$2 A Minute

Apparently Sarah Silverman doesn't feel bad about taking money from people and not doing anything in return. Much like a psychic hotline or a phone sex operator, Sarah appears to charge by the minute. In a show in London this past weekend, Sarah had a concert. The ticket prices were all about $100. How long did Sarah perform? 40 minutes. That's it. That includes an encore because she didn't have one. There was no opening performer. That is the most ridiculous thing ever. Plus, she didn't feel bad about it and didn't understand why the audience was taunting her and booing her.

Eventually the promoters forced to go back on stage and do a Q&A in order to keep the crowd from demanding their money back. Since the show had almost 4,000 people, neither Sarah nor the promoter wanted that. Sarah performed no new material in the show at all and she admitted to the crowd she had none. Ummm, you would think that she would always be working on new stuff. Any stand up that has worked as long as she has and writes their own stuff would be willing to talk about almost anything for as long as you let them up there. It might not all be the best but there are things they probably have worked on for years they could talk about. To the audience it seemed as if Sarah only cared about the $300,000 she got for the 40 minutes, and when the audience would not stop jeering them, told them to go home and she walked off the stage.

I'm guessing the rest of her UK tour will even be less pleasant.