Sarah Silverman is the latest celebrity to be confronted with an unfortunate tweet from the past, with the 47-year-old comedian issuing a response after a joke she tweeted about child molestation rose to the surface courtesy of a conservative website.
Silverman is the latest Hollywood figure to be targeted by a conservative group in what appears to be right-wing retaliation for Roseanne Barr’s termination from her “Roseanne” reboot due to a tweet considered to be racist.
Silverman’s controversy comes hot on the heels of “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn being fired from Disney over some pedophilia jokes he tweeted more than a decade ago, and “Rick and Morty” creator Dan Harmon deleting his Twitter account and apologizing for an online comedy sketch that depicts him molesting a baby doll.
Back in 2009, Silverman issued this tweet.
Nine years later, conservative website Townhall.com published a story unearthing the controversial tweet, including a response she issued last year to a Twitter user who didn’t find the joke funny.
On Thursday, Silverman — a politically active Democrat who campaigned for Hillary Clinton — issued a response to the controversy:
