Sarah Silverman
Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist
NBC News
4.5 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Willie Geist. |
| 0:04.0 | Thanks for clicking on another edition of the Sunday Sitdown podcast on a Labor Day |
| 0:08.5 | weekend. |
| 0:09.5 | Always appreciate you being with us. |
| 0:10.5 | Hopefully you can take some time this week. |
| 0:12.0 | Listen through the full library, full catalog of interviews and we've got a good one. |
| 0:16.6 | We'll start you off with the always hilarious Sarah Silverman, the always edgy Sarah Silverman. |
| 0:22.0 | I don't know if we believe these. |
| 0:23.7 | Do we believe the podcast if we do. |
| 0:25.7 | There are going to be some bleeps in this one. |
| 0:27.0 | Sarah and I got together at the fabled comedy seller here in New York City down in the |
| 0:31.2 | West Village to talk about her rise from those dark basement comedy clubs to being one of |
| 0:37.0 | the biggest comedians in show business. |
| 0:39.1 | We talk about growing up in New Hampshire. |
| 0:41.6 | How she found her voice as a comedian with three older sisters. |
| 0:45.2 | She watched Steve Martin on SNL growing up and eventually landed a job on that show. |
| 0:50.2 | It didn't last long. |
| 0:51.9 | She knew she though she wanted to get into comedy when she watched Saturday at Live. |
| 0:55.7 | She also talks about her chronic bed wedding problem. |
| 0:58.9 | Actually, her memoir is called The Bed Wetter. |
| 1:01.9 | Sounds maybe like a bit of comedy on the surface. |
| 1:05.3 | But when you peel back the layers and she talks about this, she says it's actually what gave her her courage. |
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