Silverman leads cult of personalities at TBS Just for Laughs Chicago

Sarah Silverman, you're such a scold. At the Chicago Theatre late Saturday night, the unfiltered comedian was confronted with so many tweeters, texters and compulsive amateur photographers as she hosted her marquee show at the TBS Just for Laughs comedy festival, she felt the need to deliver numerous sermons on How to Watch A Live Performance. "Look at you," she snarled, venomously, to one seemingly oblivious dude in the front row, "eating popcorn like you're watching a movie and not a real person TWO FEET IN FRONT OF YOU. Is this the respect that dance gets? Is that what they do to Brian Dennehy at 'The Iceman Cometh'?"

Chris Jones

June 18, 2012