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Awkward Conversations About Uncomfortable Laughter

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  • ceci said:

    Whoopi Goldberg is one of the funniest women on television, you obviously haven’t seen any of her movies. Any way the key to longevity is to be safe and sara silverman is funny however she makes bad decisions in her jokes. she isn’t safe and frankly she won’t last long. however as a black woman i don’t personally find her jokes offensive, but my mother does. I doubt it very seriously that Silverman will be around half the time as Whoopi has.

  • Carly Kocurek (Author) said:

    I’m glad to see this column in circulation again — the issue of Silverman’s comedy hasn’t gotten any less thorny over the past few years. And, as Jenkins points out, there seems to be a proliferation of Silverman’s brand of “gee whiz” humor.