Sarah Silverman
Sarah Kate Silverman is an American stand-up comedian, actress, singer, and writer. Silverman was a writer and performer on Saturday Night Live. She starred in and produced The Sarah Silverman Program, which ran from 2007 to 2010 on Comedy Central. She hosted the Hulu web television late-night talk show I Love You, America withSarah Silverman from 2017 until late 2018.
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Sarah Kate Silverman is an American stand-up comedian, actress, singer, and writer. Silverman was a writer and performer on Saturday Night Live. She starred in and produced The Sarah Silverman Program, which ran from 2007 to 2010 on Comedy Central. For her work on television, she has won two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2015, she starred in the drama I Smile Back, for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. During the 2016 election, she became increasingly politically active; she initially campaigned for Bernie Sanders and later spoke in support of Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. She hosted the Hulu web television late-night talk show I Love You, America withSarah Silverman from 2017 until late 2018. Her comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics, such as racism, sexism, politics, and religion, sometimes having her comic character endorse them in a satirical or deadpan fashion.Silverman was born in Bedford, New Hampshire in December 1970, to Beth Ann and Donald Silverman. She considers herself secular and non-religious. She was in attendance when women lit menorahs at the Western Wall for the first time, in December 2014. Her ancestors were from Poland and Russia. Her sisters are Reform rabbi Susan Silverman, writer Jodyne Speyer, and actress Laura Silverman; her brother Jeffrey Michael died when he was three months old.
After graduating from The Derryfield School in Manchester, she attended New York University for a year but did not graduate. In 1997, Silverman made her network comedy debut on the Late Late Show with David Letterman with David Seinfeld. She also appeared in other television programs, including Mr. Show and V. I. P., and starred in films, including Who’s the Caboose?, School of Rock, Wreck-It Ralph, A Million Ways to Die in the West, and Ralph Breaks the Internet. She has stated that she was not ready for SNL when she got the job. She said that when she was fired it hurt her confidence for a a year, but after that nothing could hurt her and that she attributes her time to SNL as being a key reason why she has been so tough in her career. She parodied the situation when she appeared on The Larry Sanders Show episode \”The New Writer\”, playing Sanders’ new staff writer, whose jokes are not used because of the chauvinism and bias of his male co-writers. She appeared in three episodes of Larry Sanders during its final two seasons and had the leading role in the HBO sketch comedy series Mr Show. She had the lead role in the independent film Who’s New York? about a pair of New York comedians going to Los Angeles to try to get a part in a film. She later made a six-episode television series entitled Pilot Season in which she stars as the same character as Sederman.
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