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Full Sarah Silverman Biography
Sarah Kate Silverman (born December 1, 1970) is an American comedian, writer and actress. Although usually credited as Sarah Silverman, she is sometimes credited by her nickname Big S or Sarah 'Big S' Silverman. Her comedy deals with topical humor and satire, societal taboos, and controversial topics such as racism, sexism and religion.
Her comedy acts are sometimes performed from a caricatured or stereotypical Jewish-American princess perspective, in which, according to Village Voice writer Michael Musto, she mocks bigotry and ethnic or religious stereotypes by endorsing them ironically. Silverman was first noticed as a writer for Saturday Night Live. She now stars in and produces the The Sarah Silverman Program, which debuted February 1, 2007, on Comedy Central.
On the Comedy Central Roast for Hugh Hefner in 2001 -“Jimmy Kimmel, everyone. He's fat and has no charisma. Watch your back, Danny Aiello!”
Silverman is a fan of Jenny Lewis and appeared in one of Lewis' music videos. She is also a fan of comedian Steve Martin, who was one of her major inspirations as a younger comedian.
Silverman received national exposure after earning a role on the 1993–94 season of Saturday Night Live. She was a writer and featured player at the time, but was fired after one season because she wrote only one sketch that survived to dress rehearsal, with none ever airing. Bob Odenkirk, a former SNL writer who knew her from her stand-up act in Los Angeles, explained why she was fired: "I could see how it wouldn't work at SNL because she's got her own voice, she's very much Sarah Silverman all the time. She can play a character but she doesn't disappear into the character—- she makes the character her." Silverman claims being fired by SNL in an undignified manner (via fax), upset her greatly. The situation was parodied when she appeared on The Larry Sanders Show episode "The New Writer", in which she plays Sander's new staff writer, whose jokes are not used because of chauvinism (and associated bias of the male chief comedy writer), who favors the jokes of his male co-writers. She had a recurring role on Larry Sanders for its last several seasons.
Silverman worked on the HBO sketch comedy show Mr. Show with Bob and David, where she was a featured performer. She made guest appearances on such programs as the 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Money", the two-part time-travel episode "Future's End" of Star Trek: Voyager and as a series regular on the TV show Greg the Bunny (2002), playing serious characters, as well as the voice of character "Hadassah Guberman" on the salacious puppet television comedy Crank Yankers. She has also had small parts in films such as There's Something About Mary, Say It Isn't So, School of Rock, The Way of the Gun, Overnight Delivery, Screwed, Heartbreakers, Evolution, School for Scoundrels and Rent, playing a mixture of comic and serious roles. On November 11, 2005, her stand-up comedy act (one-woman show) was released as a feature film, Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic. As part of the publicity campaign surrounding the film, Silverman made several high profile appearances, including online in Slate, as the cover subject of Heeb magazine, and performing on the Comedy Central roasts of Pamela Anderson and Hugh Hefner.
Silverman made the cover of the March 12, 2006 issue of The Observer with an article titled "If women aren't funny, how come the world's hottest, most controversial comedian is female?"
In 2005, she played a therapist in a skit session with Josh Homme of the band Queens of the Stone Age. This interview was on the bonus DVD of their album Lullabies to Paralyze. In 2006, she placed #50 in the annual Maxim List. In 2007, she placed #29 and appeared on the cover of the magazine's Hot 100 List issue.
On June 3, 2007, Silverman hosted the MTV Movie Awards. During her opening act, she commented on Paris Hilton's then-upcoming jail sentence with Hilton being in attendance: "In a couple of days, Paris Hilton is going to jail As a matter of fact, I heard that to make her feel more comfortable in prison, the guards are going to paint the bars to look like penises. I think it is wrong, too. I just worry she is going to break her teeth on those things."
Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 'fresh' rating of 64 percent with 54 positive reviews and 30 negative ones, with the "cream of the crop" giving it a rating of 67 percent.
Silverman's own sitcom, The Sarah Silverman Program, debuted on Comedy Central on February 1, 2007. It is similar to the The Larry Sanders Show in that it presents a fictionalized version of the actress.
The show proved to be a ratings success, scoring the highest premiere ratings that a Comedy Central show had in three years, with 1.8 million viewers and the highest 18–49 rating of the night on cable.
Features:
- Who's the Caboose? (1997)
- Overnight Delivery (1998)
- Bulworth (1998)
- There's Something About Mary (1998)
- The Bachelor (1999)
- What Planet Are You From? (2000)
- Screwed (2000)
- The Way of the Gun (2000)
- Black Days (2001)
- Say It Isn't So (2001)
- Heartbreakers (2001)
- Evolution (2001)
- Run Ronnie Run (2002)
- School of Rock (2003)
- Hair High (2004) (voice)
- The Aristocrats (2005) (documentary)
- Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (2005)
- Rent (2005)
- I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006)
- School for Scoundrels (2006)
- Fired! (2007) (documentary)
- Certifiably Jonathan (2007) (documentary)
- Futurama: Bender's Big Score |
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