1. Sarah Silverman first rose to prominence for her brief stint as a writer and cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live during its 19th season, between 1993 and 1994.
55 Facts About Sarah Silverman
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Sarah Silverman then starred in and produced The Sarah Silverman Program, which ran from 2007 to 2010 on Comedy Central.
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Sarah Silverman voiced Vanellope von Schweetz in Wreck-It Ralph, and Ralph Breaks the Internet.
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Sarah Silverman released an autobiography The Bedwetter in 2010 which she adapted into an off-Broadway musical in 2022.
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Sarah Silverman hosted the Hulu late-night talk show I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman from 2017 until late 2018.
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Sarah Kate Silverman was born in Concord, New Hampshire on December 1,1970 to Beth Ann and Donald Silverman.
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Sarah Silverman lived in both Manchester, New Hampshire and Bedford, New Hampshire as a child, attending McKelvie Middle School in the latter town.
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Sarah Silverman's mother had been George McGovern's personal campaign photographer and founded the theater company New Thalian Players, while Donald trained as a social worker and ran a clothing store, Crazy Sophie's Outlet.
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Sarah Silverman's sisters are Reform rabbi Susan Silverman, writer Jodyne Speyer, and actress Laura Silverman; her brother Jeffrey Michael died when he was three months old.
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Sarah Silverman is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent and considers herself nonreligious.
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Sarah Silverman's ancestors were from Poland and Russia, and she has stated her maternal grandmother escaped the Holocaust.
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Sarah Silverman was in attendance when women lit menorahs at the Western Wall for the first time, in December 2014.
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The first time Sarah Silverman performed stand-up comedy was in Boston at age 17.
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Sarah Silverman has cited her SNL stint as a key reason why she has been so tough in her career, and later expressed gratitude that her time on the program was short as it did not wind up defining her.
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Sarah Silverman parodied the situation when she appeared on The Larry Sanders Show episode "The New Writer", playing Sanders' new staff writer, whose jokes are not used because of the chauvinism and bias of the male chief comedy writer, who favors the jokes of his male co-writers.
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Sarah Silverman appeared in three episodes of Larry Sanders during its final two seasons.
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Sarah Silverman made her network stand-up comedy debut on the Late Show with David Letterman on July 3,1997.
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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, Funny People and Rent, playing a mixture of comic and serious roles.
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In 2005, Silverman released a concert film, Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic, based on her one-woman show of the same name.
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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.
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Sarah Silverman appears at the end of the video for American glam metal band Steel Panther's "Death To All But Metal".
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In 2006, Sarah Silverman placed 50th on Maxim Hot 100 List.
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Sarah Silverman was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her acting on the show.
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Sarah Silverman guest-starred in a second-season episode of the USA cable program Monk as Marci Maven.
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Sarah Silverman returned in the sixth-season premiere and for the 100th episode.
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Sarah Silverman wrote a comic memoir, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, which was published in 2010.
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Sarah Silverman voiced Vanellope von Schweetz, one of the main characters in the 2012 Disney animated film Wreck-It Ralph.
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Sarah Silverman reprised the role in the 2018 sequel Ralph Breaks the Internet.
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Sarah Silverman is in the creative team that writes and produces the content for the YouTube comedy channel called Jash.
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Sarah Silverman wrote the book and lyrics to the musical.
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Sarah Silverman received Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for her work.
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In 2001, Sarah Silverman used the racial slur "chink" in an ironic fashion in the context of a joke during a TV interview with Conan O'Brien.
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Later that year, Sarah Silverman was criticized for mocking Britney Spears' "slutty clothes" and calling her two sons "adorable mistakes" at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Sarah Silverman's monologue garnered renewed criticism in 2021 shortly after the release of the documentary Framing Britney Spears, in the wake of which Silverman expressed regret over her remarks and claimed that she had not seen Spears' performance before taking the stage.
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In 2023, during the Gaza war, Sarah Silverman was criticized for sharing an Instagram post on her story that supported Israel's restriction of food, water and electricity to Gaza.
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Sarah Silverman later took the post down, claiming she had not read it in full before posting.
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Sarah Silverman is open about her lifelong battle with clinical depression, which at one point led to her developing an addiction to Xanax.
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Sarah Silverman credited her subsequent emotional health to taking the prescription drug Zoloft.
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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.
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Sarah Silverman's autobiography, published in April 2010, titled The Bedwetter, explores the subject of bedwetting as well as other personal stories from her life.
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Sarah Silverman stated she did not want to get married until same-sex couples were able to.
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Sarah Silverman stated that she does not want to have biological children because "there's just millions of kids that have no parents" in the world and to avoid the risk that they might inherit her depression.
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In 2017, Sarah Silverman said that she has prioritized her artistic career, constantly on tour, instead of motherhood.
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In July 2016, Sarah Silverman spent a week in the intensive care unit at Cedars Sinai Hospital with epiglottitis.
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In 2022, Sarah Silverman revealed on her own podcast that she has misophonia, having first noticed it when she was a teenager.
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Sarah Silverman said if it doesn't burn a hole through my skin, it will protect me.
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Sarah Silverman dated Family Guys Executive Producer Alec Sulkin for a brief while in 2010.
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At the Emmy Awards in August 2014, Sarah Silverman acknowledged she and Welsh actor Michael Sheen were in a relationship.
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Sarah Silverman said in February 2018 that the two had broken up over the holidays.
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In 2015, Sarah Silverman 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 served as the head of the G7 in Germany and the African Union in Ethiopia, respectively, which would start to set the priorities in development funding in advance of a main UN summit in September 2015 that would establish new development goals for a generation.
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Sarah Silverman initially supported Sanders, but following the Democratic nomination later spoke in support of Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
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Sarah Silverman supports social justice programs to find work opportunities for non-violent offenders and was a primary investor in Lowell Herb Co, aiming to end cannabis prohibition in the United States.
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Sarah Silverman again endorsed Bernie Sanders and campaigned for him for the 2020 US presidential election.
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In October 2023, Sarah Silverman posted several social media posts and stories in support of Israel during the Gaza war.
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Sarah Silverman left the Democratic Socialists of America after being a member for several years, citing their published response to the initial Hamas attacks and lack of support for Israel.