With her new movie Jesus is Magic coming out, Sarah Silverman is getting a shitload of press. But I like this article the best because it tries to get at the latest movement of offensive comedy:

…Silverman has become an important member of a guerrilla vanguard in the culture wars that we might call the “meta-bigots”—other members include the South Park kids, Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Ali G”, and the now-AWOL Dave Chappelle. The meta-bigots work at social problems indirectly; instead of discussing race, rape, abortion, incest, or mass starvation, they parody our discussions of them. They manipulate stereotypes about stereotypes. It’s a dangerous game: If you’re humorless, distracted, or even just inordinately history-conscious, meta-bigotry can look suspiciously like actual bigotry.