Sarah Silverman is even prettier in person than she is in the movies. Plus the fact that she is hysterically funny and dirty makes her even hotter.
Her latest flick is Jesus is Magic. It mixes her doing her standup act onstage with short films starring her and those same jokes.
Check out of the official site for Jesus is Magic
Daniel Robert Epstein: Hey Sarah, whatcha doing?
Sarah Silverman: I was peeing! [whisper] Out of my vagina.
DRE: Did you say you love your vagina?
SS: No I said out of my vagina. I like my vagina but I dont like, like it.
DRE: [laughs] With the kind of jokes you make did you ever get the wrong kind of fans?
SS: 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]
DRE: [laughs] How did you and [Jesus is Magic director] Liam Lynch hook up?
SS: My manager had heard of him. We just met and it was like love at first sight. Hes amazing.
DRE: Was a show of your standup always going to have to go the independent route?
SS: I always wanted it to be an HBO special. Its one of those things, like doing Letterman thats a dream. But they didnt want me. Even when they made a deal with me two years in a row they didnt want me. So Im 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.
DRE: Was there anything in it that you hesitated to put in there?
SS: No but there are some things I took out before we filmed.
DRE: Like what?
SS: A bit about how Bayer Aspirin did medical experiments on Jews during the Holocaust. How its a headache medicine and they would like pick a couple people from the camps and give it to them. Theyd 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, its 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.
DRE: A journalist friend of mine talked to you at the Toronto Film Festival and was very surprised to find out that nothing you ever said was true, in your act or anywhere. I always thought that that was the point. I dont know if you ever did it on purpose, but your act seemed to be a satire of other comedians acts especially female comedians.
SS: In some ways nothing I say is true, but its 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 its a funnier way to do a joke. Otherwise it can sound preachy which Im not into. Preachy stuff is just never funny to me. You might go, Yeah thats so true. But I want laughs so if theres 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 dont. Those things are horrific but hopefully in those jokes youre laughing at me.
DRE: How do you keep the stage and your own persona separate?
SS: Well the real me is much prettier [laughs].
DRE: When you first started doing your routine did you realize how far you wanted to go?
SS: I think when youre a comic youre just born that way. I didnt 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.
DRE: I hate to use the word alternative but how did hanging with all those comedians in that scene help shape your act?
SS: Of course everything I have done up to this point has informed what Ive 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.
DRE: What rights are you most looking forward to losing if the new Supreme Court nominee takes his seat?
SS: Is there anything left? I guess abortion. Thatll be fun to just have to sneak around to do that, just to put the excitement back into abortion.
DRE: On SuicideGirls I noticed a picture of you wearing a shirt that says I like pee.
SS: My sister made that shirt.
DRE: So do you like pee?
SS: I like pee in that its refreshing.
Though it is true that sometimes Jimmy [Kimmel] and I will be talking in the bathroom and hell start to pee. Then hell say Are you staring at me peeing? What are you looking at? Why are you obsessed with it? Its just interesting but I dont like being peed on or anything.
DRE: Have you ever been called to perform at a Jewish event with them knowing you are Jewish but not knowing the exact content of your act?
SS: 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. Im ethnically Jewish but Im not religious. I have no religion. Im almost positive there is no God. But I kept telling them that I dont have a clean version of my act and its very racy. They said Oh they love that. Its very progressive.
DRE: What happened?
SS: I lost them almost immediately.
DRE: [laughs] Do you remember what joke it was?
SS: I dont 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 theres 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.
DRE: Whats the best your standup special youve seen?
SS: 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.
DRE: Have you written any screenplays for yourself?
SS: No.
DRE: Do you want leads in movies?
SS: Of course. But usually the female part in comedy movies is not the funny part. But Id love to have the Bill Murray part in Stripes or anything Bill Murray has done.
DRE: Are there any roles you really wanted over the years that you didnt get?
SS: 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.
DRE: Is there anything that shouldnt be made into a joke?
SS: Nothings holy in terms of what I would touch comedically. I think anything goes as long as its funny enough but thats to my subjective view of. It has to be funnier than it is sad or upsetting. I dont like being mean so when I talk about a people Im usually the asshole.
DRE: Are you in Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny?
SS: Im not, but I saw a cut of it. Its so good.
DRE: Whats coming up after Jesus is Magic?
SS: Im in Rent. Im shooting a movie called School for Scoundrels which is Todd Phillips/Scot Armstrong collaboration and my Comedy Central pilot is finished.
DRE: What is the Comedy Central series?
SS: I play that same kind of assholey Sarah Silverman. Its got great absurdity and a song in it.
DRE: Is there a plot?
SS: I need four AA batteries for the TV remote. So I cant change the channel and its on this commercial for kids with leukemia. Theres 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.
DRE: Is there any advice youd give children?
SS: Dont get AIDS.
DRE: What directors would you like to work with?
SS: 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
SG Username: AndersWolleck
Her latest flick is Jesus is Magic. It mixes her doing her standup act onstage with short films starring her and those same jokes.
Check out of the official site for Jesus is Magic
Daniel Robert Epstein: Hey Sarah, whatcha doing?
Sarah Silverman: I was peeing! [whisper] Out of my vagina.
DRE: Did you say you love your vagina?
SS: No I said out of my vagina. I like my vagina but I dont like, like it.
DRE: [laughs] With the kind of jokes you make did you ever get the wrong kind of fans?
SS: 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]
DRE: [laughs] How did you and [Jesus is Magic director] Liam Lynch hook up?
SS: My manager had heard of him. We just met and it was like love at first sight. Hes amazing.
DRE: Was a show of your standup always going to have to go the independent route?
SS: I always wanted it to be an HBO special. Its one of those things, like doing Letterman thats a dream. But they didnt want me. Even when they made a deal with me two years in a row they didnt want me. So Im 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.
DRE: Was there anything in it that you hesitated to put in there?
SS: No but there are some things I took out before we filmed.
DRE: Like what?
SS: A bit about how Bayer Aspirin did medical experiments on Jews during the Holocaust. How its a headache medicine and they would like pick a couple people from the camps and give it to them. Theyd 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, its 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.
DRE: A journalist friend of mine talked to you at the Toronto Film Festival and was very surprised to find out that nothing you ever said was true, in your act or anywhere. I always thought that that was the point. I dont know if you ever did it on purpose, but your act seemed to be a satire of other comedians acts especially female comedians.
SS: In some ways nothing I say is true, but its 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 its a funnier way to do a joke. Otherwise it can sound preachy which Im not into. Preachy stuff is just never funny to me. You might go, Yeah thats so true. But I want laughs so if theres 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 dont. Those things are horrific but hopefully in those jokes youre laughing at me.
DRE: How do you keep the stage and your own persona separate?
SS: Well the real me is much prettier [laughs].
DRE: When you first started doing your routine did you realize how far you wanted to go?
SS: I think when youre a comic youre just born that way. I didnt 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.
DRE: I hate to use the word alternative but how did hanging with all those comedians in that scene help shape your act?
SS: Of course everything I have done up to this point has informed what Ive 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.
DRE: What rights are you most looking forward to losing if the new Supreme Court nominee takes his seat?
SS: Is there anything left? I guess abortion. Thatll be fun to just have to sneak around to do that, just to put the excitement back into abortion.
DRE: On SuicideGirls I noticed a picture of you wearing a shirt that says I like pee.
SS: My sister made that shirt.
DRE: So do you like pee?
SS: I like pee in that its refreshing.
Though it is true that sometimes Jimmy [Kimmel] and I will be talking in the bathroom and hell start to pee. Then hell say Are you staring at me peeing? What are you looking at? Why are you obsessed with it? Its just interesting but I dont like being peed on or anything.
DRE: Have you ever been called to perform at a Jewish event with them knowing you are Jewish but not knowing the exact content of your act?
SS: 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. Im ethnically Jewish but Im not religious. I have no religion. Im almost positive there is no God. But I kept telling them that I dont have a clean version of my act and its very racy. They said Oh they love that. Its very progressive.
DRE: What happened?
SS: I lost them almost immediately.
DRE: [laughs] Do you remember what joke it was?
SS: I dont 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 theres 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.
DRE: Whats the best your standup special youve seen?
SS: 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.
DRE: Have you written any screenplays for yourself?
SS: No.
DRE: Do you want leads in movies?
SS: Of course. But usually the female part in comedy movies is not the funny part. But Id love to have the Bill Murray part in Stripes or anything Bill Murray has done.
DRE: Are there any roles you really wanted over the years that you didnt get?
SS: 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.
DRE: Is there anything that shouldnt be made into a joke?
SS: Nothings holy in terms of what I would touch comedically. I think anything goes as long as its funny enough but thats to my subjective view of. It has to be funnier than it is sad or upsetting. I dont like being mean so when I talk about a people Im usually the asshole.
DRE: Are you in Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny?
SS: Im not, but I saw a cut of it. Its so good.
DRE: Whats coming up after Jesus is Magic?
SS: Im in Rent. Im shooting a movie called School for Scoundrels which is Todd Phillips/Scot Armstrong collaboration and my Comedy Central pilot is finished.
DRE: What is the Comedy Central series?
SS: I play that same kind of assholey Sarah Silverman. Its got great absurdity and a song in it.
DRE: Is there a plot?
SS: I need four AA batteries for the TV remote. So I cant change the channel and its on this commercial for kids with leukemia. Theres 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.
DRE: Is there any advice youd give children?
SS: Dont get AIDS.
DRE: What directors would you like to work with?
SS: 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
SG Username: AndersWolleck
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Roxymonoxcide said:
where is the picture of her in the "I love pee" shirt?
Yeah, I'd like to see that