Sarah the Insult Comic Dog

The cloying, vulgar comedian Sarah Silverman, who relies on cheap shots and obscenities to get laughs, is no Triumph (although she looks a little like him). Her remarks about Britney Spears immediately following the pop tart's disastrous performance at the VMAs were hurtful, which might have been acceptable if they'd been funny, but the response sounded as if the audience was comprised mostly of crickets. Now the 36-year-old is apologizing, without actually apologizing, for her sophomoric barbs. In the next issue of Us Weekly she says, "The joke that everyone was upset about – me calling the kids 'adorable mistakes' – was the most innocuous joke. It never occurred to me that would be deemed hurtful or over the line. I don't want to get into feuds with girls half my age. I'm in it to be funny and not for the drama. It's embarrassing." (AP)

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