please, RAW was 1987. its been 20 years, plenty of other comedians are offensive, vulgar, and racist and know how to make people laugh. (chappelle, louis ck, etc) But then you have these people who try and ride the coattails of that success being painfully obvious in their humor/vulgarity. Its the way that people like sarah silverman and carlos mencia deliver their material. shes only given a show for the same reason he is, because she'll say whatever she can for shock value. Look at where else shes been with her career in the last decade, a B-movie actress (if you even want to give her B) playing the gf of someone in a movie with like 5 lines (for good reason). nothing she is doing is revolutionary to comedy.
maybe im just too critical on them because they are women. i dont think they pick right topics to talk about to their audience, and even if they do, there delivery of it is terrible, theres no subtlety or conviction in what they are saying. i have yet to watch a female comedian make me laugh. and you dont even really hear about them at all anyway. who are the big female comics? sarah silverman? lisa lampanelli? wanda sykes?