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Sarah Silverman and Samantha Bee were better at tackling Louis CK -- and it's not just because they're women

  • Vox

    “On the one hand, yes, they’re both women; their perspectives on the situation are not only different but give them a certain advantage in understanding it that their male peers will never have,” says Caroline Framke. “But on the other, Bee and Silverman did something that no one else has: They straight up acknowledged that they’re a part of the community that has traditionally fostered men like CK and (Al) Franken.” Framke adds: “Obviously, Bee and Silverman can comment on this whole mess from a much different place than any man in late night possibly could. But it was their choice to lean into that fact, and to speak specifically about their personal connections to the story, while their male peers’ more general condemnations of harassment did little to examine their own links to the problem going unchecked within the comedy community.”

    TOPICS: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman, Louis CK, Samantha Bee, Sarah Silverman, Late Night, Sexual Misconduct