(drum beating)
- Sarah
Silverman
(tambourine shakes) (drum beating)
Right up.
- Souls.
- Come together.
Blacks and Jews getting it done.
(upbeat music)
Someone is about to come into my trailer that is a
legend, a walking legend.
She's won several Emmy's for her standup comedy
but she flipped the script on 'em a couple of
years ago and did something dramatic
and got nominated for a Screen Actor's Guild Award
for her work in I Smiled Back.
She's absolutely crazy.
She's absolutely fun.
Y'all get ready right now.
Sarah Silverman in the building.
(upbeat music)
- Oh. - Oh.
(screams) - Blame it on the (mumbles).
Yes indeed.
How are you?
It's so great to see you.
- It's great to see you.
- Come, please join us.
You need me to take your backpack?
- No, it's my transitional object.
- What do you mean it's your transitional object?
- What if I need something?
What if I need my thermos?
What if I need lip gloss?
What if I need gum?
- Yes.
- What if I need a Cottonelle wipe?
- (laughs) Listen, every time I see you I light up, right?
- You really do.
- Do I light up?
- Yes.
- Talk about, where did you get the balls from
to tell your jokes?
- I think it was just a lack of knowing better
because like, I had one of those crazy dads
that thought it would be hilarious to teach his
three year old swears
so like, I would be in the middle of the market
and be like, bitch, bastard, damn, shit.
Looking back it makes so much sense
- Right. - Because it shocked grown ups
and then they gave me like this wild approval
despite themselves.
- Right, right, right.
- And it made my arms itch with glee
and you get, I think I became addicted to that,
to that feeling of like surprising people.
- That's hilarious.
You starting out in comedy, there's always a moment
that changes you or a moment that embarrasses you.
Do you have a moment like that?
- Humiliating moments, there are so many
in stand up especially.
- [Jamie] Yeah.
- I mean just, have you ever done standup
and you hear the person in the back who does this?
(whistles like something is falling)
- Oh, that's the worst.
- It's just like your heart (exploding sound).
- Oh, yeah, oh, when you're bombing.
- It's so humiliating.
I bombed so much.
- On my side of town, if you bombing,
they let you know.
They're like, Man, get the fuck outta here with that,
you know what I'm saying.
- Oh, I was on Showtime at the Apollo.
I was on that that twice.
And both times, the first time they threw
like these tokens at me.
I was like pelted. - Get out.
- And they told me I couldn't swear and like
then I'm getting pelted and I'm just like,
fuck all of you.
(laughs)
- I got that too.
They got me.
But they never aired it.
I begged.
I'm gonna say it on air, Sinbad was the host
and I don't know if he did it on purpose
but he said, this next young brother,
coming all the way from Los Angeles,
the west coast.
And he said, the west coast.
And they started booing before I even got out.
So they never showed it but I've gone back
since then and did my thing.
I wanna know this though, how hard is it for a
comedian to tell jokes in today's world?
- First of all, comedy is not ever green.
- Right.
- That's the beauty of comedy.
But also, it goes rotten because the times change.
- It does.
What isn't okay to make jokes about now today?
- I do think that comedy is a real tough place
to like judge or say that's right or that's wrong
because it all depends on how funny it is.
- Talk about the musicals that stuck with you
'cause I know you got that (mumbles).
- I liked Hair.
I was in a production of Hair when I was 17
at our local theater.
I sang Black Boys.
- Why did you sing Black Boys?
- That was the one that was assigned.
- You was assigned to that?
- I was like
♪ Black boys are delicious ♪
♪ Chocolate flavored love ♪
♪ Licorice looks like candy ♪
♪ Keep my cocoa handy ♪
♪ I get such a sweet tooth when ♪
♪ It comes to love ♪
Did you grow up with the Hair song (mumbles)?
- You know what, I mean, in the environment
where I was, there wasn't a lot of musicals.
- But you're so musical.
- I know but it was like I grew up like
church music was my thing.
My grandmother only let us play church music
when I was growing up.
The only musical that I got introduced to
was in college.
They came to me because they needed a tenor.
They wouldn't let me go on the stage
but they would let me sing behind the curtain
because there wasn't any African-Americans in the
production so I would sing in the back
and I would just sing the parts they'd need me.
♪ Tonight ♪
♪ Lady ♪
♪ Tonight ♪
So that was me in the back.
And that's how I learned about musicals.
- That's insane.
- It's a whole long thing.
- Alright, you don't know musicals.
And your experience with them was racist.
- (laughs) No.
- It's interesting that you're doing like
this web series and it's about like
what movies formed you and stuff
because I grew up in New Hampshire,
not a lot of Jews in New Hampshire.
But even New Hampshire needs retail.
And then my best friend, Kerri, who I'm still
very close with, she was like the only
black girl in New Hampshire.
So we were like the Jew and the black person and
we were best friends.
- What movies matter to you?
- I turned her on to Woody Allen movies.
She was like all over Spike Lee.
- (mumbles)
(mumbles)
I get it, I get it.
- So yeah, so like when She's Gotta Have It
came out, we were on it like 'cause there was just
so little of things of our culture in New Hampshire.
- Wow.
Who was your first movie crush?
- John Cusack in Say Anything hurt my heart.
- Why is that?
- 'Cause everybody fell in love with him.
- Is that right?
- Yeah, that was my...
But I mostly am a tv person.
I love television.
- Yeah, yeah.
- And definitely Fonzie was my first.
- Henry Winkler.
- I had my first like sexual dream with Fonzie
but I was a kid so it was just like we were
on a ski lift making out.
- Henry...
You know he was my neighbor?
- What?
- Never really...
- Did you love him?
- I mean the Fonz was the greatest.
And it was a trip because it was hard
not seeing him as the Fonz all the time.
- But then when you see him it's not hard not
seeing him as the Fonz 'cause he's just
like an old Jew.
Not just an old Jew,
and amazing, amazing, special, beautiful older Jew.
- You started out with comedy.
And then you transition to a incredible movie
where you were nominated for a Screen Actor's Guild Award.
- Oh yeah, that was the year before last.
- Now here's the thing,
were you ever told you wouldn't be able to do that?
- I wanted to be an ingenue.
- [Jamie] Really?
- And I learned pretty early that was not an
option for me.
I can be like the girlfriend before the guy
realizes what love really can be
or the sassy roommate that is the exposition
for the main girl like,
But you're a lawyer and he loves you you know like...
And so, I went in pretty far into my career
to audition for this part and it was another
like bitchy two dimensional person but there was
another character in it that I just was like this
hippie, like loving, like granola girl
and like to me, that's like who I am more
and I said, can I read for this?
And it's a very famous director,
was like you'll never be cast as someone
who deserves love.
And I remember just like, I was like stone-like
but like tears just like fell out of my eye holes
and I was just like.
- Because that breaks you sometimes, right?
Because I had a director tell me,
I went in to read for a movie
and I was (mumbles).
He says, you're no good.
He says, you're too loud.
You're a television person.
And as I'm walking out--
- Well 'cause you have an epic transition
from tv to movie.
It's like never been done before.
- But check this out, here's the thing.
I'm walking out and he goes,
Jamie Foxx, slave to television.
Right?
And I was just like what does that even mean?
I eventually got a chance to come back and read for him
and I did get the part but he broke it,
you know, he broke it down to me.
And I told him I said man, that fucked me up.
I wanted to come in here and whoop your ass
but it did something to me to make me wanna
go get it even more.
- Yeah.
- [Jamie] Is that what happened in your situation?
- For sure.
- Right.
I gotta ask you about your show, I Love America.
Talk about that show because it's sort of like
you bringing, you're traveling all around
and getting the perspective of everybody in America.
- Yeah.
It's called I Love You, America and I travel
the country.
I had family dinner with a family in Chalmette, Louisiana
who all voted for Trump and never met a Jew.
- Ooh, how's that work?
- I loved them.
- [Jamie] Right, right.
- But they said they had to Google Jew.
She goes, We Googled Jew and guess what?
Adam Levine is one.
And I was like, he is.
- Were they thrown by that?
- It was very sweet.
- Can I be honest with you?
- Yeah.
- I never hear the word Jew until I was out of school,
till I was out of high school.
- Yeah.
- I know it's weird.
I grew up in Texas and we studied Texas history
so if it didn't happen in Texas...
- Right.
- It didn't happen so when I heard the word Jew
I thought it was like a color.
I was like wow, that's interesting.
Is that like blue?
She has to go right now but it's Jamie Foxx,
Off Script in my trailer.
Sarah Silverman.
She has a clip to show us.
- I don't know what it is but it's something
and you'll love it.
- Thank you.
Here we go.
Check it out.
(jovial, upbeat music)
- Hey Siri, how many Jews are in the world?
- [Siri] Too
many.
- God damn it.
♪ You believe in life ♪
♪ And liberty ♪
♪ You believe in a God that you can't see ♪
♪ You believe in dumb luck and not giving zero fucks ♪
♪ So why don't y'all believe me ♪
♪ I got straight pubes ♪
- [Salesman] Why the fuck you even come here?
- Because I'm trying to show that people with
two different ideologies can get along, you fuck.
What a fun show.
Goodnight, America.
I lerve you.
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