Sarah Silverman Gets Twitter-Owned

Sarah Silverman spoke at the Technology, Education, and Design conference known as TED this year and she managed to stir quite the ruckus.

Silverman is known for her absurd comedy. She’s most known for her I’m Fucking Matt Damon song and donning blackface on her Comedy Central program. Just because she was speaking at a conference full of serious people like scientists and designers, it didn’t stop her from being edgy.

She excessively used the word, “retarded,” keeping with the Sarah-Palin-is-trying-to-make-it-the-r-word theme we’ve seen comedians go about lately. Here’s what she said:

“The only problem with adopting a retarded child is that the retarded child, when you are 80 is well, still retarded and that she wouldn’t enjoy the freedoms of setting them free at age 18, so she was only going to adopt a retarded child with a terminal illness so it has an expiration date, because who would adopt a retarded child with a terminal illness? Well, someone who was awesome like her”.

The room went silent during that part and when she was done, as she transitioned into a song about penises. When she was done, only half the room applauded.

After the conference, organizer Chris Anderson tweeted that Silverman was god-awful, but he quickly deleted it.  Silverman’s response to him was calling him a “barnacle of mediocrity on Bill Gates’ asshole.”

Steve Case, who was co-founder of AOL, tweeted that Silverman was not funny. Silverman’s response to him was that he should be nicer to the last person on earth with an AOL account, which is pretty funny. The problem is that however, and Case was sure to respond to it quickly, telling her that he left AOL 10 years and she needs new material. Silverman’s response to that was posting an article from 2005 about Case leaving the Time Warner Board, along with the mocking question: “Is 2005 10 years ago already?” Case then made sure to tweet back the fact he left AOL in 2000 and by his count that’s 10 years. Silverman never tweeted anything back, because she got pwned (Does anyone still use that typo-turned-internet-sensation phrase anymore, or are you automatically a douchebag if you use it?)

Silverman managed to get caught up in a Twitter war and now looks foolish. Let this be a lesson to all, do your research before you tweet.

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