Sarah Silverman rapes American comedy.  Arts, entertainment, and
more. Nov. 10 2005 12:04 PM  Irony Maiden  How Sarah Silverman
is raping American comedy.  Sarah Silverman, crank case  Click
image to expand. Sarah Silverman, crank case  It's fitting that
the comedian Sarah Silverman's impending cultural moment— high-
profile film, ongoing miniscandal, TV series in the making—is
going to coincide with serious public moralizing about the
sexual orientation of penguins. Silverman's work is a natural
byproduct of the high-stakes game of contemporary American
identity politics—the emotionally volatile generalizing about
our moral right to generalize. But she's not just a critic of PC
culture: She's a connoisseur. She handles the complex algorithms
of taboo—who's allowed to joke about what, to whom, using what
terminology—with instant precision: "Everybody blames the Jews
for killing Christ, and then the Jews try to pass it off on the
Romans. I'm one of the few people that believe it was the
blacks." (The joke expos