1. Sarah Sherman became a featured player on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live starting with its 47th season in October 2021, and was promoted to repertory status in October 2023.
22 Facts About Sarah Sherman
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Sarah Sherman was born and raised in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, in a Jewish family.
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Sarah Sherman attended Great Neck South High School, where she was on the improv team and ran track, graduating in 2011; then attended Northwestern University and graduated in 2015 with a degree in theater.
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Sarah Sherman developed an interest in stand-up comedy after she did not make the improv team at Northwestern.
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Sarah Sherman was getting booked as a comedian alongside noise musicians as she had friends that ran a record label.
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Sarah Sherman was a writer for The Eric Andre Show, Three Busy Debras, and Magic for Humans.
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Sarah Sherman was asked to audition for the long-running NBC sketch-comedy show Saturday Night Live after doing a stand-up set at the Just for Laughs festival.
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Sarah Sherman found a limited audience in her first season because of COVID-19 restrictions, and the end of her second season was cut short by the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike.
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The third was "My Best Friend's House," in which Sarah Sherman appears as a plastic-wrapped severed head stored in the refrigerator by her best friend's dad, who turns out to be a savage serial killer.
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Sarah Sherman has been praised by critics for adapting her unusual and surreal comedy style to SNL without losing its impact.
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Where actors like Robinson often felt they had to tone down their material for SNL, Sarah Sherman finds inventive alternative ways to channel her deranged sensibilities into the show.
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Sarah Sherman has introduced new materials to the costumes and props departments.
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Sarah Sherman enjoys wearing weird outfits, raiding the show's 50 years' worth of costumes and devising new ones.
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Sarah Sherman once asked Louie Zakarian, the show's multiple-Emmy-Award-winning special-effects makeup chief, to devise a fake seagull that could be impaled in her torso while moving its legs.
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In 2022, for her sketch "Eyes," Sarah Sherman delivered her performance wearing googly eyes which, her character explains, were "supposed to be refrigerated" but were left in the character's pockets.
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Sarah Sherman can cut to it from the germ of an idea.
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Sarah Sherman was credited as a screenwriter for the reality comedy film sequel Jackass Forever.
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Sarah Sherman co-starred in the Adam Sandler comedy film You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah and was cast as a character in downloadable content for the video game High on Life.
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Sarah Sherman voice acted as "Coriander Cadaverish" in the animated film Nimona and in a cameo for season 2 of Severance.
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Since October 2023, Sarah Sherman has hosted the NTS Radio show Freakradio Emergency Hotline.
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Sarah Sherman supported Bernie Sanders in the 2020 United States presidential election.
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Sarah Sherman is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.