{"id":8471,"date":"2015-12-15T13:21:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T18:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=8471"},"modified":"2015-12-15T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T18:49:09","slug":"top-50-stand-up-comedians-sarah-silverman-kevin-hart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/12\/15\/top-50-stand-up-comedians-sarah-silverman-kevin-hart\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: Sarah Silverman, Kevin Hart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/sarahsilverman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/sarahsilverman.jpg\" alt=\"sarahsilverman\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/sarahsilverman.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/sarahsilverman-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">30. Sarah Silverman<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sarah Silverman is the politically incorrect messenger that so many people in today\u2019s overly sensitive society need. She doesn\u2019t dwell on partisan politics giving her a little bit more leeway than someone like Bill Maher. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It seems to happen far more than it should, but whenever Silverman is accused of being offensive, she somehow manages to turn that into an even funnier and even edgier bit the next time out. Understanding that comedy is meant to be self-reflective, push boundaries, ask questions, and ultimately be free, Silverman at times makes her audience uncomfortable and then forces them to ask themselves why.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She isn\u2019t just a shock comedian, though. She is a master of the self-deprecating narrative jokes with twist endings. It often feels like she is carrying on a dialogue with her audience and constantly challenging them to redefine what they find funny. No subject is off limits and you will be asked to laugh at things you\u2019ve never thought of laughing at before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Witty, smart, and relentless, Sarah Silverman\u2019s comedy is disarming and engaging in ways few other comics have ever managed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SEb-sXmcMLE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">29. Kevin Hart<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kevin Hart is a phenomenal story teller. There are minor aspects of his celebrity personality &#8211; most notably a seeming inability to ever turn it off &#8211; that rub me the wrong way, but Hart telling his tales on stage is simple and perfect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether he is discussing the odd family he comes from or the one he has created, Hart has a way of appealing to almost everybody by providing caricature depictions of the stresses of home and family life. He makes fun of his own stature and relative cowardliness (I love the story when he has his kid check on a scary noise instead of doing it himself) and occasionally invites us into the world of celebrity friends he is allowed to joke about. In fact, I\u2019m giving Hart two videos just so I can include this one of him clowning on Shaq with Lebron James in attendance:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PO2_BsWFACc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His life and his family aren\u2019t exactly like mine, but when he talks about them, it feels like they are. Hart\u2019s comedy is infectious, high energy, and ultimately feel-good. He brings a little something for everybody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What\u00a0really sells Kevin Hart is his perfect rhythm and pacing. Listening to him speak is like a combination of hip hop and jazz. His performances are as musical as anyone on this list, including the one\u2019s who actually play music. Kevin Hart is a modern bard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tMgSvn2kKlk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30. Sarah Silverman Sarah Silverman is the politically incorrect messenger that so many people in today\u2019s overly sensitive society need. She doesn\u2019t dwell on partisan politics giving her a little bit more leeway than someone like Bill Maher. It seems to happen far more than it should, but whenever Silverman is accused of being offensive,<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/12\/15\/top-50-stand-up-comedians-sarah-silverman-kevin-hart\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":8479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[1446,979,3026,2771],"class_list":{"0":"post-8471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-kevin-hart","10":"tag-sarah-silverman","11":"tag-stand-up-comedy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}