Well, it was slated to start at 8, but at 8:50 pm ET, the countdown clock on the livestream says the “Big Live Comedy Show” won’t be starting for another 10 minutes. The livestream has been on for an hour now– all showing “The Show Before the Show.”  Presumably, that, as well as what follows, will be archived for those of you who want to go back and watch it later.  But aside from this being a public service announcement for fans trying to watch the much ballyhooed event, we’re also alerting fans that Sarah was interviewed during “The Show Before the Show.”  CLICK HERE to watch her interview.

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Jeff Klima at NewMediaRockStars.com recently interviewed Sarah’s significant other, Kyle Dunnigan (whom the fortunate among us got to see open for Sarah during her recent tour). For the whole interview (7m:39s), click here. Or click the pic to go straight to where he talks (unfortunately not in much detail, since Klima didn’t probe) about Sarah.

Kyle answers, “Who has the filthier mind, you or Sarah Silverman?” Kyle answers, “Do you get angry ex-boyfriend calls from Jimmy Kimmel?” Kyle says he’s more of a “camera-man” when he goes out with Sarah. And guess how Kyle answers, “Who’s currently the funniest person alive?”

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by Danny Hooley — Correspondent

Sarah Silverman is a realist when it comes to her prospects for achieving universal appeal.

To paraphrase in three words: Ain’t gonna happen.

Her startling takes on risky subjects such as racism, abortion and rape (to name a few), delivered with wide-eyed, smiley, faked un-self-awareness, have earned her near-equal amounts of antipathy and adulation. Either you get her, or you really don’t get her.

And that’s OK.

“The way I look at it is, I’m not for everybody,” she says. “I don’t necessarily set out to be for everybody.”

For Silverman, who appears at Durham Performing Arts Center Wednesday, fun is the No. 1 priority. If her startling satire and silliness appeal to you – that’s great. If not – fine. She’s having fun.

“It doesn’t pain me to not have a wider reach,” she insists. “I’m not money-driven. So I’m very, very free in what I’m able to do.” (more…)

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     As part of the South Beach Comedy Festival, taking place on South Beach now through April 21, the smart, silly, sassy, and somewhat controversial Sarah Silverman will take the stage at the Fillmore Miami Beach on the highly appropriate date, 4/20. She may do some partying while she’s in the 305 (you know, smoke a little grass), and she will definitely hang out with other comedians during her stay. But when the show’s over, she’ll be headed to Boca Raton to visit the parentals.

     “I have so many friends who are gonna be there, I can’t wait — though I’m going to Boca right after the show with my parents. Gotta put some time in with the folks,” says Silverman. “My dad says it’s the least I can do since he had to change my diaper when I was a baby and literally wipe shit out of my ass. When will he stop holding that against me?”

Cultist: One of the most memorable stories in your book, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, involves you and Louis CK riding up and down an elevator in your apartment building naked. How much of that is true?

Sarah Silverman: Oh, that was one hundred percent true.

How do you stay so thin? Really.

 Ha! I’m healthy. I love playing basketball and I can’t believe I’m saying this, but have really taken to spin class. I’m a vegetarian, but eat (more…)

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by Ryan Little
Washington Post Going Out Guide
18 April 2013

.      Charming delivery and crass punch lines are Sarah Silverman’s bait and switch. With a youthful smile — the 42-year-old comic looks 25 — and a disarming demeanor, she sweetly executes bathroom humor and social satire alike. Asked whether she’s particularly excited about performing in Washington (she appears at the Warner Theatre on Thursday), she confidently responds, as if doling out a pearl of wisdom, “It’s the capital, you know.”
.      That kind of adorable foolishness is precisely how Silverman lures audiences into otherwise untouchable material. Similar to how Stephen Colbert lampoons misinformed punditry with oblivious gusto, Silverman subverts tactlessness with “gee whiz” naïveté. In her 2005 movie, “Jesus Is Magic,” she casually mentions that she was sexually assaulted by a doctor, but then notes that the experience was “so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.” The humor isn’t in the taboos, but in the nonchalant way Silverman’s onstage persona broaches them.
.      In rare moments of sincerity, Silverman reiterates that she generally believes the opposite of what she says in her stand-up routines. In an interview on the same day the Supreme Court was hearing arguments challenging the federal ban on same-sex marriage, Silverman first made (more…)

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The Scene’s Jack Silverman interviews comedian Sarah Silverman in anticipation of her upcoming set at the Schermerhorn
by Jack Silverman for The Nashville Scene
Published 18 April 2013

Whether it’s rape, the Holocaust, Jesus, race, vaginas, penises or anuses (ani?), comedian Sarah Silverman has yet to meet a sensitive topic she didn’t like — which only makes the announcement on the Schermerhorn Symphony Center website that Silverman’s April 23 performance will be “presented without orchestra” all the more disappointing. Poop jokes with a string section? We’d have killed to see that. Maybe they can at least set up the timpani section for the anal-sex routine. Regardless, it’s a can’t-miss show for comedy fans.

In a recent email interview with the Scene, Silverman discussed Tennessee politics, Holocaust jokes, the hubbub over her TED talk about wanting to adopt a mentally challenged child, and the comedy website JASH:

I’m a Silverman too. Did you ever have an Aunt Myrtle or Uncle Bob in Cleveland, Ohio? If so, I might have to bag this interview to avoid appearance of conflict of interest. Nope, no relation. We are safe to procreate!

Is it harder to be funny in email? Not at ALL – see: Oh …

You did some great pro-Obama videos. What do you think of his performance so far? I’m enjoying some blind faith. He isn’t perfect, but I believe in him. And I believe he is ultimately good. I don’t understand signing a bill that helps GMOs, and I can’t imagine our first lady was cool with that, but there are so many shitty loopholes grandfathered into bills and stuff that I’m sure it’s hard to do the right thing all the time. Right? Fuck, I don’t know.

Is it tougher doing crude humor as a woman? Is there a crude-humor double standard? Firstly, I don’t know the answer to that because I’ve only ever been a woman. That said, I think it’s natural that women are the cruder, more graphic comics right now because women are going through some real-life shit right now (more…)

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Sarah was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday. (She enters at 12m:25s timecode.) In her first segment she talks about power walking in NYC, her Good Wife episode a few seasons back, Game of Thrones, and talking to Aaron Sorkin at a party. In her second segment she plays a funny voicemail left by her father, and she plugs JASH.

Alternate sources:
First 2m:17s (Working Girl, walking NYC)
Good Wife story

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