{"id":169109,"date":"2025-05-18T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/sarah-silverman-admits-to-being-ignorant-early-in-her-career\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T22:01:09","slug":"sarah-silverman-admits-to-being-ignorant-early-in-her-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/sarah-silverman-admits-to-being-ignorant-early-in-her-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Silverman admits to being &#8216;ignorant&#8217; early in her career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-05-18\" datetime=\"1747605669\" pubdate=\"\">18 May 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/sarah-silverman\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,sarah-silverman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Silverman<\/a> regrets using racial slurs in her old comedy routines.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Sarah Silverman has acknowledged her past mistakes<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old comedian admits that she made a mistake using racial slurs and blackface on &#8216;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/sarah-silverman\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,sarah-silverman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Silverman<\/a> Program&#8217;, her TV sitcom that ran from 2007 until 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah told Rolling Stone magazine: &#8220;I felt like the temperature of the world around me at the time was \u2018We are all liberal so we can say the n-word. We aren\u2019t racist, so we can say this derogatory stuff.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was playing a character that was arrogant and ignorant, so I thought it was OK. Looking back, my intentions were always good, but they were f****** ignorant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sarah actually received criticism for apologising for her controversial comedy sketches. But the actress thinks she was right to apologise.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;I don\u2019t think of myself as being PC out of fear. Some people got mad at me for apologising. I only did that because I was sorry.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;That\u2019s a really great rule of thumb: Only apologise when you\u2019re sorry. Always apologise when you\u2019re sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nEarlier this year, Sarah admitted that she was consciously &#8220;ignorant-arrogant&#8221; in the early years of her career.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe comedian feels she learned some invaluable lessons from her past mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>\nSarah told the Guardian newspaper: &#8220;Some comics are like, \u2018Never apologise.\u2019 My rule is, \u2018Always apologise when you\u2019re sorry and never apologise when you\u2019re not.\u2019 It\u2019s so simple \u2013 I felt sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nSarah feels proud that she&#8217;s evolved and matured during her stand-up career.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;I like being a part of the world around me, learning new stuff and being changed by it. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Comics who are still doing that thing or voice or personality they had when they got famous, that\u2019s such a bummer. To be the same person creatively as you were 20 years ago doesn\u2019t feel like success to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nA number of new comics have been influenced by Sarah&#8217;s &#8220;ignorant-arrogant&#8221; era &#8211; but she doesn&#8217;t feel any bitterness towards them.<\/p>\n<p>\nSarah said: &#8220;I\u2019ve seen legendary comics feel so frustrated by seeing the next generation take their influence and go further. I saw how it ate at them \u2013 and that\u2019s no way to live. You should be thrilled that you touched people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/sarah-silverman-admits-ignorant-early-career-1418998.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 May 2025 Sarah Silverman regrets using racial slurs in her old comedy routines. Sarah Silverman has acknowledged her past mistakes The 54-year-old comedian admits that she made a mistake using racial slurs and blackface on &#8216;The Sarah Silverman Program&#8217;, her TV sitcom that ran from 2007 until 2010. 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