Sarah Silverman Gets Introspective With <i>A Speck of Dust</i>
With her days of shocking punchlines behind her, the stand-up comedian has come out with an assured new Netflix special.
In her heyday, Sarah Silverman was one of the edgiest stand-up comics in America. When her first special, , came out in 2005, focused on how scandalous and transgressive it was; the writers seemed stunned to witness a comedian (a female one, at that!) kidding about the Holocaust, rape, AIDS, and disabilities on stage. That hype, of course, almost immediately built into a backlash that never fully faded away: Silverman has always been
