Comedian Sarah Silverman has built her brand on envelope-pushing humour for years, and, if you ask her, she’s been able to get away with it due to her “liberal douchiness.”
“That comedy I did, it was like, ‘Oh, it’s OK because you know I don’t mean it,’” she said.
You know I don’t mean it, so I can say it.’”
In 2019, Silverman said on The Bill Simmons Podcast that she’d been been dropped from a project after the filmmakers saw the aforementioned blackface episode.