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Sarah Silverman was a writer and occasional performer for 18 weeks on Saturday Night Live. Learn other 49 things about Silverman.
1. Sarah Kate Silverman is an American stand-up comedian, writer, producer, actress, voice actress and singer.
2. Sarah Silverman was a writer and occasional performer for 18 weeks on Saturday Night Live and starred in and produced The Sarah Silverman Program, which ran from 2007 to 2010 on Comedy Central, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
3. Sarah Silverman released an autobiography The Bedwetter in 2010.
4. Sarah Silverman has also appeared in other television programs, such as Mr Show and V.I.P., and starred in films, including Who's the Caboose? (1997), School of Rock (2003), Wreck-It Ralph (2012) and A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014).
5. Sarah Silverman was born in Bedford, New Hampshire to Beth Ann and Donald Silverman.
6. Sarah Silverman was raised in Manchester, New Hampshire.
7. Beth had been George McGovern's personal campaign photographer and would found the theater company New Thalian Players, while Donald had training as a social worker and also ran the clothing store Crazy Sophie's Outlet.
8. Silverman's parents divorced and remarried.
9. Sarah Silverman is the youngest of five siblings.
10. Her sisters are Rabbi Susan Silverman, screenwriter Jodyne Silverman, and actress Laura Silverman; her brother Jeffrey Michael died when he was 3 months old.
11. Sarah Silverman was born to a Jewish family, yet is secular and not religious.
12. Sarah Silverman was in attendance when women lit menorahs at the Western Wall for the first time in December 2014.
13. The first time Silverman performed stand-up comedy was in Boston at age 17, she described her performance as "awful".
14. After graduating from The Derryfield School in Manchester, she attended but did not graduate from New York University and performed standup comedy in Greenwich Village.
15. After beginning her stand-up comedy in 1992, Silverman was part of the 1993-94 season of Saturday Night Live (SNL) for 18 weeks as a writer and featured player.
16. Sarah Silverman was fired after one season where only one of the sketches she wrote survived to dress rehearsal and none aired, although she did appear on the show as a cast member in skits usually in smaller supporting roles.
17. Sarah Silverman has stated that she was not ready for SNL when she got the job.
18. Sarah Silverman said that when she was fired it hurt her confidence for 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.
19. Later, she was grateful that her SNL time was short because it didn't end up defining her.
20. Sarah Silverman was a featured performer on the HBO sketch comedy show Mr. Show (1995-97) and played the leading role in the 1997 independent film Who's the Caboose?, involving a pair of New York comedians (Silverman and director Sam Seder) going to Los Angeles during pilot season to try to get a part in a television series; the film features numerous young stand-up comedians in supporting roles but never received a widespread theatrical release.
21. Sarah Silverman and Seder later made a six-episode television series sequel entitled Pilot Season in which Silverman stars as the same character and Seder again directed.
22. Sarah Silverman also made TV program guest appearances, including on Star Trek: Voyager in the two-part-time travel episode "Future's End" (1996); Seinfeld in the episode "The Money" (1997); V.I.P. in the episode "481⁄2 Hours" (2002); Greg the Bunny as a series regular (2002); and on the puppet television comedy Crank Yankers as the voice of Hadassah Guberman (2003, 2007).
23. Sarah Silverman made her network standup comedy debut on the Late Show with David Letterman in July 2007.
24. Sarah Silverman had small parts in the films 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.
25. Sarah Silverman played a therapist in a skit for a bonus DVD of the album Lullabies to Paralyze by the band Queens of the Stone Age.
26. Sarah Silverman also appears at the end of the video for American glam metal band Steel Panther's "Death To All But Metal."
27. On Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Silverman parodied sketches from Chappelle's Show, replaying Dave Chappelle's characterizations of Rick James and "Tyrone" as well as a Donnell Rawlings character based on the miniseries Roots.
28. In 2006, Silverman placed 50th on Maxim Hot 100 List. In 2007, she placed 29th and appeared on the cover.
29. Her television sitcom The Sarah Silverman Program debuted on Comedy Central in February 2007, the series had 1.81 million viewers and portrays the day-to-day adventures of fictionalized versions of Silverman, her sister Laura, and their friends.
30. Sarah Silverman was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her acting on the show.
31. At the awards ceremony, she wore a fake mustache.
32. Comedy Central canceled The Sarah Silverman Program after three seasons.
33. In June 2007, she hosted the MTV Movie Awards.
34. In September 2007 she appeared at the MTV Video Music Awards.
35. Sarah Silverman guest-starred in a second-season episode of the USA cable program Monk as Marci Maven.
36. According to the audio commentary on the Clerks II DVD, director Kevin Smith offered her the role that eventually went to Rosario Dawson, but she turned it down out of fear of being typecast in "girlfriend roles".
37. However, she told Smith the script was "really funny" and mentioned that if the role of Randal Graves was being offered to her she "would do it in a heartbeat."
38. She appeared in Strange Powers, the 2009 documentary by Kerthy Fix and Gail O'Hara about cult songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields.
39. Silverman wrote a comic memoir, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, which was published in 2010.
40. Sarah Silverman played Geraldine alongside Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen in Take This Waltz, written and directed by Sarah Polley. The film was well received when it premiered in Toronto in 2011 and was picked up by Magnolia for U.S. distribution in summer 2012.
41. Sarah Silverman also voiced Vanellope von Schweetz, one of the main characters in the 2012 Disney animated film, Wreck-It Ralph.
42. She is in the creative team that writes and produces the content for the YouTube comedy channel called JASH.
43. Sarah Silverman became a vegetarian at the age of ten.
44. Sarah Silverman has also said that she does not drink alcohol because it nauseates her.
45. Sarah Silverman is open about her lifelong battle with clinical depression, which at one point led to her developing an addiction to Xanax.
46. Sarah Silverman struggled with bedwetting from the time she was young until well into her teens and stated in a 2007 interview that she had wet the bed recently.
47. Silverman's biological sister Laura played her sister on The Sarah Silverman Program.
48. An older sister, Susan, is a rabbi who lives in Jerusalem with her husband, Yosef Abramowitz, the co-founder and president of Arava Power Company, and their five children.
49. Sarah Silverman considers herself ethnically Jewish, which she has frequently mined for material, but says she is agnostic and does not follow the religion, claiming, "I have no religion. But culturally I can't escape it; I'm very Jewish."
50. In 2015 she signed an open letter which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures for; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in development funding before a main UN summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation.
Source: Wikipedia.org
