fair game
by rantywoman
Everything is fair game at a Celebrity Roast, right? That’s the whole point. And it’s not just the subjects of the roast who are under attack, it’s the hosts as well. That’s. The. Whole. Point. So at the recent James Franco Roast, Jonah Hill’s weight was fair game. Aziz Ansari’s race was…uh…fair game. And, apparently, Sarah Silverman being a super old hag of a lady who should probably just give up and get a bunch of cats is fair game.
She’s 42 people. Anyway, here are some choice words Jonah Hill flung at Silverman:
Sarah is a role model for every little girl out there. I mean, every little girl dreams of being a 58-year-old single stand-up comedian with no romantic prospects on the horizon. They all dream of it, but Sarah did it…People say it’s too late for Sarah to become successful in movies at her age. I again do not agree. It’s not impossible. I mean it’s not like they’re asking you to bear children or anything like that.
So yeah, that’s a sh*tty, stupid thing to say. But as I mentioned, that’s the point of a roast. Everything is fair game. So what makes Sarah Silverman’s response so noteworthy?
thebitterbabe 
I really do love her. As gross, and racist and disgusting her jokes can be, I love that she stands up for women and stands up for freedom of speech.
I’ve always found her brilliantly funny and felt that her material about race etc. was done in a manner in which she is playing the rube… that we are supposed to be laughing at her character for being racist, not with her character. Whereas when these men make ageist jokes, they are not doing it in the manner where the joke is on them, where they are playing “dumb, bro-like” characters who makes stupid ageist jokes… they are just making ageist jokes like typical dumb, bro-like guys. It’s an extremely important distinction that I think has been lost in the criticism of her. That said, I do not know all her material or any of the jokes she made on the roast, which may have been offensive.
Also, she used to have a joke in which she, as an older woman, wonders why there are not as many “pussy inspectors” as there used to be. In other words, she, as an older woman, is too clueless to know that she is no longer as sexually appealing. I hated that joke! Maybe this will make her reconsider that one.