Why is sarah silverman so racist

Silverman has been booed off stage for ridiculing Martin Luther King. She has also been condemned by Guy Aoki, the head of an Asian watchdog group, for telling a gag that culminated in the word "chink" on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Silverman's response was to incorporate the episode into her stand-up.

What kind of a world do we live in where a totally cute white girl can't say 'chink' on network television? Irony is used by many comics, of course, and it can hide a multitude of sins.

In these post-modern times, mocking political correctness has become a form of political correctness in itself. The thinking goes that only someone who is comfortable with their views on race can easily make fun of racism and racial sensitivity.

But if there's something Silverman does well, it's take a joke too far. In a bid to have the last word in the Aoki debate, she states: "I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin. For all her skewering of self-righteousness and hypocrisy, Silverman isn't above going for the celebrity jugular, despite being increasingly regarded as an A-lister herself. Her appearances at awards ceremonies are invariably followed by scandalised headlines.

At the MTV Movie Awards, she remarked on Paris Hilton's forthcoming jail term and expressed concern that the heiress might break her teeth while trying to fellate the prison bars.

Hilton was in the audience. The camera hovered on her astonished face before moving on to Jack Nicholson, who sat a few rows away laughing his head off. Moments after Spears had finished lip-synching her way through a catastrophic "comeback" performance, Silverman, who was a guest host, said: "Have you seen Britney's kids? Oh my God, they are the most adorable little mistakes you'll ever see. They are as cute as the hairless vagina they came out of.

Like Britney, Paris et al, Silverman's private life hasn't been without drama. The difference is that the lurid headlines have been of her own making. Six months earlier, the pair had made global news as a result of a video called I'm Fucking Matt Damon. It opens with Silverman sitting in a hotel room picking out a tune on a guitar and confessing to having an affair with the Hollywood actor. The camera then swings on to Damon himself, who agrees, "She's fucking Matt Damon" and reveals the details of their sexual encounters — "on the bed, on the floor, on a towel by the door, in the tub, in the car, up against the mini-bar" and so on.

The film was first aired on Kimmel's show and went on to become a huge viral hit, racking up 17 million hits on YouTube. Kimmel filmed his own star-studded spoof a month later with I'm Fucking Ben Affleck, but it was Silverman's film that was nominated for an Emmy. Sarah Silverman is the third of four sisters in a middle-class New Hampshire family.

Her mother was a drama-school teacher and her father owned a clothes store. Dad introduced her to swear words early, teaching her to say "bitchbasstarddamnshit" when she was three.

At 13, she was diagnosed with depression. She took three months off school and saw a psychiatrist, who prescribed Xanax and told her to come back the following week. That was such liberal-bubble stuff, where I actually thought it was dealing with racism by using racism. It makes me feel yucky. This article is more than 2 years old.

Read more. In an episode of her former Comedy Central show "The Sarah Silverman Program" that she has said she no longer stands by, Silverman's character dons dark face paint to see whether it is more difficult to be black or Jewish.

The episode, which was intended to examine racism from the point of view of Silverman's eponymous character, features the comedian saying: "I look like the beautiful Queen Latifah," and telling the congregation at an African-American church: "I'm black today.

Read More. Sarah Silverman latest in Hollywood to have past social media commentary resurface. Silverman said she "didn't fight it," but added: "It was so disheartening, it just made me real, real sad because I've kind of devoted my life to making it right.

The comedian, whose shows and stand-up routines are well-known for their provocative material, has previously said she is no longer proud of the episode. I can only be changed by it and move on. She added: "That was such liberal-bubble stuff, where I actually thought it was dealing with racism by using racism. I don't get joy in that anymore. It makes me feel yucky.