Sarah Silverman says she got away with offensive jokes because of "liberal douchiness"

Mediaite

Silverman, who is celebrating her 50th birthday today, tells the SmartLess podcast that being known as a liberal let her get away with avoiding backlash that comes with offensive jokes, according to Mediaite. “That comedy I did, it was like, ‘Oh, it’s OK because you know I don’t mean it.' But then it also is kind of like, ‘We’re liberal, so we can say anything. We can say the words that are unsayable," she said. "You know I don’t mean it, so I can say it'...There is kind of a liberal douchiness about it in retrospect. It’s a weird balance." When co-host Will Arnett pointed to a 2007 episode of The Sarah Silverman Program where she gets an AIDS test just so she can get some good news. “That’s such a funny bit, but I think people might be offended today,” he said. Silverman responded: “There are a lot of problematic things looking back, but such is comedy. It’s not evergreen.” When co-host Jason Bateman asked if she worries about comedy being under microscope these days, Silverman added: “You can’t have it both ways. If you do something that is risky, you have to be risking something. There are consequences. You can’t get mad that there are consequences.”