Zombie Comedy

So who is the most unfunny "comedian" in America? Kathy Griffin? Bill Maher? Chelsea Handler? There are lots of choices, the state of comedy being what it is these days. My nominee would be Sarah Silverman, a semi-literate woman known mostly for voice work (The Simpsons, Crank Yankers, and Wreck-It Ralph), sexual and scatological "humor," and the foulest mouth this side of an NBA locker room. She did nothing to change that reputation in a recent plunge into abortion politics. According to LifeNews:

On February 1, the Lady Parts Justice League, (founded by Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead) held a 'telethon,' called Life Is a Living Nightmare: A Telethon to Fix It. [I won't link to it. If you want to pollute your mind, you can find it on YouTube.] The fundraiser, hosted by Winstead herself, along with comedian Sarah Silverman, featured almost 4 hours of bizarre content, including abortion charades, an interview with abortionist Willie Parker, and political rants. During one of the charades, Silverman announced that a conscience clause law that prevented aborted fetuses from being used in manufactured food products would be something that 'would make her want to eat an aborted fetus.'

I'm sure that hails of guffaws at NARAL and Planned Parenthood. But it only gets worse (worse: NSFW language ahead):

The charades were called 'shitty law charades' and were introduced by a woman wearing a female genitalia costume. Two of the laws that were meant to be acted out by volunteers were 'You cannot use aborted fetuses as ingredients in the manufacture of food products,' and 'Clinics are mandated by law to cremate or bury every aborted fetus.' When the concept of conscience clause laws was explained, Silverman summed up her feelings on religious freedom: 'Religious freedom used to be such a beautiful thing cuz it was like this big inclusive thing in the country, and now it’s just this shroud to legalize hate and shit like that.'

That's some deep thinking, there. She no doubt learned it while perusing the back of a cereal box in the third grade, and has never forgotten it.

After the first law charade was acted out in horrifying detail, with one of the volunteers yelling 'kill the baby!', Winstead explained, 'This is fucking batshit. A lot of times they will create laws to make you think that this is some epidemic that needs to be addressed.' Sarah Silverman blurted out, 'if anything has ever made me want to eat an aborted fetus, it’s this law.' The law in question, legislated in Oklahoma, was created in response to a claim that a food lab was considering using stem cells to create artificial flavors. The second charade brought on another ghoulish rant about aborted fetuses from Silverman: 'Fucking funerals for fucking aborted fetuses? I would like to speak at those funerals. He lived the way he died. He died the way he lived. The size of a sesame seed with no discerning brain function.'

"No discerning [sic] brain function." Yes, by all means, let's go with that self-description.