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580973, at the end of the day, it's a performance. Posted by now or never, Wed Sep-21-11 01:11 PM
where stand-up kinda gets unfairly viewed is that people look at the person doing the jokes and say "that's sarah silverman" instead of seeing it as a performance/persona that sarah silverman is doing which is something that comics spend a long time trying to create and calibrate some comic personas are closer to the actual person than others but you're looking at a person who is telling jokes and doing bits to be funny/ironic/whatever not a person who is giving you a speech or telling you the truth about what they feel so from that perspective, i don't think you can ever "call out" a comic for being racist/sexist/homophobic solely based on something they say in a bit because you still don't know anything about them, you just know the bit
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