Sarah Silverman Says Being A Liberal Is Why She Could Get Away With Making Offensive Jokes
By: Lauryn Overhultz
This is so typical of sheer condescending arrogance on the part of Hollywood and lamestream media liberals
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Comedian Sarah Silverman claimed she could get away with making offensive jokes because she’s a liberal.
Silverman made the comments during an episode of “The SmartLess Podcast,” as noted by Fox News in an article published Tuesday.
Silverman has joked about topics ranging from religion all the way to rape. She also wore blackface during a 2007 episode of her television show, “The Sarah Silverman Program.”
“I think it’s the intention behind it… I always said the opposite of what I thought and that was the joke kind of, but hopefully the truth transcends that I don’t really feel this way,” Silverman said, the outlet reported.
“That comedy I did, you’re right, it was like, ‘Oh it’s OK because you know I don’t mean it,'” Silverman reportedly continued. “But then it also is kind of like, ‘We’re liberal, so we can say anything. We can say, you know, the words that are unsayable. You know I don’t mean it, so I can say it.’ There is kind of a liberal douchiness about it, I think, in retrospect. I mean, I don’t know, it’s a weird balance.”
Actor Will Arnett, who hosts the podcast, claimed “everyone who is not liberal” has changed comedy.
“Everyone who is not liberal is so serious and so dark and so real about their negativity or hate or racism, whatever it is, that it’s taken all of that away,” Arnett said, Fox reported. “I don’t even want to joke about a lot of things that are rough or maybe pushing boundaries because you feel like, ‘I don’t want it to be taken the wrong way because there are so many people who mean it.'”
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I don't think there is much question that she is right. Although that freedom has limits out on the fringes, and I expect would go away entirely if she were to start telling jokes about liberals.
She admits that "There is kind of a liberal douchiness about it, I think, in retrospect."
And I think Will Arnett is right, “Everyone who is not liberal is so serious and so dark and so real about their negativity or hate or racism, whatever it is, that it’s taken all of that away,”.
With many conservatives being so serious about their conspiracy theories and their ingrained prejudice it's no doubt hard for any comedians or celebrities to joke about it without receiving death threats from the bitter conservative thugs. Some conservatives only consider free speech applies when its their speech being protected but are happy to censor or 'cancel' speech they disagree with or that is making fun of racist folk or dumb fuck Qanon conspiracy theorists they apparently agree with.
There is a bias as to what conservatives can say with all seriousness and not expect to be laughed at for their hilariously moronic musings. Many conservatives just can't take a joke because many aren't educated enough to understand it as a joke and few have any real sense of humor, they're too concerned with Democrat politicians and celebrities supposedly eating babies and other nonsense conspiracy theories they have absolutely zero evidence for like the fantasy deep state so many of them have their panties in a knot over.
So what you will about those of us who lean right, but around here it seems that the left wingers are for the most part angry, bitter, unhappy, and some lack any sense of humor
There are plenty of libertarian and politically conservative comedians out there. I feel like you can get away with saying just about anything you want in comedy. Someone may tweet about it - but are club owners really censoring comedians? I don't think most are.
If you want to segue your standup into other opportunities in Hollywood - that's where I think you will have more leeway to do political material if you're liberal, but even there - Hollywood doesn't seem to care too much about controversial material that is non-political - and while corporate Hollywood may give liberals a pass - what they really prefer is for everyone to be apolitical - as they don't want to alienate viewership.
You would think streaming services would help with this issue - as they allow for targeted programming - with volume enough for everyone to find a niche - versus the old broadcast model of making everything milquetoast enough for everyone. Amazon in particular seems to have quite a bit of Conservative programming for people who want it - though they don't do the same amount of original comedy programming as Netflix or HBO.
A hardcore religious conservative posts an article bemoaning the reality of comedy in the US - how entirely uninteresting. When conservatives try to be funny it comes out like Last Man Standing - the most unwatchable show on tv.