LAT in 90 Seconds

TMI: Sometimes a review says more about the reviewer than the show itself. Take Paul Brownfield’s lovesick riff on The Sarah Silverman Program.

“I’ve dated her comedy, by which I mean the person Silverman is in her comedy — superior and always one step ahead of me, tasting what I just said and spitting it back at me with a clever note attached, or passive-aggressive put-down, or zinger. Ah, the achy love particular to a slightly less clever white Jewish male for the Semitic goddess who is meaner and quicker, who can talk so dirty and yet be so pretty in cargo pants and a T-shirt.”

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