Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm Sam by comedian and actor Sarah Silverman.

Her career began back in 1993 when she was hired at just 22 years old as a writer and performer on SNL.

Although she was not long for 30 Rockefeller, Silverman found her way out west,

where she quickly made a name for herself as a provocative stand-up in Los Angeles.

In between bit roles on programs like Seinfeld, the Larry Sanders Show, or Mr. Show with Bob and David, Silverman continued working on her

craft.

Then in 2006, she released her debut special, Jesus is Magic, which in retrospect was kind of a precursor to the

Sarah Silverman program on Comedy Central.

That ran from 2007 to 2010.

Over the last decade, Silverman has continued to make really interesting work.

She's been the star of indie films like Take This Waltz and I Smile Back.

She's written a memoir recently adapted into an off-Broadway musical entitled The Bedwetter.

And she's released four comedy albums, including her latest for HBO, Sarah Silverman, Someone You Love.

That special debuted back in May.

If you haven't checked it out yet, it is worth watching.

It's currently available to stream on Max. As you're about to hear, there are lots of reasons why I wanted to sit with Sarah, especially in this moment. Beyond the Special, she has this new podcast called the

Sarah Silverman Podcast. Now a whole lot of comedians and actors have podcasts these days.

But what Sarah does on her show is actually really unique.

It's mostly an old school call-in show where folks from around the world send in a voicemail and sometimes

ask for advice, sometimes just offer feedback, and no matter the episode what you find again and again on this show

is Sarah connecting to people and offering them a space to be idiosyncratic, funny, flawed, deeply human, and all the things that I think she's really interested in doing in 2023 in these increasingly

fractured anxiety-ridden times. So if you haven't checked out the Sarah

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