/06/sarah-silverman-speck-of-dust-2017.html

Watched is x2.

Slightly more tame than her older style but still a solid comedy piece.

A few jokes really resonated, and her trademark gross out, say anything, disgusting schtick was still awesome and prominent. She seems to have negatively changed her delivery for this special. Not her best work, but still moderately entertaining. She needs to work on better material, this seemed a bit too improvised and constipated.

i haven't seen her in a while but she seems to have matured for good or ill. she's less contrived and in-character now, more patient and conversational. seems she's traded in some of what made her so distinctive/polarising in favour of being more assured and authentic, which is a pretty natural progression to make. either way she plays the crowd quite expertly here and casts a spell, even if the material's fairly haphazard & minor. i'm more excited about her upcoming norm macdonald live ep now.

Her style has evolved and relies less on the feigned naivete. Since that style that she pioneered has been copied so much, it's nice to see her move past it. She's in good form here and provides some real laughs.