Sarah Silverman: No one calls Chapelle a potty mouth

[Tanuki]

Link to tweet

(Sarah strikes back at the tiresome, infantilizing misogyny directed at her)

[58Sunliner]

1. K & R!

[True Dough]

2. Kind of ironic

that comedians, including Sarah Silverman, who say some really over-the-top things on stage keep telling the public not to get so offended and not to be too sensitive and yet here's Silverman getting bent out of shape over being labelled a "potty mouth."

[tonedevil]

6. Why do you think it is ironic...

that a grown woman doesn't want to be referred to in the way one would a child?

[trof]

8. Right

[volstork]

10. Thank you.

[True Dough]

28. This is the same Sarah Silverman

in her own words from 2019:

"I also think it’s interesting what’s happened on the left. It’s almost like there’s a mutated McCarthy era, where any comic better watch anything they say."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmj3aw/sarah-silverman-who-did-blackface-doesnt-think-you-should-cancel-people


This article is from 2018:

“Hey, is it considered molestation if the child makes the first move? I’m gonna need a quick answer on this,” Silverman tweeted in 2009.

When the tweet was recently resurfaced, the 47-year-old defended her tweet.

“Some very odd people R saying I’m a pedo, re: a joke from a time not that long ago when hard absurd jokes by comedians were acknowledged for what they were — jokes — not a disengenuous [sic] national threat to people fake-clutching their pearls (whilst ranting the country’s too PC),” Silverman tweeted Thursday.

https://pagesix.com/2018/07/26/sarah-silverman-also-answering-for-old-child-molestation-jokes/


So I'm not going to worry if Silverman objects to being called a "potty mouth". By the way, I responded to someone else below with three examples of male comedians being referred to as potty mouths and there are others.

[tonedevil]

30. OK. /nt

[Cuthbert Allgood]

15. First of all, she's not "bent out of shape."

She's pointing out the inherent misogyny in that byline. She never ONCE use the phrase "too sensitive."

Do you not agree with her? Have you seen that term used for Pryor, Rock, Murphy, Black?

[True Dough]

19. Yep. I don't hesitate to call that "bent out of shape"

Here's Jon Stewart referring to Stephen Colbert as a "potty mouth"

https://globalnews.ca/news/3440554/stephen-colbert-daily-show-reunion/


Here's Bob Saget being called a "potty mouth"

https://www.today.com/popculture/potty-mouthed-bob-saget-comes-clean-about-his-life-dirty-2D79488144


Comedian Mike Wilmont: "potty mouth"

https://www.standup.com.au/comedian/mike-wilmont


Need more evidence? It's out there.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

24. So

one's a joke on broadcast TV, one's from not this country, and one is almost a decade old.

[True Dough]

29. So, you disagree. And I feel how I feel

I'm seeing "potty mouth" referring to comedians of both genders. I'm hearing comedians of both genders (including Sarah Silverman) telling people not to be so thin-skinned.

So what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

[Clash City Rocker]

26. Oh, why didn't I mention Saget?

His standup has always been incredibly foul-mouthed, but he somehow gets a free pass because Republicans liked Full House.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

21. Yeah

She's way off base here, unless it's part of her schtick. No misogyny whatsoever.

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. Drop the f'en mic and walk away! Well done.

[scarletwoman]

4. She's absolutely right to call out "potty mouth" - great response to the infantilizing misogyny.

I only wish she hadn't misused the tern "byline." In a newspaper, the byline is the appearance of the author's name under the headline.

What she is referring to - the line under the headline - is called a "subheading."

Headline: Sarah Silverman just wants to make things right

Subheading: The potty-mouthed comic isn’t done talking trash, but it’s no longer her first instinct, or her job.

Byline: By Geoff Edgers

Btw, here's the link to the article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/02/04/sarah-silverman-podcast-platform/?arc404=true

[Clash City Rocker]

5. Chapelle gets criticized for his language all the time

This is interesting, because the most similar comment I ever heard was from Joan Rivers, who once said something like, “people always tell me I swear too much. No one ever says that about Cosby.” Well, it turns out that Bill Cosby is a terrible person, but not because of bad language. His routines were usually pretty clean. Chapelle isn’t always, but he usually has a reason for it, and he is criticized for it.

I’m sure neither of them were trying to be racist, but it’s interesting that they both compared themselves to a black comedian. It seems to me that the comedians who go blue the most are primarily white guys. Imagine Andrew Dice Clay or Sam Kinnison ever being popular if they had to worry about offending people. I loved George Carlin, he was one of my favorites, but one of the bits that made his career was called “The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” There’s a reason George went to Showtime specials later in his career...he could say anything he wanted. I’m not sure why she singled out Chapelle.

[JanMichael]

9. I thought they were HBO specials for Carlin? nt

[Clash City Rocker]

14. Yeah, maybe you're right

I should have just said they were cable. The point was, he went to cable largely because he could swear all he wanted.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Comparing Kinison To Clay?

I believe you might be thinking of a different comic.
Kinison was more observational & self-deprecating.
He was light years from Dice Clay.

[Ferrets are Cool]

25. +1

[tonedevil]

13. Chapelle may get criticized for his language...

what he doesn't get is infantilized. That was Silverman's beef.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

16. She is specifically talking about the term "potty mouthed."

Ever see Chapelle called that?

[Clash City Rocker]

18. No, he usually gets called much worse things

That sounds like an insult a five-year-old would say.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

20. Right. Which is her point.

They are infantilizing her because she's a female and not treating her like they do male comedians. Did you not get that point from the video?

[BeerBarrelPolka]

23. Look at Post #19

[oldsoftie]

22. Wonder how Carlin, Kinnison, Murphy & Clay would be treated today?

The idiotic "cancel culture" would likely be all over them.

[coti]

34. Carlin didn't say offensive things in that same way, that I can recall

He criticized religion and politicians, but that was about as personal as he got. He didn't do much demographical stuff (talking about race or criticizing common people). On edit: Now that I think about it, I do think I remember him using "f****t" in a "character quote" context a couple times).

Kinison just wasn't any good. All he did was scream, offensive or not. Not even watchable.

But Murphy does get criticized for Raw and Delirious and "off-color" jokes in those- he's routinely called out for his material not aging well.

And Clay was basically satire and I think would get a pass in that regard. The whole idea was that the dude was being as offensive as he could possibly be, as a character.

[lame54]

32. Carlin started with 7 words...

Through the years he added many words
The growing skit was a fan favorite

[coti]

35. I have a poster from him of 1,100+ filthy words.

It's hilarious.

[lame54]

36. Is the # accurate?

[coti]

38. I never counted but it sure looks it. nt

[trof]

7. Right on Sarah!

[amb123]

11. So let me get this straight

Female Comedian who curses = "Potty-Mouth"

Male Comedian who curses = "Comedy Legend"

Fu*k that Sh*t!

[Cuthbert Allgood]

17. I love her so much.

She never disappoints.

[Auggie]

27. I'm with Sarah on this too

Lazy, trite, demeaning and uncreative headline writing by the Post

[cayugafalls]

31. I am and have always been, awestruck with Sarah.

She is brilliant and so human. I wish we were all as human as she is...

Sigh...I wish I was but human enough to be in her orbit, so instead I will take the vid-tidbits I can get.

[coti]

37. She has great stuff. Very sharp

and challenges people, too.

[MAJones]

33. Men

Don't recognize their own misogyny. Say it ain't so!