Jane Espenson, former staff writer for the spectacular Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has been forced to comment on the media coverage of the MTV Video Music Awards.
All right. I wasn’t going to do this, but I have to weigh in on the Britney Spears thing. Namely, I’m very upset about the way the media has covered what happened at the Video Music Awards. I think you know what I’m referring to. Consistently, almost every source I’ve seen has flagrantly mispunctuated Sarah Silverman’s joke. Mispunctuation!
Love it. Her analysis of how the media has distorted Silverman’s joke by not accurately punctuating what she said is nothing short of brilliant (which is absolutely typical of her blog). I think we sometimes forget how important the pauses in language truly are. Well, when I say “we” I mean you people, because I’ve got the whole dramatic pausing thing down to a freakin’ science.
Oh, and if you want to independently verify Silverman’s statement you can watch the clip in question here. If you don’t want to waste your time, Jane is dead on about how Silverman delivered the joke.
