Sarah Silverman Speaks on Louis C.K.: ‘Can You Love Someone Who Did Bad Things?’
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Sarah Silverman Speaks on Louis C.K.: ‘Can You Love Someone Who Did Bad Things?’
In a new episode of her Hulu series, “I Love You, America,” to be released Thursday, Ms. Silverman delivered an emotional opening monologue in which she spoke about Louis C. K., who has been a longtime friend
and colleague of hers, and she wondered aloud: “Can you love someone who did bad things?”
Ms. Silverman began the monologue by saying that the growing wave of “calling-out of sexual assault has been a long time coming.”
“It’s good,” she said.
But it’s necessary and we’ll all be healthier for it.” One inevitable consequence, she said, is
that “some of our heroes will be taken down, and we will discover bad things about people we like, or in some cases, people we love.”
Ms. Silverman’s remarks followed public comments from other comedy peers of Louis C. K., including Marc Maron, who discussed him on his WTF podcast on Monday,
and Jon Stewart, who spoke about him in an interview Tuesday on the “Today” show.
But then I remembered something I said on this very show,
that if it’s mentionable, it’s manageable, so I’m going to address the elephant masturbating in the room.”
“One of my best friends of over 25 years, Louis C. K., masturbated in front of women,” she said, adding
that he “wielded his power with women” in ways that were troubling and sometimes made these women feel they had to leave the field of comedy entirely.
In a new episode of her Hulu series, “I Love You, America,” to be released Thursday, Ms. Silverman delivered an emotional opening monologue in which she spoke about Louis C. K., who has been a longtime friend
and colleague of hers, and she wondered aloud: “Can you love someone who did bad things?”
Ms. Silverman began the monologue by saying that the growing wave of “calling-out of sexual assault has been a long time coming.”
“It’s good,” she said.
But it’s necessary and we’ll all be healthier for it.” One inevitable consequence, she said, is
that “some of our heroes will be taken down, and we will discover bad things about people we like, or in some cases, people we love.”
Ms. Silverman’s remarks followed public comments from other comedy peers of Louis C. K., including Marc Maron, who discussed him on his WTF podcast on Monday,
and Jon Stewart, who spoke about him in an interview Tuesday on the “Today” show.
But then I remembered something I said on this very show,
that if it’s mentionable, it’s manageable, so I’m going to address the elephant masturbating in the room.”
“One of my best friends of over 25 years, Louis C. K., masturbated in front of women,” she said, adding
that he “wielded his power with women” in ways that were troubling and sometimes made these women feel they had to leave the field of comedy entirely.