The Sarah Silverman Show Embarks On a Crazy Season
The Sarah Silverman show will be back on the air on Thursday, February 4th at 10:30 on Comedy Central. It’s been off the air for a while but they're back and the very talented ensemble cast has some crazy storylines for the upcoming season.
“Let’s see, I find out I was born with both looks and personality? No, it’s weird to not have anything coming back. I’m imagining you all laughing on mute. What else? My imaginary friend from childhood comes back as an adult and we have a lesby affair. Steve and Brian have a great … this season; their love as well as Jay and Laura; there’s some wedding action, and it’s very funny; there’s a new mayor in town who makes gay sex and brunch illegal. I should just look through the—let’s see, I go on “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
“Let’s see, Andy Samberg plays my imaginary friend this year. Ed Asner is in an episode as a Nazi war criminal. It was really, really—let me tell you something about older actors. Ed Asner is about 80, and Murray, who is on our show, Gershams, is 87, and they’re such pros that when they’re not shooting, they are in their chair sleeping. Just like containing their energy. And we have some really great pictures of elderly Nazi war criminals in set chairs sound asleep.”
While she is very excited about her show she still was thinking about a certain late night host that was sent packing by his former employer.
“Yeah. I mean, I feel pretty confident that he’s going to end up on top somehow, but totally. I just can’t get my head around it. The guy has done so much for NBC and for Late Night, and has made such a success. If you remember, any talk show starts out super slow.,” she said, speaking from experience. “No talk show has ever been a hit from day one, ever. And to switch from 12:30 to 11:30 seems like no big deal, but it is. It’s a whole different animal. Not that I know, but from what I know, from what I see. To have him move his whole family and hundreds, over a hundred, hundreds, maybe, of staff, taking their whole lives and moving to L.A. Getting their kids in schools out here, and then only giving it six months? That’s … crazy. They should never be able to use the words, “The NBC Family.” Ever.
“But, that said; people go, “Well, he got so much money,” and that’s nice that he got money, but he loves that job. Also, he got the money, but the rest of the whole crew doesn’t, and he’s got …. He’s a good guy. I think they all probably feel real displaced, and abandoned. And they have every right to feel that way.
“I can’t help but hope that he lands at FOX or somewhere, anywhere. Wherever he lands, he’ll always have an audience. I just thought that that was a real … move on NBC’s part. And then on top of it, of course the last week or two of the show was just amazing, you know?”
Sarah might be a comedian but she does have boundaries and there is a line that she won’t cross.
“Well, I don’t like to make fun of people, real people, and the only times I’ve done that is if it’s a Roast or stuff like that. You know what I don’t like? When people ask me that, I always think of the same thing, which is I don’t like jokes about fat women. I don’t like fat jokes about women, and it’s just not tit for tat, you know? Like fat women in white America don’t deserve love, and I don’t think that’s anything to make fun of, you know what I mean? It’s a bummer,” she said. “Actually, there’s a quote from “Family Guy,” that’s so brilliant about that, that encapsulates exactly how I feel about it, which is like—oh, I’m not going to say it right, but it’s—you know the father, Peter, and the son—what’s his name, Chris? Chris is like, “Well, we’re fat,” and Peter goes, “Chris, fat guys aren’t fat. Only fat women are fat.” It’s just so true in our society, and it bums me out to make—it never makes me laugh, it just makes me go, “Ugh.””
Sarah‘s show touches on a lot of subjects and its original comedy and that’s what Comedy Central is all about.
Demetri Martin and Sarah Silverman are going to be back to back this Thursday night on Comedy Central, to get the point across they wrote a little song for you!
Click here to check out a music video for their song, “Back to Back”:
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