That is not always an easy mandate to stick with. No joke Silverman can tell now could possibly be as fucked-up as the world it's told in.

In fact, the most notable moment from the first season of I Love You, America is a monologue in which Silverman, holding back tears, talks about her disgraced friend Louis C.K. If you recall, C.K. admitted to openly masturbating in front of female comics, none of whom asked for such a gesture. Silverman's own sister Laura tweeted that C.K. had also done it in front of her multiple times. There is exactly one joke in that monologue, a good one about “the elephant masturbating in the room.” The studio audience was far too nervous to laugh at it.

As we talk about her old friend, she alternates between sitting on the floor against the front of her couch and lying all the way down on the rug. Like Jamrozy, she has back problems. She has an extra-thick shag carpet to make it comfortable to lie on the floor.

Have you spoken to Louie since his scandal happened?

“Mmm-hmm.”

And what was that conversation like?

“Fuck you! ‘Let me tell GQ about my conversations with Louie.’ Life is complicated. Love is even more complicated. But you can't not do it. I don't have some definitive sound bite or nutshell of how I feel about it, even to myself. But I'm also okay with that.”

Do you hope Louie comes back?

“I think that there are people who were caught and there were people who were not caught, but the important thing is that they are forever changed. And if that's the case, I don't see any reason why they can't continue being artists. Now, whether they're popular artists or not is up to the audience. I have compassion. There are people that just deny everything they're accused of and they continue to be the politicians or the filmmakers that they are. And there are people that come and say, I'm guilty of these things, and I'm wrong, and I want to be changed from this. And yet those are the ones that kind of are excommunicated forever. He's my brother, so it's hard. I may not have a very clear perspective on it, but I'm trying to.”

I almost think that trying is what's important.

“People are very sure about what is right and wrong until it comes to their front door.”

As I talk to her about C.K. in her apartment, there's still the same resignation in her voice that she had during the original monologue, a feeling that her friend's downfall was necessary but that it sucked all the same. Her friendship with C.K. stretches back over two decades, to when they were young N.Y.C. comics and cracking each other up late at night by riding up and down the elevators buck naked. That's a story from her autobiography that used to read as sweet and innocent, but no longer.

“I’ve worked with Al Franken for years. I’m so sad that he got bullied into resigning, because all he loved in this world was being a senator. I’ve never met a more pure person.”

This is not the only time Silverman has had to deal with a friend of hers in comedy getting called out by the #MeToo movement. She's still friends with Aziz Ansari. (“I was just like, Gross, I don't wanna know that about Aziz! Hopefully he's dealing with things, looking inward, and will blossom from it.”) She's also still friends with former senator Al Franken and extremely protective of him, which is darkly amusing because in 1993, her first year at SNL, Silverman once stabbed Franken with a pencil. She was aiming for his Afro. You know, as a joke. She got his temple instead. She was not invited back for a second season. Somehow they became buds anyway.

Did you talk to Franken after he had to resign?

“Mmm-hmm. He and [his wife] Franni are devastated. I understand that I may have cognitive distortion, because I love him so much. But all I can say is, and he may not be excited about this, but he has no sexuality. I believe in my heart of heart of hearts he never copped a feel. The sketch, the whole Leeann Tweeden sketch, is online. You can see it for yourself. It's not funny, but it's innocuous. He may have touched some sideboob by accident, or a tush by accident, but I'm telling you, Franni is his best friend and constant companion, and he has eyes for no one else. I've worked with him for years. I'm so sad that he got bullied into resigning, because all he loved in this world was being a senator and representing the people of Minnesota. I've never met a more pure person. On the show, you saw him kiss me on the lips. There is nothing sexual about it. He's a Jewish grandpa. He gives you big, Jewish, wet-lipped kisses. This is a guy whose passion was serving people and making the world a better place. There's a lot of baby-in-bathwater stuff, I think. We'll just get it in the process.”