Sarah Silverman in UK Guardian and on KCRW

The Sarah Silverman Program kicked off the second half of season two this week with an episode about the Mongols' rape and pillage of Russia in the Middle Ages. It's hilarious. No, really! You can view full episodes from seasons 1 and 2 (as well as a litany of other great shows) here and read today's Guardian UK interview with the comedian here.

A snippet:

"The biggest risk involved in being a meta-bigot is that people will think you're secretly a real bigot, wrapping your hatred in a protective blanket of irony. Some people do think this about Silverman. But the criticism that seems to have stung the most came from the New York Times writer AO Scott, who called her act "the latest evidence that mocking political correctness has become a form of political correctness in its own right. She depends on the assumption that only someone secure in his or her own lack of racism would dare to make, or to laugh at, a racist joke, the telling of which thus becomes a way of making fun simultaneously of racism and of racial hypersensitivity... Naughty as she may seem, she's playing safe." ("That was something that always festered in the back of my mind that I never talked about," Silverman has said.)"

Sarah Silverman stops by KCRW studios