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"\n\nIn an interview with Playboy set to hit newsstands tomorrow, comedian Sarah Silverman responds to questions about her provocative brand of humor by telling a story about how &amp;quot;the onetime lead singer of a very popular band from the 1980s&amp;quot; came up to her after a show and said, &amp;quot;You&amp;apos;re my favorite comedian. You have the best nigger jokes.&amp;quot; Silverman didn&amp;apos;t outright name Journey&amp;apos;s Steve Perry, but she added, &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;ll just say this: After that, I stopped believin&amp;apos;,&amp;quot; a poke at the band&amp;apos;s classic &amp;quot;Don&amp;apos;t Stop Believin&amp;apos;.&amp;quot; \n\nWas she joking? In an interview with Rolling Stone yesterday, Perry took Silverman&amp;apos;s accusation very seriously, adamantly denying he ever used &amp;quot;the n-word&amp;quot; after meeting her backstage at a comedy show. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m really shocked. She was so friendly and so nice,&amp;quot; Perry tells RS. &amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t understand why she would go there, it&amp;apos;s so bizarre. I don&amp;apos;t use that word, are you kidding? That&amp;apos;s so derogatory.&amp;quot; Perry admits he met Silverman on a pair of occasions &amp;quot;a long time ago&amp;quot; after being &amp;quot;amazed at her ability to make people actually laugh at every racial slur and every ethnic group she could possibly come up with,&amp;quot; but insists Silverman&amp;apos;s recollection of their meeting is just another episode concocted by the controversial TV star for comedic effect.\n\nPerry tells RS, &amp;quot;I walked up to her after the show and I said, &amp;apos;I can&amp;apos;t believe that somehow you seem to be getting away with all these slurs and the n-word, I just can&amp;apos;t believe how you&amp;apos;re doing this,&amp;apos; and I looked at my friend and I said, &amp;apos;I can&amp;apos;t believe how she&amp;apos;s getting away with this,&amp;apos; and she looked at me and kind of smiled. It wasn&amp;apos;t like I was condemning her or condoning her, it was just that I can&amp;apos;t believe how somehow creatively she was making everybody in that club of all colors and all ethnic backgrounds laugh. That&amp;apos;s what it was.&amp;quot;\n\nDespite the accusation, Perry still marvels at Silverman&amp;apos;s ability to walk the dangerous line of political correctness with her comedy. &amp;quot;You&amp;apos;ve gotta see her show because she uses every ethnic slur known to man that historically has been very unforgivable,&amp;quot; Perry says. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m Portuguese, that&amp;apos;s the only ethnic background she left out, but maybe after this article she&amp;apos;ll come after me now.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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