The Sarah Silverman Program Season 2 Vol One

Product Description Join Sarah Silverman and friends for the second season of her critically acclaimed Comedy Central series. Watch as she deports her cleaning lady, joins a radical anti-abortion group, and licks her dogs anus. She also dons blackface, brings God to her high school reunion, and goes on Cookie Party. Offended yet? No? Watch now! (studio) Amazon.com The Sarah Silverman Program: Season Two, Vol. One is one of the rare DVDs where the extras are actually funnier than the show itself. Best in the collection: A cartoon called Steve and Brian's Basement Adventure, in which Sarah's big orange gay friends discover a Tyrannosaurus egg in the basement... and things just get more absurd from there. After that comes the three-part cartoon (something about Sarah Silverman's style of humor translates well to animation) about a guy who makes such exquisite cookies that they come to life, but only want him to eat them; and a very entertaining panel appearance by the cast and creators at the 2007 Comic-Con, in which everyone makes fun of themselves, the audience, and show business in general. The actual episodes are not as strong--it's as if the writers made a laundry list of controversial topics and plugged in the most offensive way to approach them: Abortion (Sarah joins a rabid conservative group), racism (Sarah spends a day in blackface to prove it's easier to be black than Jewish), religion (Tucker Smallwood returns as God, whom Sarah sleeps with so she can have an impressive date to her high school reunion), and feces (which crops up several times). There's plenty of funny stuff, but the comedy seem more generic, less organic to Sarah's perversely oblivious persona. Fortunately, Brian Posehn and Steve Agee never fail to entertain as pot-smoking, Dungeons & Dragons playing, metalhead homosexuals. --Bret Fetzer