Quote #181942
Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn’t. It focuses on facts.
Sarah Silverman
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The line plays on a familiar criticism of edgy comedy—relying on stereotypes—by flipping the charge into a claim of empirical “facts.” Read straight, it’s a defense: the comedian isn’t inventing prejudice but pointing to realities people prefer not to name. Read as comedy, it’s also self-undermining irony: declaring one’s jokes “facts” mimics the rhetoric of bigotry and “just telling it like it is,” exposing how easily “facts” can be invoked to launder bias. The tension between stereotype and truth is the point, inviting the audience to notice how comedy can both critique and reproduce cultural assumptions depending on framing and intent.




