Do everyday people know how to talk to you?Ī: My friends do. Your persona, this kind of oblivious person who says horrible things, is so sunny. That's valid, but it leaves her vulnerable." It's a magician's approach to stand-up, which is don't give away too much. Or as Todd Jackson, editor of the stand-up comedy news blog "Dead Frog," put it, "Everything she seems to do is refracted through character, so she's reluctant to do interviews. But that is a thin, subtle line in a coarse, knee-jerk culture - a line made thinner by Silverman herself, as sweet and unfailingly polite in person as she is onstage saying horrible things about gays, African Americans, Asians or insert-ethnicity-here. What she does not play is willfully insensitive - her character never realizes how offensive she is. But that I get uniformly labeled 'offensive,' that I am the textbook example, it upsets me."īecause onstage she plays a persona, of cheerful obliviousness. "I am never upset about someone taking me the wrong way," she said in a phone interview from her Los Angeles home. Silverman, who is performing her first stand-up shows outside of Los Angeles in years, has never been confused with the sensitive. What's a sunshiny beacon of provocation to think?
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