Sarah Silverman
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"Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics"2008 Jimmy Kimmel Live!

"Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special"2014 Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles}}

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"Sarah Kate Silverman" is an American stand-up comedian, writer, producer, and actress. Her satire/satirical comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics, such as racism, sexism and religion, having her comic character endorse them in an ironic fashion.

Silverman was a writer and occasional performer for 18 weeks on Saturday Night Live and starred in and produced The Sarah Silverman Program, which ran from 2007 to 2010 on Comedy Central. She released an autobiography The Bedwetter in 2010. She has also appeared in other television programs, such as Mr Show and V.I.P. (TV series)/V.I.P., and starred in films, including Who's the Caboose? (1997), School of Rock (2003), Wreck-It Ralph (2012) and A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014).

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They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.

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Oh, this sounds so obnoxious, ... I'm not planning anything out. I'm just trying to be funny. I don't think any of it's particularly deep. It's just what interests me.

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Guess what, Martin Luther King? I had a (expletive) dream, too.

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I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.

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I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

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People need to feel like they're not being attacked, like they're in a safe space where no punches are being pulled.

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It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

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I think that's always how it's been, ... I certainly didn't invent it. Look at the people who are kind of the funniest cultures, they're the cultures of the people who have been the most oppressed, black people and Jews. Not that they're the only funny people, but culturally, it comes from the pain, you know?

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I always want to laugh at the sad stuff. You don't need to laugh at the other stuff. I'm not numb to these things. I still go into really dark periods about Sept. 11. I think it's kind of like bullies. Bullies are just scared and thin-skinned, so they have to become bullies as a kind of survival tactic. I think comics are that way, too.

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