The Mtv Awards went off last weekend, and for once they didn't sink without a ripple outside of their target 12-18 demographic. This is largely thanks to Britney Spears' disastrous performance, but since I've refused to watch it and assume that you've seen it by now if you care, I'm not going to comment on it. What I do want to comment on is what Sarah Silverman said in her comedy routine after Britney's appearance. I'd heard that she made some nasty Britney jokes, but hadn't seen video or read a transcript. Thankfully, Mtv's moratorium on YouTube sharing of the event seems to have ended, and...
Well, I spoke too soon. I searched on videos half an hour ago and found a bunch, and watched (and saved) one, but now that I get around to writing this post, they're all dead links. At any rate, search for
sarah silverman britney and you'll get a ton of returns; keep clicking, people are constantly re-upping deleted files on YouTube, and the Viacom lawyers will get sick of C&Ding them eventually. I'd post the one I copied but I can't be bothered with some lawyer mailing me, and it's in .flv format and I doubt many of you have downloaded a FLV player yet. They're only of use if you regularly save movies you see on YouTube.
Sarah's routine wasn't really very good; the first couple of minutes on Britney are good, but it goes 4.5 minutes and she seems to be stalling to fill time during the last 120 seconds. It's remarkable simply because she dared to speak the jokes everyone else thinks, and she gets away with them because she's a woman, and can therefore insult other women by calling them whores without being branded a misogynist (rightly or wrongly, and I'll post about that issue later today).
Sarah's jokes have been seized on since the event by some of Britney's enablers as possible excuses for why the meal ticket's performance was so awful, but
reports are that no one heard Silverman's material in advance.
To finally cut to the chase, her best lines were:
Britney's amazing. She's 25 and she's already accomplished everything she's ever going to accomplish in her life.
Have you seen Britney's kids? They are the most adorable mistakes you will ever see. They're as cute as the hairless vagina they came out of.
The line about the kids being mistakes seems to be the controversial one, but when you think about it... why? Honestly, would you rather people thought you missed a pill or broke a rubber, or that you
chose to have kids with Kevin Federline? On purpose!
That said, I don't think the kids are 1) that cute, or 2) accidents. True, Britney appears to be about as dumb as dumb can be; can a woman who doesn't remember to put on knickers be trusted to take one pill, and only one pill, every single day? On the other hand, she fucked dozens of guys over the last 10 or 12 years, managed never to have any of their babies, then had 2 in short order once she settled into her second marriage. That seems like intent to me. Idiotic intent, but intent nonetheless.
Labels: britney spears, mtv, sarah silverman
