SARAH SILVERMAN: JESUS IS MAGIC | 2005 | This is essentially Sarah Silverman's one-woman show, which played Off Broadway in 2004 and was filmed at a Hollywood theater. There are cut-aways for hilariously rhymed musical numbers that have a Rocky Horror schlocky pizzazz. One of the best is the introductory segment, which begins in the apartment of a pair of friends. Silverman says she's working on a one-woman show (about "the Holocaust and AIDS . . . and it's a musical"), then heads home kicking herself for bragging about the as-yet-unwritten show, then with true Andy Hardy pluck decides that, gosh darn it, she can write a show: "All I need is a theater space, a bag of weed, and . . . a star!" She sings to her nana and her nursing-home pals, "No, it's not cold in here, you're just dying!"; in a finale she sings three-part harmony from mouth, vagina, and butt to an upbeat "Amazing Grace." She uses the word "nigger," tells how she ran afoul of a Chinese advocacy group and network censors for saying "Chink" on Conan O'Brien, and demurely relates how she told her boyfriend she didn't want to have sex "the real way" because "doody comes out of there." Sometimes -- as in some of her riffs on African famine and AIDs -- it isn't so much that the joke is offensive as that it simply lands with a thud. But she scores enough points to keep Jesus Is Magic sailing.

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