As Michael MacCambridge wrote in GQ Magazine, "The assumption for years has been that gorgeous women don't need stand-up, don't need to work out their demons with a microphone on the naked stage. But here stands Silverman--all raven hair, swan's neck, intense eyes and slangy, self-possessed physicality--and almost as one, the audience leans forward, raptly attentive . . . A few years after a new breed of candid female rockers revolutionized the vocabulary of pop music, the 28-year-old Silverman stands poised to do the same thing to stand-up comedy."

In 1993, Silverman was hired as a featured writer-performer on Saturday Night Live. But almost immediately she had trouble with the NBC censors. Her first routine was a commentary slot on "Weekend Update" in which she spoke about the twenty-four-hour waiting period some states were requiring prior to an abortion. She said: "Quite frankly, I think it's a good law. I was going to get an abortion the other day. I totally wanted an abortion.... And it turns out I was just thirsty."

She also appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Late Show with David Letterman, Politically Incorrect, The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, Dr. Katz (Laura Silverman, Sarah's sister, plays Dr Katz' receptionist.), and Star Trek Voyager.

Sarah's films include There’s Something About Mary, Bullworth, What Planet Are You From, and The Bachelor.

SILVERMAN: I think that was the original idea, but, no, not really.

COT: What's your favorite pizza?

SILVERMAN: Crispy--with mushrooms and peppers. And candy. And your mother.

COT: Where would you like to see the entertainment business located, instead of Los Angeles and New York?

SILVERMAN: Massachusetts.

COT: What reality TV show would you most like to see?

SILVERMAN: The one about your mother.

COT: What's your next project?

SILVERMAN: The Farrelly brothers' Say It Isn't So, Heartbreakers, and the Ivan Reitman movie, Evolution.

COT: Is the casting couch still alive in Hollywood?

SILVERMAN: I don't know. I can't seem to get anyone to blow me.

SILVERMAN: Hurts so good.

COT: What's in your medicine cabinet?

SILVERMAN: Zoloft, Alesse, tylenol pm, exederin pm, bobby pins, benadryl, your mother's vibrator.

COT: Who's your favorite comic?

SILVERMAN: Todd Glass, Steve Martin (on talk shows), Garry Shandling, and, your mother.

COT: Ever had cybersex?

SILVERMAN: I was cyber-raped. All I could do was revert into my mind and "go away" to another webpage.

Want more Sarah? http://www.sportshollywood.com/asksilverman.html.

Interview by Rodney Lee Conover. He denies that his mother would ever own a vibrator.

Sarah Silverman "A couple nights ago, I was licking jelly off my boyfriend's penis . . . and I thought, Oh, my God--I'm turning into my mother!" "The writers of Sanford and Son were so brave in bringing their program to television. I mean, working with all those black people!" "So I live in this apartment that's disgusting--it's really dirty. And the kitchen floor is, like, sticky. And I had to do something about it. So finally I went out and bought some, uh, slippers."

"I'm suing my boss for sexual harrassment ... and it's real hard, and a big strain on me ... because he hasn't done anything." "I buy water at the liquor store across the street from where I live. So I'm walking into the door, and standing, loitering, outside the door is a man. And I walk by him to go in and he says [in a clenched, abrupt voice], 'I want pussy!' Now, I don't want to seem conceited or anything, but [rolling her eyes, both embarrassed and proud] he was talking about me. It offended me, obviously, but more than offending me, it made me feel sorry for him. It made me sad. Because it was so obvious to me that this was a person who grew up and who was a child whose mother and father never gave him any pussy." "I don't have a problem with gay men. I just don't want to date them" "I saw my father naked once . . . But it was okay . . . Because I was soooo young . . . and sooo drunk." "Models are fair game for comics. Why? Because they’re so pretty. Society has no pity for them. But, you know, models scream when you put them in boiling water." For more, check out this fan's site.