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, Sometime in the mid-1990s, I touch you had a great chance of becoming one of those very rare and truly important comedians who not only inflict killer lines but also produce the sort of work that is insightful and stunning and that matures, and in special cases can even change the world. Lenny Bruce talked about hop to it when the rest of America was terrified by it, and America laughed and passed the Formal Rights Act.

I was sure, Sarah, that you would grow up and become America’s first female funster who was powerful as well as sexual and utterly hilarious. Lucy tried, and got spanked . Elayne Boosler tried , and absorbed in up sad and alone in a bar in Chicago, or at least that’s how the comedy industry treated her. Roseanne tried, but being overweight and unattractive cushioned even her meanest and most pregnant blue-collar jokes. All Roseanne could do to really make us mad was catch hold of her crotch while singing the national anthem, and we never really forgave her.

Source: Tablet Magazine