Sarah Silverman

No I said out of my vagina. I like my vagina but I don’t like, like it.

Yeah, I have an old boyfriend who would call it mouth full of blood laughs. Laughing at the wrong thing like, “Yeah I hate chinks too.” [laughs]

My manager had heard of him. We just met and it was like love at first sight. He’s amazing.

I always wanted it to be an HBO special. It’s one of those things, like doing Letterman that’s a dream. But they didn’t want me. Even when they made a deal with me two years in a row they didn’t want me. So I’m like, “Ah, fuck it. Maybe I can make it into a movie.’’ So I did and probably a month after the movie wrapped HBO asked me to do a special.

No but there are some things I took out before we filmed.

A bit about how Bayer Aspirin did medical experiments on Jews during the Holocaust. How it’s a headache medicine and they would like pick a couple people from the camps and give it to them. They’d have to be like “My headache is better than the hunger” and “Not as bad as how much I miss my family” and “You know what, it’s better than when I was in labor and you sewed up my vagina.” But it was so heavy and much longer than that. Also the punchline was too iffy.
Unless it had a killer ending it was too much of a bummer. So I just cut it.

In some ways nothing I say is true, but it’s true for somebody. I also I feel that I let it all hang out completely on stage but that sometimes I will say the opposite of what I mean just because I think that it’s a funnier way to do a joke. Otherwise it can sound preachy which I’m not into. Preachy stuff is just never funny to me. You might go, “Yeah that’s so true.” But I want laughs so if there’s something that could otherwise seem preachy I just go the opposite way. I play the bad guy. People are like, “You make fun of rape and AIDS.” But I certainly don’t. Those things are horrific but hopefully in those jokes you’re laughing at me.

Well the real me is much prettier [laughs].

I think when you’re a comic you’re just born that way. I didn’t have a master plan. I was just doing standup. But I just started putting a show together and I figured that I had enough material to do it in clubs and then theatres. In terms of the movie, over the past few years I dumped material, I added material. It changed over and over again. It shed its skin.

Of course everything I have done up to this point has informed what I’ve become onstage and off. The alternative scene that I started out in was originally in New York at Rebar then it moved to Luna Lounge. So because the crowds tend to be the same week to week there was more paranoia not to do the same material more than once. Unlike at a mainstream club where you can do the same jokes over and over again. So you end up doing more conceptual stuff and coming up with stuff on the day and it all forced you to write.

Is there anything left? I guess abortion. That’ll be fun to just have to sneak around to do that, just to put the excitement back into abortion.

My sister made that shirt.

I like pee in that it’s refreshing.

Though it is true that sometimes Jimmy [Kimmel] and I will be talking in the bathroom and he’ll start to pee. Then he’ll say “Are you staring at me peeing? What are you looking at? Why are you obsessed with it?” It’s just interesting but I don’t like being peed on or anything.

I have had that experience. Jews are usually the best audiences because they let a lot slide. But I was asked to perform at a temple to raise money for a temple in LA. I’m ethnically Jewish but I’m not religious. I have no religion. I’m almost positive there is no God. But I kept telling them that I don’t have a clean version of my act and it’s very racy. They said “Oh they love that. It’s very progressive.’

I lost them almost immediately.

I don’t remember except that once it starts going bad I go full force. I probably did the Bayer Aspirin one. I did Holocaust jokes. I got nothing except upset groans. I just kept going because there’s that part of me that feels like I should do the time they asked for. When I got off stage one person was clapping. Then I saw that it was my sister.

So many. The one that I remembering being impacted by growing up is Eddie Murphy Delirious. Also Bill Cosby Himself is one that I watched in preparation for this. I loved that special in terms of how subtle it was. It had no tricky camera work, just a camera on him literally just from shoulder length up. Besides that it was just a colored background that very subtly changed with each topic.

No.

Of course. But usually the female part in comedy movies is not the funny part. But I’d love to have the Bill Murray part in Stripes or anything Bill Murray has done.

I really liked the Helena Bonham Carter role in Fight Club. Since at first it was a small movie, I got the script so that I could audition. But it just got bigger and bigger. I never got to go in or anything but I thought it was just wonderful.

Nothing’s holy in terms of what I would touch comedically. I think anything goes as long as it’s funny enough but that’s to my subjective view of. It has to be funnier than it is sad or upsetting. I don’t like being mean so when I talk about a people I’m usually the asshole.

I’m not, but I saw a cut of it. It’s so good.

I’m in Rent. I’m shooting a movie called School for Scoundrels which is Todd Phillips/Scot Armstrong collaboration and my Comedy Central pilot is finished.

I play that same kind of assholey Sarah Silverman. It’s got great absurdity and a song in it.

I need four AA batteries for the TV remote. So I can’t change the channel and it’s on this commercial for kids with leukemia. There’s a wheelchair marathon which I at first think is an anti-leg rally. I peed my pants a little bit and I sing a song about that. Then a song about how I wish the world was a better place stuff.

Don’t get AIDS.

Yes, there are directors that are not wacky that I love. Like P. T. Anderson or Wes Anderson or anyone named Anderson. Does Anderson Cooper direct?

by Daniel Robert Epstein

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