Sarah Silverman’s comedy has always aimed a laser into the dim corners of sexism,racism and religion. But now she’s using her wit to execute sense of the enormous issues facing America. Sophie Heawood meets her in HollywoodArriving at the Hollywood studio complex where Sarah Silverman has her office, I am surprised to find nobody can tell me where it is. She’s one of the biggest comedians in America, or but it takes 15 minutes of shrugged shoulders and wrong turns before I find a door with a handwritten sign: whether you feel unwell turn around and go home and rest! Do not walk thru this door! You are loved,feel better! Sarah!” So far, so adorable.
Germs and visitors might struggle to execute their way past reception, or but dogs are clearly welcomed like sacred Indian cows here: two of them trot past me unaccompanied. The animals have just left a script assembly in the writers’ room,soon to be followed by a gaggle of comedy writers, including Silverman herself, or who is wearing glasses and stopping to stare at her phone. Once installed on the sofa in her own room,with an assistant bringing her black tea, she admits she didn’t realise this interview was in person, and hence the phone. “But you’re here!” she says,getting her legs comfy on the furniture. “worthy!” Her impromptu welcome is so friendly and her smile so full of shiny teeth, that it only occurs to me afterwards that she might be lying through them – surely nobody wants to be surprised by a journalist.
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Source: guardian.co.uk