Sarah Silverman: Give Me Equal Pay or Give Me a Sex Change

byHoward Davidson, Arlington, MA

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Sarah Silverman illustrates the enormity of the wage gap by

demanding equal pay…or the sex change required to get it.

Slide By :- Howard Davidson Arlington MA

The trendy Manhattan ad agency Droga5 recently launched its second collaboration with the brazen comedienne Sarah Silverman. Like their first spot – which encouraged young Jewish adults to convince their grandparents in Florida to vote for Barack Obama – this ad is also political in nature. Unlike the previous spot, this one’s probably NSFW.

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This project benefits the National Women’s Law Center’s push for equal pay across genders. Silverman explains that the average woman will earn nearly a half million dollars less than her male counterpart over the course of her career. She sets off to crowdsource $30 trillion, enough to pay every woman back for wages lost to the gender gap.

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Realizing the impossible nature of her fundraiser, Silverman decides it would be far cheaper to get a sex change. In vintage Silverman style, this leads to a hilarious scene in a doctor’s office, in which the comic – with the help of a sarcastic doctor – chooses her new penis.

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Silverman had creative input on the script, and it shows. The nearly four-minute ad is filled with her trademark awkward humor and overtly literal verbiage. (“That’s a $500,000 vagina tax!) It’s so funny that it ends up feeling almost like a truncated episode of her since-cancelled Comedy Central series “The Sarah Silverman Program.”

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It’s ridiculous that the wage gap is still such a serious matter in 2014. The tone of this spot is just as silly as the fact that women still make just 78 cents to a man’s dollar. And who better than Sarah Silverman – with or without a penis – to get that message across?

Howard Davidson Arlington Massachusetts

Slide By :- Howard Davidson Arlington MA