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Sarah Silverman Wants The Pope To Sell His Crib To Feed The World

Sarah Silverman, quirky quirkball comedian, has a plan the end world hunger: She wants The Pope to sell the Vatican and use the money to feed the world. Harhar.

This is supposed to be “one of those viral videos” that blows up the Internet and that everyone is running around quoting, but honestly? Blah. Played out. And frankly? I don’t even know what this video is supposed to be doing. You have to watch the entire thing only to find out that there’s no link to a charity with an actual plan to end world hunger and in the mean time you get to sit through her staple material: Holocaust and pussy jokes.

I go back and fourth between finding Silverman to be really good at what she does and pretty decent at her own extremely played-out bit and this video definitely makes me think the latter. While I think it would be great if she was doing something to actually help aid world hunger (as opposed to just mentioning it several times in a video that doesn’t offer one reasonable tip on how to solve this problem) and would find it extremely difficult to criticize, this just seems like a really lame attempt at making jokes about something that her peers actively work to combat.

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  • That wasn’t super hilarious, but I’ve always kinda thought that the Pope should get his ass off his throne and sell some shit to feed the poor too. He’s always, “Blah, blah, blah, feed the poor” but I can’t help but notice he’s saying these things from a golden castle on a golden throne.

    • The Catholic church is one of the most charitable organizations in the world. Should Obama do the same? Should he roll up his sleeves and start planting the fields? He’s always talking about our responsibility to take care of the have nots. And please, this is really hard to take seriously coming from an overpaid actor/comedian.

  • hey “molls” if youre gonna critique sarah silverman at least be funnier than she is… i mean come on.

  • Its not surprising for Silverman (a Jew) to attack the Pope (a Catholic) when he and the church are easy targets. She should put her money where her mouth is.

    • Wow. Way to make the issue something it isn’t.
      I think the point is that the Pope is always talking about doing good deeds and helping those who are less fortunate. That’s nice. But the message doesn’t ring very true when he’s issuing these statements from the safety and comfort of his giant, treasure filled castle.
      It doesn’t sound better coming from the Pope than it does coming from televangelists and mega-church pastors who are driving expensive cars and living in expensive homes.
      The Pope, and every other religious leader, who are asking the world to do more are doing so based on their religious beliefs, from a position of religious authority.
      Sarah Silverman is nobody’s religious leader, therefore, she really doesn’t have the same “put up or shut up” responsibility that goes along with taking money from your congregation.

      • the actual individual doesn’t own anything. i don’t think he gets paid either. it’s the institution that owns everything.

      • Yeah but he runs the organization and I think they have to pretty much do whatever he says since they think he’s the mouthpiece of God and basically infallible (in their opinion at least.)

      • also, the pope takes a vow of poverty before he takes the office. so, he really has nothing to give. everything that he uses is pretty much borrowed by the vatican.

      • *raises eyebrow* Vow of poverty? That sounds like a legal maneuver. It certainly isn’t an apt description of his circumstances.

      • the pope takes a vow of poverty, obedience, and chastity before he takes office. i believe they are part of the canon laws which were created a long time ago, like in 500 b.c.e

        honestly, i’m not a big fan of organized religion and the catholic church definitely isn’t perfect. but you’re making it seem like he’s going around buying everything. the house, the cars, etc. are given to him while he is pope. he’s merely a boarder, just like our president is a boarder of the white house until his term is up.

        like i said before, he doesn’t own anything. Everything is owned by the Vatican City. of course, he has amazing privileges though.

      • There are a great many people with no personal property who would love to trade their brand of poverty for the Pope’s.

      • Anonymous, I really hope you were joking or exaggerating when you said you thought canon law was created in 500 B.C.E.

      • To Harriet Meadow: yea i was wrong when the canon laws came out, but the vows have been around since early Christianity.

        To alazaetia: the pope does more than just chill in big palaces all day. people are always plotting to kill the pope, you have tension with other world and religious leaders, you have to be chaste, etc. he definitely has a great life, but his job isn’t exactly easy.

      • I never said he sits around doing nothing all day. I said he has a throne and he lives in a giant castle filled with treasure, from which he issues statements about the need for the rest of world to help the poor.
        I also said that his version of “poverty” is not the same as the rest of the world’s poverty. I think that to imply that the Pope is impoverished is ridiculous nonsense.

    • Yeah, because the Jews have had it out for Catholics for years, eve since the Jews killed Jesus all those years ago.

      Thank you Mel “Joe” Gibson.

  • First of all, not funny. Second of all, stupid.
    Last I knew, the Pope didn’t own the Vatican.
    Besides that, even if he did and he sold it to buy food, the food would eventually run out and we would be right back where we are.
    Not a solution. Perhaps if the Catholic church stopped telling people to not use contraceptives and to keep having children they can’t feed it might help.
    Or as a start, Ms. Silverman could sell her 48 inch plasma tv and buy a homeless family some groceries.

    • Pretty much all of her comedy is about acting like a clueless hypocrite- that was the point of her plasma tv joke.

      Also, I think Anonymous still missed the point that Harriet Meadow made- I don’t think the Catholic church was doing much of anything before Christ even existed (BC/BCE)…

  • I would settle for Sarah Silverman hiring a stylist. That would be an acceptable middle ground between the status quo and a resolution to world hunger. That would work for me.

  • I saw this Friday night on Bill Maher’s Real Time and assumed it was just a segment produced for that show, and in that context (where i assumed from the start it was just jokes) I thought it was decent. not great but ok. And yes, Matt wins for worst logic ever.

  • The Catholic Church does more for the poor than any of these Hollywood clowns.

    And if she said this about any other religion it would be condemned as bigoted and insensitive. Catholics are the one minority in America that it is OK to slander with bigotry and hate.

    • Yes they do a lot, but not necessarily a lot of good. It’s not the people that are the problem, it’s the dogma they are attached to. And it’s not just the Catholic church that’s the problem either. Any group predicated on the belief in a personal deity (i.e. one that gives a crap about our day to day lives) is fundamentally flawed. They cause so much psychological damage to people that no amount of good deeds could possibly ever hope to make up for it.

    • Catholics are the one minority in America that it is OK to slander with bigotry and hate.

      The Catholic Church is by no means a “minority” in the U.S. it has close to 67million followers larger than most other denominations.

  • blaaah blaaah blaaah, instead of posting so many comments about your neverending OPINIONS, why dont you get off the couch and help the poor. its everyones duty to help and find a solution to the problem, not just the pope.

    YET i get this is a gossip site, which = trivial gossip news, so dont go making this site something its not, like relevant to world problems. all i’m interested in when i visit this page if is whats lindsay lohan up to . period.

    • the whole point of comment is to post your opinion.

      why does discussing a substantial topic – i.e poverty, upset you so much? you can be in denial about the world’s problems, but that doesn’t mean other people are.

  • Let’s not lose sight of the what this is about. Sarah Silverman not being funny. Yes, she can be hilarious. I love her “F’ing Matt Damon” routine. But it was funny because she actually had Matt Damon with her. Otherwise, blah.

  • Every one of us has the power to improve the world, it just requires us all to work toward one common goal. As it is, we are too scattered for such an alliance to occur. And have you ever noticed how not that many people are willing to make sacrifices for the good of the world? Giving up time, a little money, using reusable bags instead of plastic. Props to the people that do though.

    In any case, her skit was intended to be comedic, which it was. Wasn’t really a direct challenge to the pope. I’m sure if it was, there’d be a far more convincing argument than “all the pussy.”

  • She’s clueless. I agree with the commenter who said that even if the Pope himself DID own the Vatican and sold it all the money would eventually run out and we’d be back to square one. Poverty and hunger are SYMPTOMS of a larger problem that won’t be fixed until each country comes to terms with its own ruling elite, throws it out on its ear, expropriates its property and puts the means of production in the hands of the workers, working poor and desperately poor. Until the whole capitalist social order is smashed all we are doing is putting band-aids on arterial bleeding. Or like a dog chasing its tail for a less grotesque comparison.

    The ultimate goal of humanity has to be that every baby that is born is born into the same good opportunity. Not born into poverty or wealth but a good middle class lifestyle. Until humanity begins to work toward that goal we are all just dumb animals.

  • I was just chatting with my friend about this today at the resturant. Don’t know how in the world we landed on the topic really, they brought it up. I do remember eating a amazing chicken salad with ranch on it. I digress…