Vanity Fair Analysis

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video it was reported that Vanity Fair wanted to ask comedian Sarah Silverman her point of view about the situation to get a comedian's perspective. The entire situation is just an example of how people now comedians are afraid to say what they want and they would rather hold back than to say it. Sarah Silverman’s answer was the opposite. Silverman goes on with saying that she feels like as a human it is important to change with the times and change with new information and no, she is not saying that the comedians are outdated. Instead, what she means is that, in the example she gave was that back then she used to make jokes that said “O that’s so gay,” to say “O that’s so lame” and that she felt it was okay to use the word gay in that context

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