Family Guy voice actress slams Palin’s “sense of humor”

Actress Andrea Fay Friedman, 39, voiced a Family Guy character recently in a bit that took a swipe at Sarah Palin.

In Sunday’s episode, Friedman did the voice for Chris Griffin’s date, a girl who has Down Syndrome and says that her mother is the “former governor of Alaska.” Palin predictably struck out at the show, calling the material “unfunny” and the show’s creators “cruel, cold-hearted people.” But Friedman, who herself has Down Syndrome, emailed the New York Times in response to Palin’s camp’s outrage:

I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line “I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska” was very funny. I think the word is “sarcasm.”

In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.

According to Gawker, the Times didn’t publish more scathing remarks made by Friedman in the email, in which she allegedly also said:

My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.

You can read a full Q&A with Andrea Friedman in the Times piece.