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Q&A // SARAH SILVERMAN
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Sarah Silverman may be best known for a music video about cheating on her then boyfriend, Jimmy Kimmel, with a famous celebrity, Matt Damon, but don't let that fool you. Since her days of working as a writer for Saturday Night Live, Sarah has paid her dues in the entertainment industry. She just started a new season of her satirical show, The Sarah Silverman Program, on Comedy Central and released Season 2, Part 2 on DVD earlier this month.
Jayplay Do any of your story ideas come from real life?
Sarah Silverman: There's a couple of episodes where I get obsessed with my neck, and that's definitely from truth. This is my take on the neck: Why isn't there bone there? There's so much important stuff in your throat. Why isn't it protected by some sort of extended rib cage or bone? It freaks me out.
J.P. Is there anything you won't talk about on the show?
SS The one thing I do tend to say is I don't like fat jokes about women unless it's crazy funny. It usually just bums me out when people make fat jokes about women. We live in a country where fat men still deserve love, and fat women, it's like they don't deserve love and that's scary and upsetting to me.
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Is the Sarah you play on the show the real-life you?
I hope not, because she's an asshole. I always think of her as an arrogant, ignorant person, which is an awful combination, but fun to watch. The thing about the Sarah I play on the show is that she's always looking for an identity to put on. I think the real way to go about it in life is to discover who you are from the inside out. She decides who she wants to be from the outside in. I think that exists in people looking for an identity without looking inside themselves.
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What are you trying to accomplish this season?
SS. I think our goal is to be aggressively stupid. You'll see a definite amount of gross this season. I think it's the funniest and best season in terms of quality, character and story. We've definitely topped ourselves this year. We're hoping people will tune in.
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Would people be offended by your humor?
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We're not looking to offend anybody, but we're looking to make ourselves laugh. It doesn't make sense in comedy to try to not offend anybody, because you never know what's going to offend people. We don't censor oursels and Comedy Central's pretty cool about not censoring us. Even when they tell us we have to cut something or that we can't say something, we fight it and usually, we win.
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Do you ever feel pressure to constantly be funny?
I guess sometimes if I'm performing or if I'm with people I don't know I will sometimes go into host mode where I want to make sure everybody's having a good time and is entertained. That's probably an instinct in me that has been the reason why I became a comic. It's that need to make sure everybody's laughing or having a good time. Most of my friends are comics or writers and we do just sit around doing bits and laughing, but we can be serious too.
Do people ever say, "Hey, you're that! I'm Fucking Matt Damon' chick, right?"
It's not like I'm complaining about it. It is amazing how many people think they're the first ones to say, "Hey, are you still fucking Matt Damon?" And I have to be like "Ha
ha, yeah. No." It's just like "Really? You think you're the first one to come up with that?" That's amazing to me. At the same time, I'd probably be the one saying that too if I wasn't me. I take it with a grain of salt and I overall appreciate it.
// MARY HENDERSON
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Uncensored: Comedian Sarah Silverman stars in her own show airing on Comedy Central