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This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross. I'm happy to say that comic writer and actor Sarah Silverman is back for a return visit. Her stand-up comedy is always original, brave, and funny.

Whether it's talking about sex, abortion, being Jewish, racism, or just daily life,

she's willing to take risks to make a point and make it funny. She regrets a few jokes she

told in the past and later apologize for them. She has a new, surprising comedy special,

which I'll tell you about in a moment, but first more about Sarah. She was a writer and featured performer

for one season on Saturday Night Live. She played a writer on the Larry Sanders show. From 2007 to

2010, she starred in the series The Sarah Silverman program. From 2017 to 2019, she hosted the Hulu

series, I Love You America, in which she had conversations to help her understand people she didn't necessarily agree with.

She's been in several movies, and she's a regular on the animated series, Bob's Burgers.

She recently roasted her friend Conan O'Brien at the Kennedy Center ceremony, at which he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Her memoir, The Bedwetter, was adapted into an off-Broadway musical.

It was recently reworked, played at the arena stage in Washington, D.C., and she's hoping it will move to Broadway.

Now she has her fifth comedy special. It's called Postmortem.

Toward the beginning of the special, she's talking about sexual fantasies and sex talk,

not surprising territory for her.

And then she quietly makes an abrupt turn to this.

Oh, my dad and my step-mom Janice both died last May, nine apart and oh that one needs work but they really did and

I was really close with both of them and my dad was my best friend and they both gave me so much

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