... I agree with a lot of these people who love her on many other things. That's why it's disappointing when she's championed as an edgy comic, when she's just making shock jokes like so many others. I mean, I know people who despise Andrew Dice Clay with a passion but think Sarah Silverman is just the bee's knees.

Although I've been hedging in a lot of the posts I made in this thread, because I do think her female oriented stuff is funny and legitimately a little edgy and progressive.

Maybe the real issue is that in order for jokes like this to work, you need to have actual group membership for you to be able to pass them off as funny. I mean, look at Margaret Cho -- how people don't just roll their eyes at some of her blatantly racist humor is always beyond me. She's the perfect parallel to Sarah Silverman, really.