Although many of her comedian peers have been known to cry “cancel culture,” Sarah Silverman has no problem admitting when she was wrong.
The Golden Globe-nominated comedian recently expressed regret over using racial slurs and blackface in her breakout Comedy Central series The Sarah Silverman Program, which ran from 2007 to 2010.
“I felt like the temperature of the world around me at the time was ‘We are all liberal so we can say the n-word. We aren’t racist, so we can say this derogatory stuff,’” she explained to Rolling Stone. “I was playing a character that was arrogant and ignorant, so I thought it was OK. Looking back, my intentions were always good, but they were fucking ignorant.”
Silverman has previously apologized for her racial comedy while hosting her Hulu late-night talk show I Love You, America (2017-’18), which she also used as a platform to apologize to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton over jokes she made about them.
“I don’t think of myself as being PC out of fear. Some people got mad at me for apologizing. I only did that because I was sorry,” noted Silverman. “That’s a really great rule of thumb: Only apologize when you’re sorry. Always apologize when you’re sorry.”
In her next standup special PostMortem, premiering May 20 on Netflix, Silverman uses comedy to unpack the grief around her parents’ deaths and celebrate their lives.
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