Sarah Silverman Justifies the Ends

Sarah Silverman added her own video clip last week to the streams of women with anecdotal evidence about women making less money than men for the exact same job. Anecdotal evidence has been trumping scientific data since the dawn of time, with a sharp upward trend in the Facebook age. Silverman recalled that time her buddy Todd Barry played a fifteen minute set at the New York Comedy club and got slapped three twenties while she performed immediately after and the club owner game her ten bucks. Indisputable, undeniable, unassailable proof. The Hernandez jury convicted on less. The New York Comedy club owner she named, Al Martin, had a different angle.

I did not pay you less cause of gender …..I paid you less because Todd Barry was booked and you weren’t. It was a GUEST SPOT, so I gave you some car fare, which actually is more than almost any club would have given for a GUEST Spot. Funny how in your attempt to become a super hero with a noble cause, you forgot that little fact.

Al Martin later went on to say that he actually thinks the gender wage gap is a real issue, though naturally like everybody else, he’s never been party to it. Maybe the neighbors nobody likes. They’re always up to no good. Sarah Silverman issued an apology to Al Martin exclusively on Slate magazine where like minded friends could tell her her mistake wasn’t so bad. Silverman reminded everybody that even though her personal story of gender wage gap turned out to be bogus, the issue remains more real than ever. She’s pretty smart. I bet she realizes how stupid that sounds.

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