I listened to the podcast episode where you discuss the death of your parents, and you included a snippet of a conversation between your father and your friend, the comedian Jeff Ross, recorded during the last stretch. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity. She’s as Sarah Silvermany as it gets, serving up her distinct flavor of mischievous, off-color humor delivered in wry, carefully measured bits.
It will feel instantly familiar to anyone who’s followed her comedy, though. The fifty-two-year-old veteran comic likes to characterize herself as a gig worker-someone who enjoys collecting odd jobs in entertainment-and “Someone You Love” is just her fourth standup special. Silverman’s recent losses came during a period when she was readying her new standup special, “Someone You Love,” which premièred on HBO last Saturday. My dad would always say, ‘It’s part of the deal,’ ” she told me. But, if anyone understood the lifelong seesaw of love and grief, it was Donald Silverman. “My parents just died, so I’m not going to be, like, ‘You know, in the end, it was great!’ ” Silverman admits. In May, Silverman’s stepmother, Janice, died of pancreatic cancer, and, just a few days later, her father-Donald Silverman, a charismatic clothing-store owner who looms large in her work-passed away from kidney-related health issues. “It’s their channel.” Her personal life, though, has recently put this c’est la vie mind-set to the test.
“I have no frustration about it,” Silverman said with a shrug. It was a disappointment, like all stalled projects can be, but it ultimately made its way onto the list of things not worth worrying about. We’d been discussing a pilot she’d shot just before the pandemic that HBO had commissioned but ultimately declined to pursue. “Everything always works out,” Silverman told me calmly last week. Usually, the advice boils down to something like: It’s not as bad as you think. On “The Sarah Silverman Podcast,” she counsels callers on whatever issue might be nagging them that day, whether it’s a failed relationship or attitudes toward French kissing. More recently, she’s also become a fount of Zen-like wisdom.
In the three-plus decades since Silverman began performing onstage, she’s become an icon of standup comedy, an accomplished film and voice actress, a writer of an Off Broadway show, a best-selling author, a sharp political pundit, an honorary late-night-television host, an executive producer, and one of the world’s finest purveyors of potty humor. “WHATEVER UR WORRIED ABOUT DOESN’T MATTER” reads a prominent sign on the wall behind Sarah Silverman’s desk in her Los Angeles office.
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