First up on the Sarah Silverman DVD check list is 2005's 'Jesus Is Magic' a stand up performance taping with a few other bits thrown in.
Here Silverman's stand up covers race, politics (sort of), sex, the holocaust and midgets. It's all of course filtered through a off kilter world view and wrapped in a series of gags that rise a laugh from wrong footing the audience or from making an exaggerated observation.
The is no real link between each topic as she jumps around the material but this does mean that each segment doesn't overstay it's welcome and you're quickly onto another angle.
Stand out stuff includes the observation that Jewish people shouldn't buy German cars, a discussion of the appropriate use of racist terms, a rendition of Amazing Grace and how to choose the religion of your child. Truly everything is fair game with even the events of September 11th employed in the routine (the domain name pay-off is brilliant)
Less successful are the embellishments around the stand up routine. Basically these segments are tiny bits of The Sarah Silverman Program (which is basically for these who haven't seen it like Curb You Enthusiasm based around a Jewish white girl with a a splash of surrealism) which unfortunately feel out of place when presented in such short bursts with no real indication of who anyone involved is (aside from Silverman)
The amped up song numbers work a little better as they add a little more pep to proceedings and allow for at least one good visual joke.
Now I'm sure this show won't change your mind if you don't like Silverman's sense of humour but I'd recommend it as a good place to start for those unfamiliar with her and for those already a fan it will have you chuckling away.
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