Words cannot express how much I adore Sarah Silverman. In her latest interview with The Guardian, Sarah talks about how she wishes she didn't host the VMAs, and about her history of depression. When asked why she regrets the VMAs she says, "Well, I liked the jokes I did, but all anyone focused on was that it was mean. But they put me on immediately after Britney, so I had to do jokes. Everyone else laughed, but Britney wasn't ready to laugh at herself."
As for her depression, Sarah explained that when she was 13-16 she went to a series of psychiatrists that just wanted to give her anti-depressants, "I went to another therapist who prescribed me 16 Xanax a day, I'm not kidding! And I was only 13! I didn't feel better. I didn't feel anything! I finally went to this Mexican psychiatrist who could not believe the medication I was on. He said, 'You can't just go off this cold turkey, you could die'."
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An argument for a more nuanced perspective on Silverman from Alternet:
"Does Sarah Silverman Suck?" by Kera Bolonik (The Nation)
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/64563/?page=2
"If comedy means pissing people off and loving that about oneself, appearing more self-entitled than self-aware and spearheading an even more discomforting subgenre of comedy -- then Mazel Tov, dahlink!"