From W.H.Y.Y. in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend.

Today, comic, writer and actor Sarah Silverman, she's known for breaking taboos in her comedy.

Silverman wrote about the most humiliating aspect of her childhood in her memoir The Bedwater.

Wedding The Bed was especially awful during sleepovers and at sleep-away camp.

Now The Bedwater has been adapted into an off-brought-way musical.

Also, poet Diana Gatch talks about transitioning to life as a woman,

relatively late in life when she was nearly 50.

Her new memoir, This Body I War, is about what it was like coming of age and into adulthood,

in an era when she didn't have the language or knowledge to understand what it meant to be trans.

Later, Marine Cargain recommends some novels and mysteries for early summer reading.

My first guest is comic, actor and writer Sarah Silverman, who's known for breaking taboos,

often to mock sexism, racism, and extremist religion and politics.

She now has second thoughts about some of her earlier comedy,

wondering whether when she was trying to mock racism, she didn't understand her own limited

perspective as a white person. We'll talk about that later. Silverman has broken a big personal

taboo from her childhood. She was a bedwetter. It was a nightly occurrence until about the age of

16. It was especially humiliating during sleepovers with friends, and the summer she spent at

sleep-away camp. She wrote about that in her 2010 memoir titled The Bedwater.

Now that book has been adapted into an off-brought-way musical, she collaborated on it with

songwriter Adam Schlesinger, who co-founded the band Fountains of Wayne, wrote the title song for

the movie That Thing You Do, The Songs for the Romcom, Music and Lyrix, and the TV series Crazy

X Girlfriend, and what may be the best song that ever opened the Tony Awards ceremony, Broadway,

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