TechCrunch is currently gloating over Chris Anderson of TED’s disappointment with Sarah Silverman’s TED Talk. I love watching the videos of ideas that come out of TED, but I’m also a fan of Silverman’s shock humor. Anderson’s reaction is completely unreasonable, and it reminds me of Stephen Colbert’s 2006 White House Correspondent’s Dinner speech. Silverman, like Colbert, has a certain brand of comedy, and if you don’t know what you’re getting into when you sign on to one of them, that’s your own problem and it shows a real disconnect.

(This isn’t the first time I’ve embedded this video.)