Posted on 10/20/2008 4:24:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Fans, who had paid about £50 a ticket, slow hand clapped and shouted they wanted their money back after the star's short 40-minute set.
After the audience refused to leave, Silverman was forced to give a Q&A session as an encore after admitting she had no other material prepared.
Unimpressed fans shouted "you're over-hyped Sarah" and "I've seen longer clips on YouTube", before the star told the audience to "go home" and the left the stage.
Reviewers from comedy websites and national newspapers were also left underwhelmed by Silverman's set at the Hammersmith Apollo, which "fizzled out" by the end.
The Daily Telegraph's Dominic Cavendish described the comic as "skipping away in near-disgrace" after the "excruciatingly embarrassing" question and answer session.
Steve Bennett from comedy website Chortle complained that "minute for minute, there are sex phonelines that are cheaper than Sarah Silverman..."
Fans also fumed on internet forums about the gig, including Rob who posted on Time Out's website: "I've never been to a more sad-sack performance in my life - if you can't produce a single slice of new material, then don't put on a show in the first place," he said. "When the lights went up, I thought it was a joke, and when she was cajoled into coming back onto the stage it was almost embarrassing - utterly pathetic."
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“minute for minute, there are sex phonelines that are cheaper than Sarah Silverman...” — Steve Bennett from comedy website Chortle
What? They were expecting Lisa Lampanelli?
No sympathy from me for someone stupid enough to pay to see her.
I went to a Gallagher show for $30 once and it went 2 1/2 hours of hilarious standup comedy even before he got to smashing fruit. There’s a great entertainer!
So I am not the only one who thinks she is retarded instead of funny then.
Couldn’t have happened to a meaner liberal bitch.
I kinda like her, but then again I am pretty tweaked.
If Silverman looked like Rosie O Donell and couldn’t make adolensent bodily function jokes, she’d be an unemployed jewish unwed mother with two children in Long Island.
The one trick pony gets her comeuppance.
I never found her funny.
Well, she is pretty hot.
Gallagher is a little lame now, but in his day, at his show I saw live while in college I laughed so hard I seriously began to think I might die from not being able to breathe.
So, she’s the twit who’s trying to convince Jewish young people to fly to Florida to “schlep” for Obama among their elderly grandparents?
She’s cute — with the sound turned down.
From what I’ve seen of her sorry TV show, I’d say the chick just isn’t funny.
Pseudo Skank Chic Humor can only last so long before a vapid public goes looking for the Next Big Thing.
You goto a bad show? This was about 5 years ago he was in this area,.. It was the funniest show I’ve ever seen, live or on tv. I’ve never laughed so hard in my life.
I like our Sarah better.
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