Play It Again: Sarah Silverman (‘PostMortem’)

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

To commemorate the release of her new, deeply personal Netflix special ‘PostMortem,’ we revisit our conversation with Sarah Silverman.

At the top, we reflect on loss (7:16), her HBO special Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love (12:35), and coming of age in the ‘80s (18:42). Then, Silverman talks about her early comedic influences (25:35), her path from SNL to Los Angeles (32:30), and the mentorship of Garry Shandling (35:10).

On the back-half, we walk through the evolution of her provocative work, from The Sarah Silverman Program (38:42) to I Love You, America (46:52), the connective tissue of The Sarah Silverman Podcast (49:12), and the legacy of her beloved, late father (51:57).

Original air date: June 18, 2023.

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:02.0	This is Talk Easy. I'm Sam Forgoso.
0:24.8	Welcome to the show.
0:42.5	Today, one of my favorite working comedians, Sarah Silverman.
0:49.6	Her career began back in 1993, when she joined S&L as both a writer and a performer.
0:59.5	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 comic.
1:07.9	Between scene-stealing parts on Seinfeld, the Larry Sanders Show, and Mr. Show with Bob and David, Silverman continued to work on her craft.
1:12.2	In 2005, she released her first stand-up special, one of my favorites.
1:17.2	It was called Jesus Is Magic, which would lay the groundwork for what would become the Sarah Silverman program on Comedy Central. Since then, she's continued to go in various different directions.
1:24.1	She starred in acclaimed indie films like Take This Waltz and I Smile Back, penned a memoir called The Bedwetter, which is such a good book if you haven't read it.
1:34.0	She also hosts a Sarah Silverman podcast made by our partners at Lemonada Media, where she talks about personal anecdotes, offers musings on a range of subjects, and then offers great, great advice and also funny advice to a whole host of listener questions.
1:50.3	You can find that show through Lemonada Media, new episodes air every Thursday.
1:55.5	We recorded this conversation originally about two years ago on the dot in the spring of 2023.
2:02.7	It was during a time of unimaginable heartbreak for Silverman.
2:08.3	Her beloved father Donald and her stepmother Janice passed away just nine days apart.
2:14.4	Since then, she's channeled that grief into a remarkable new special called Post-Mortem.
2:20.5	It premiered on Netflix this past week, and it's everything you expect from a Sarah Silverman special,
2:26.6	moving, funny, raunchy, surprisingly joyous in parts, and it touches on everything from
2:33.6	deathbed, binge-watch watching, to funeral planning,
2:37.3	both of which we talk about in this conversation. And so today, I wanted to replay this episode
2:43.9	from 2023, in which Silverman was more than generous with her time and her story. I've known Sarah for a long, long time,
2:53.5	and this episode is somehow better and more moving than I ever thought or imagined it could be.
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