Though lots of her comic friends have been recognized to cry “cancel tradition,” Sarah Silverman has no downside admitting when she was improper.
The Golden Globe-nominated comic just lately expressed remorse over utilizing racial slurs and blackface in her breakout Comedy Central sequence The Sarah Silverman Program, which ran from 2007 to 2010.
“I felt just like the temperature of the world round me on the time was ‘We’re all liberal so we are able to say the n-word. We aren’t racist, so we are able to say this derogatory stuff,’” she defined to Rolling Stone. “I used to be enjoying a personality that was boastful and ignorant, so I believed it was OK. Trying again, my intentions had been all the time good, however they had been fucking ignorant.”
Silverman has beforehand apologized for her racial comedy whereas internet hosting her Hulu late-night discuss present I Love You, America (2017-’18), which she additionally used as a platform to apologize to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton over jokes she made about them.
“I don’t consider myself as being PC out of concern. Some folks obtained mad at me for apologizing. I solely did that as a result of I used to be sorry,” famous Silverman. “That’s a very nice rule of thumb: Solely apologize if you’re sorry. At all times apologize if you’re sorry.”
In her subsequent standup particular PostMortem, premiering Might 20 on Netflix, Silverman makes use of comedy to unpack the grief round her dad and mom’ deaths and have a good time their lives.
