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Allison Silverman: "Questioning authority."
The Silverman Report
Meet the woman behind satirist
Stephen Colbert's Jewish jokes.
Curt Schleier
on the timing of the show;' Silverman
says later about her trips from her cor-
ner."Often we have to adjust the script
he taping doesn't begin until
or the length of the interview based on
7 p.m. But the unwashed
how long it's taken to get through the
masses begin lining up out-
earlier acts. Once Stephen made me
side the W. 54th Street studio at 3 p.m., arm-wrestle him. And the audience
a tribute to the popularity of Comedy
applauded when he beat me:'
Central's late-night phenomenon, The
Comedy is hard in the best of cir-
Colbert Report.
cumstances, but even more so when
And getting ready for the show
the real world is so, well, unreal.
inside is Allison Silverman, the show's
"There are definitely stories that
co-executive producer and co-head
come along that we can't do much
writer. She is extremely funny and,
with:' Silverman says. "They're already
some say, the next Tina Fey (the for-
so absurd that the funniest thing you
mer Saturday Night Live head writer can do is just show them to people.
who now helms her own successful
Other than that, I think our job as sat-
NBC sitcom, 30 Rock).
irists is to see stuff that's not blatantly
Lest you are unfamiliar with
crazy but on the way there and take
Stephen Colbert and the show he
them to their logical conclusion:'
hosts, the Report is the "illegitimate"
Her workday typically begins
child of The Daily Show. But unlike
around 9:15 a.m., when she meets
its parent, it deals with opinion
with writers to discuss ideas and
rather than news. Colbert plays a self-
listen to pitches, and with the produc-
absorbed Bill O'Reilly-ish blowhard
tion staff to discuss the graphics and
who never lets the facts interfere with
props that will be needed. There is,
his opinion.
Silverman says, a lot of re-writing and
By 6:30, his fans come into the
honing.
studio, greeted by a comic whose job
Silverman is unwilling to talk about
is to warm them up. Finally, Colbert
the "Best of Allison Silverman," those
himself hops out, giving high-fives
funniest of bits humorists come up
to members of the audience. Behind
with and then remember for the rest
him, Silverman and her co-executive
of their lives. "I'm a head writer and
producers slip unobtrusively to a table producer. It's a lot about finding the
at the side of the room. There they
right ideas and helping to shape and
stay while Colbert does his take on
produce them. I can't take complete
the day's news, emerging only during
ownership of an idea. That would be
commercials to consult the star.
inaccurate, and I am uncomfortable
"Generally we're getting updates
with that."
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