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Every Thursday night Sarah Silverman and her gang of vagrants take over Comedy Central and provide a crude, off kilter, and hilarious program at 10:30 p.m.
“We try not to do anything too mean,” Silverman said. “But I try not to do any fat girl jokes. It’s a double standard in society where a fat men deserves love, but fat women don’t…unless it’s crazy funny.”
To some people, Silverman is just Jimmy Kimmel’s ex-girlfriend, or the girl who is F*%K*$^ Matt Damon.
But she has a longer, richer history in show business than some people care to acknowledge or remember. She started as a stand-up comic, then got a coveted position as a staff writer on Saturday Night Live for the 1993-1994 season.
That only lasted a year, but since then she has been one of the busiest ladies in show business. With stints on Star Trek Voyager, Seinfeld, Larry Sanders, and the cult favorite Mr. Show with Bob and David.
During her busy TV and Movie career in the '90s and early 2000s, she perfected her stand up routine and released Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic in 2004.
Since then, her comedy and career have really been on fire. With the premiere of her TV show in 2007, The Sarah Silverman Program provides her a smart and irreverent platform for her to express her views and put smiles on all the kids. Silverman said her target audience consists of, as she says, “Crazy 10 year olds who understand the show on one level, then the frat crowd who likes it on another level, and some senior citizens come up to me and say the love the show.”
But with that said, no one is watching it (according to the Nielsen ratings). The new season is on Comedy Central and LOGO now.
Make sure you get a group of friends together to watch Sarah Silverman, Brian Posehn, Steve Agee, Laura Silverman, and Jay McPherson.
