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Observations From Sarah Silverman:
n her boyfriend, the late-
night talk-show host
Jimmy Kimmel: "I wear this
St. Christopher medal some-
times because I'm Jewish but
my boyfriend is Catholic. It
was cute the way he gave it to
me; he said if it doesn't burn
through my skin, it'll protect
me."
On raising interfaith chil-
dren: "We'd be honest and
just say, `Mommy is one of the
Chosen People and Daddy
believes that Jesus is magic.'"
On her 2001 clash with an
Asian-American group:
"[They] put my name in the
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papers calling me a racist.
And it hurt. As a Jew — as a
member of the Jewish commu-
nity — I was really concerned
we were
losing con-
trol of the
media."
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On her
edgy repu-
tation: "I
don't care
if you think
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racist. I
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you to
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"I'm only recently unhairy," she
adds during the interview, run-
ning a hand over her newly waxed
arm.
Becoming the class clown
helped her to survive on the
periphery of student cliques.
"It's very powerful to be able to
make people laugh, and I discov-
ered that power young ) ) Silverman
says. "My father thought it was
hilarious to teach his toddler
swear words; so I was this little
kid saying [those words] while
the adults laughed hysterically
That positive reaction fed itself,
and I wanted more and more."
By age 22, Silverman was a pro-
fessional standup and a cast mem-
ber of Saturday Night Live, where
she began exploring her Jewish
identity by writing Jewish jokes. It
helped that her sister Susan, a
rabbi, had married future Jewish
Family & Life CEO Yossi
Abramowitz.
On SNL's "Weekend Report',' the
comic declared, "So now my sis-
ter's name is Susan Silverman-
Abramowitz. But they're thinking
of shortening it to just 'Jews:"
The joke "kind of kicked things
off for me in a Jewish way',' she
says. "I've never felt more Jewish
than as a standup. I've become like
this Jewish comedian, but I'm dis-
covering it at the same time as the
audience."
She admits her very Jewish act
may also be a rebellion against
producers who, in her opinion,
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don't want to put Jewesses
onscreen.
"Hollywood is run by self-
loathing Jews who don't want to
see themselves reflected in their
work," she says. Once a TV execu-
tive told her the only hot Jewish
actress in town was Winona Ryder
(nee Horowitz) — and even Ryder
wouldn't have a career if she had
kept her real name.
Without a name change,
Silverman managed to build a
modestly successful resume. She
appeared in films such as There's
Something About Mary and School
of Rock and on TV shows such as
Greg the Bunny. She has portrayed
a Jewish-American Princess char-
acter on Comedy Central's Crank
Yankers.
In Jesus, she includes an ironic
thought-provoking sequence on
Jews who buy German cars: If
companies like Mercedes "could
only have seen ... the amount of
money they'd be making from
Jewish consumers, maybe they'd
have helped not kill the Jews. But
instead they helped facilitate [the]
genocide of a people who would
ultimately become their best cus-
tomers. Any Jew will tell you that's
just bad business." ❑
Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is
Magic is scheduled to open
Friday, Nov. 25, at the Main
Art Theatre in Royal Oak.
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