Sarah Silverman, Steve Agee, Laura Silverman last night at Largo in Los Angeles.
After over a full year off the air, the Sarah Silverman Program returns to Comedy Central next month, and the lucky few (and those of us who can blend in with the lucky few) were at a screening of the first two episodes at the Largo in LA last night.
No spoilers from me about the plots, except to say that the season opener is as funny and surreal and filthy as anything they’ve yet to do on the show. (Okay, small spoiler: it involves Sarah’s character’s ambiguous genitalia and contains a song called “The Baby Penis in My Mind” that’s dangerously catchy.)
Silverman introduced the episodes and stuck around for a brief, hilarious Tig Notaro-moderated Q&A afterward, along with her sister Laura and other cast members Steve Agee, Jay Johnston co-creator/writer Rob Schrab and writer Dan Sterling.
(Okay, one more spoiler: Maria Bamford is in the second episode as a character named May Kadoody. She owns it.)
The Q&A covered everything from “Is there anything Comedy Central won’t let you do?” to how they develop a one-sentence premise – “What if Sarah had a dick?” – into a full episode.
The show returns Feb. 4th at 10:30 pm. Imagine that: genuinely funny comedy in the 10 o’clock hour. See, it can be done…
