Is Sarah Silverman funny?

When it was announced that Sarah Silverman would be gracing London with her presence, a few of my more adventurours comedy friends were excited. At least until the price of £40 a ticket was revealed, at which point my friends slowly backed away from the idea of buying a ticket.

Personally, I'm not sure why they find it funny to laugh at a skinny white Jewish woman making a complete balls-up about hot taboo topics like racism and AIDS. I'm fairly sure most grandmothers do the same thing, for a start. But then I've never really liked The Office or South Park either - what's so funny about five-year-olds saying naughty things? (I will readily admit to loving the South Park Movie - for whatever reason, that so works as a spoof of musicals).

It would seem that having actually had to face Ms Silverman, many London fans were rather disappointed when they spent £40 and only got 35 minutes of her performance, followed by a rather weak Q&A when she revealed that she had no more material.

I'm not too sure why you'd fly 6 hours across the Atlantic to perform just 35 minutes of material that you've performed before - especially considering she'd done the publicity circuit that weekend, miming a blowjob with Ricky Gervais on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.

Anyway, bring on Eddie Izzard in December. Although he's cost me £50 a ticket...