Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Kate Silverman is an American stand-up comedian, actress, producer and writer. Her comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics, such as racism, sexism, and religion, having her comic character endorse them in a sarcastic fashion. For her work on television she won two Primetime Emmy Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth1 December 1970
CityBedford, NH
CountryUnited States of America
paper shape sit
I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind of shape it up, but there's really no other way to practice other than onstage.
moving pride people
Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to if you want to move forward and stay vital. It's like people who take pride in not having a computer. I'm all, "Great, don't learn new things! Your brain is full!"
earlier found knew time
The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage. Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident.
football heart player
Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me. The juxtaposition was meant to illustrate two meanings of "offensive." Seriously. It broke my heart. It's that accepted what I do is offensive?
dreading helps talk
Even when I'm dreading it, I want to talk about it - it only helps me.
american-comedian beaten confidence nightmare stories strong year
The nightmare stories are all true, but it was good. Made me so strong after that year of getting my confidence beaten out of me.
bunch comics eat life living ready sets three wake york
I'm doing a lot of stand-up, but not like when you're living in New York and you can do three sets a night and it's your life, and you sleep all day and you wake up and you eat with a bunch of other comics and then get ready for the night.
god
What are the chances there is a God, really?
alone hard judging kissing life love loving start ultimately
I like my life alone. I mean, I love being with friends, and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.
growing watched
My growing up years, we watched 'Happy Days,' every night. I don't know what was reruns and what was new.
almost dreams drifting felt fists head looking movies vivid
I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.
funny man truly
If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny.
exactly filled joke journal life notebooks
My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.
albums class family grew tonight watching
I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman.