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  1. “Bought that. I mean, looking back, I'm just like, that's so absurd that a woman comment couldn't talk about the experience of being a woman. The conceit was yes, the audience is half men and half women, but the women are in dates and they only laugh if the man laughs. So your audience is the men.”

    2022-01-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #563: Sarah Silverman — The Joy of Being Alone, Becoming Your Own Best Friend, Insights from Therapy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “I got a call, a three-way call from my agent and my manager, and it never occurred to me that I wasn't coming back. I was already writing sketches. I was like, and this year is going to be better. It's going to be great, you know. And I go, oh, they're both calling me. Hello, you know, what wonderful news must this be? And of course, I was fired and they said that they had gotten the fax. It's fine that they got a fact. That's the business, that's how it was, and they let go of a lot of people that had their first year. But I remember starting out comedy and guy comics giving me advice. They go, the best woman comic is Paula Poundstone. And that was probably true. I love her. But they go, and the reason is because a guy could do the same material and it would work. I bought it.”

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  3. “Focus off of myself, which is really a self-centeredness and watching the guides and watching them fail, shake it off, shoot again, shoot again, and go oh yeah Yeah, I can keep shooting if I have a shot I should shoot Does that make sense at all as an analogy?”

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  4. “Because you feel the weight of the guy go and maybe I'm putting that on them. Maybe it's true and maybe I'm putting it on them. And either way it shouldn't be in my head, but it is. And you carry this weight and it doesn't help you. And I always say sometimes, especially in New York, I love just watching the pickup games and stuff. And there's always maybe there's a woman playing and I go, watch how many times these guys shoot and miss and shake it off and shoot again and shoot again and shoot again. That's how you get better. You cannot take on this Oh, I'm a woman in a guy's game and I that feeling that if I shoot and miss, I better not shoot for a while because I better just work on setting picks. It really taught me something. Suddenly taking”

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  5. “But that feeling of going to pick up games and the you can feel guys rolling their eyes or a burden they feel that they have a girl on their team or this and having to prove yourself so much. And I like using this analogy with other women in comedy or other women that I play basketball with. Every shot as a woman that you shoot and miss is like missing a hundred baskets.”

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  6. “Know we're hanging out, we're getting to know each other, and they go, So, were you a typist? And I was like, What? I'm a writer like you, and it was just, I always think of. How it was for me to be a woman in comedy. As how it was for me to be a woman in basketball, because I played basketball growing up but not at school. I played at the Y. And so I always played with almost all men. And I still, although I haven't played since March 2020, play pickup games with almost all men. Sometimes a woman will play and it's great. And I always demand that we're on the same team because I hate how they always go, well, we'll need to take a girl, you know, like I've played my whole life. I play, you know”

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  7. “And boy, I mean, it was, there were computers then, but we still wrote on legal tads and gave it to a room of typists. I remember my first day I was put with these three guys who were hired right out of Harvard. And we were all 22. But I didn't go to college. It was a standup. And they kind of put us together because we were the kids and the newbies or whatever. I spent the whole day with these guys. And at the end of it, I mean, they thought I was a typist. They just assumed I was a typist.”

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  8. “Oh, so Thursday night you take the writer's room, you sit around a big table, and this is how it was in'94 You go through all of the scripts that are now chosen to be on the show and you punch them up. You, you know, oh, there could be a joke here. Maybe there's something better for this, you know. Just go through it and see, try to make it better as a group.”

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  9. “I think what I meant was it really was like a boot camp. And I remember going in thinking, oh my gosh, I have this job where I can dream things up. And then they're on television. It didn't necessarily go that way, but it was a great experience and I learned so much. And it was still Very much a boys club to use that old. There were not many women around and it was just a very different time. It was about to really change, but it hadn't yet. I did like it and I got along with everyone and I really shined on Thursday nights for punch up. That was like where I could really, I felt like I.”

    2022-01-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #563: Sarah Silverman — The Joy of Being Alone, Becoming Your Own Best Friend, Insights from Therapy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “There's something there. It's work. And you have to be brave enough to eat a bowl of shit and try Try new stuff and see where it goes, and then some stuff that bombs you cut and some stuff that bombs you still believe in. There's something here. I like this. It could be just missing a beat or an and or a an article of a word or I'm setting it up too much or I'm not setting it up enough. But the point is you have to be brave enough to bomb again and start over even if you're famous, even if people come to see you and you know they're going to be disappointed because that processes, you can't avoid it. You can't write a monologue at home and memorize it. It's just not how comedy works. The audience is half of it.”

    2022-01-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #563: Sarah Silverman — The Joy of Being Alone, Becoming Your Own Best Friend, Insights from Therapy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “Comedy dies in the second guessing of what your audience wants to see. It was never how I had started, and now I found myself in this place where I was like, well, if they're expecting to be surprised, they need to surprise them, but then I'm giving them what they're expecting. And I just had to stop. And I got very inspired, real, you know, by watching Chris Rock, who does a special, I mean, he's such a pro, he goes out on the road, he, you know, runs it, runs it, runs it, tweaks it, you know, all those things. And then he starts at zero. And he goes to the comedy cellar or wherever he goes, and they bring him up and the audience goes bananas. And he doesn't take on that pressure of wanting to give them what they want to see. He just, what do I got? He brings it down to zero. He bums, and maybe one or two or three things”

    2022-01-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #563: Sarah Silverman — The Joy of Being Alone, Becoming Your Own Best Friend, Insights from Therapy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “Yeah, I just didn't know what to do because I had a real identity crisis and it was a great moment of growth in a way because I People didn't want to see the same material. I had to write new material. But in order to do that, I had to disappoint audiences. I had to start over. And now people came to see me. I wasn't just comedian number seven at the improv lineup. People were coming to see me, but I had to start over. They expected was to be shocked and surprised, and I wanted to give them that, and I didn't know how to do that because they had an expectation of it now. But I had to realize was”

    2022-01-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #563: Sarah Silverman — The Joy of Being Alone, Becoming Your Own Best Friend, Insights from Therapy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “I just I remember the feeling of yelling it out and all these grown ups giving me this wild approval despite themselves and that feeling Just became addicted. I remember my arms itched with glee. And of course I chased that. Shock became my currency at three and four and five. And it just made so much sense looking at how I depended on that. And then after my first special, which was a stand-up movie, actually, I didn't get a special with anyone, but the guy from Interscope was like, I'll make a movie. And Jesus' magic was my first special. It came out like a movie. After that, I had to start over. That was my first special, so it was the best of everything I had ever done, you know, kind of assembled. Now I had nothing. I had done it as a one woman show for a few years. And then it came out in like 2004 or 2005. So I had been working with that material for so long.”

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  14. “I had a dad who thought it was hilarious to teach his three-year-old swears. And then I would yell those swears at the market.”

    2022-01-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #563: Sarah Silverman — The Joy of Being Alone, Becoming Your Own Best Friend, Insights from Therapy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “So these moments where I found myself trying to Do or be what I've seen before, what is normal, and then I had to just throw it out. I was writing with such furrowed brow you could see it. Then just kind of Almost being an investigative reporter in my life, interviewing my parents and seeing how those stories, their perspective on things were the same and where they were different and kind of be a detective in my own life to be able to tell a story and realizing stuff I had never realized, you know, having to deconstruct I just thought, oh, God, well, you know, deconstructing comedy just ruins it. But it kind of doesn't. It's interesting. And to me, it's fascinating. It's what I love. And writing that book made me realize really see the trajectory of how I became a comedian because”

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  16. “Know it's like the first time I did fresh air with Terry Gross. I remember I was like, well, Terry, you know, you know, and then I was just like, who is this? I felt like I had to. I grew up with NBR. I wanted to have that voice. I felt like I needed to”

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  17. “The first couple months of stuff I wrote, I had to throw away because I was writing the way I thought a writer should write. Instead of just The pros of how I talk. Me, however that is.”

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  18. “Yeah, I think so. And I think I've shed that a lot, but I think comedians kind of go one of two ways. Judd Apital watches everything comedy that comes out, podcast, movie, TV. He just loves consuming. He loves comedy. You know, it's like, It's like when you watch a Scorsese film or a Tarantino film where you go, oh, these movies are made by someone who loves movies. Like I think Jeth of. Is like of that school. There are other comedians, and I'm not proud that I fall into this, that just it's not relaxing to watch comedy. It's relaxing to watch a murder mystery. Or, you know, like for me, I like thrillers or murdery stuff. Peaky Blinders, you know, stuff that's just not in my world, something that I can just get lost in.”

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  19. “The movie is so great, but I have to say I love this series even more. There's just something, the actors are unbelievable and it just, it brings me a lot of joy. It doesn't give me that comedy stress for some reason. I think I'm growing out of it.”

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  20. “Oh my gosh. What is it about? It's on FX. It is like a reality show. Because it's one of those mockumentary style. But it's about these three vampires living together in a house in Staten Island. And it's very like kind of show about nothing, like just about everyday life getting along. But then they have unbelievable. So, to see that in a format that's like reality TV, the contrast is so fascinating and it's just brilliant.”

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  21. “It's so good and just bizarre. But I tend to not watch comedies, even though I really should. And when I do, I'm glad I did. But I think as a comedian, it feels stressful. I don't go like, oh, this would be relaxing. Either it's I don't like it or I like it and I go, oh God, I wish I wrote that, you know, but I do end up liking it. And one show that's on that I watch the whole first three seasons twice through is, and I'm waiting for the fourth season and it's a comedy is what we do in the shadows.”

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  22. “It's a constant. It's something I can always, you know, I used to bring the same plaid blanket that I'd shove into my bag just so I could put it over the hotel blanket and just have something just consistent, something that feels like home. So I think law and order has just always been that. And now it's so funny like I'm discovering I'm loving Colombo, which, you know, like from the 70s and 80s.”

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  23. “Yeah, you know, you don't really see blood, you know, but it's all Broadway actors, you know, playing cops and lawyers. And I love watching the same actors playing different roles, you know, and just, I think it comes from this, which is when you're on the road, A constant. Wherever you are, you can find law and order and it's like my, what do they call it in the totem? You know, the movie totem”

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  24. “Law and order is my safe space. I just something about this soft core murder. you know kind of like comedia version of things ripped from the headlines like not true crime but that”

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  25. “But when I do go out, I am social and I love talking to people and meeting new people and I am a people person, but I just really love being alone. And I've had friends, especially now, really annoyed with me that I'm not connecting with them. And I feel busy because when I have free time, I want to take a nap or watch TV or snuggle with my dog. I love my friends and I do drop the ball. Lot. I have a lot of friends that say, Why is it always me calling you? And I feel terrible because I love them and I think of them and I keep track of them, you know, on social media, whatever. This is asshole excuses. I'm really not good at staying connect”

    2022-01-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #563: Sarah Silverman — The Joy of Being Alone, Becoming Your Own Best Friend, Insights from Therapy, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  26. “My friends always made fun of me because I have the opposite of FOMO. One of my best friends, John, he loves telling the story. I was living in West Hollywood and all my friends lived on the east side and I just never saw them because I couldn't even imagine getting in my car and going to a bar to hang out. I don't know why. I just, I just, I like staying home. I love watching TV. It's not very intellectual, but it's really my joy. There was a birthday party for two really close friends, not even a block away. And I didn't make it. And he was just like, you're unbelievable.”

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  27. “But I feel like I get a lot out of that just talking because we are always have this kind of inner monologue going on. Do we? I don't know. I think we do, you know, we're always thinking something”

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  28. “Yeah, and so I got really comfortable taking our lives so much so that I've had boyfriends that are like, what? No, nothing. I wasn't talking to you.”

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  29. “I just talk out loud. I think just. Creatively, just as a human, I'll be saying my half of a conversation I'm imagining or just be in conversation with myself. You know, I mean, I think when someone has a dog, they feel comfortable doing that. But essentially, that isn't talking to yourself. You're talking to another living thing, but remove the dog and there isn't a big difference in that. Conversation.”

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  30. “I did actually practice. I lived in this apartment building for fourteen years. I just moved into my first house since growing up in New Hampshire. But I would walk in from the apartment building and there were mirrors by the elevator and I'd make myself look in the mirror and give myself a thumbs up. Even though it's silly because it's silly, I guess, it always made me laugh. It just makes me laugh. So it's nice to have kind of inside jokes with yourself. I also became very comfortable. Talking out loud when I'm alone. When you first try it as an experiment, you really have to break through a wall. Like it feels so odd. And now I'm so comfortable doing it. Oftentimes”

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  31. “I guess when I listen to music, I think that's it takes me to a new place that isn't just company. But it is a confrontation. It's Mein Kump.”

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  32. “There was one relationship I just completely lost myself. My partner fell in love with this independent woman and I became a completely dependent, co-dependent. You know, I got out of that relationship so emotionally atrophied. I forgot who I was. I forgot, I remember I just kept saying like, I don't know how to be. And that was really scary for me. And I think from then on, I really got, it became really important to me to. Be alone and enjoy that. And I became, I loved it. I would come home and go, what do you want to do tonight? Me. I love hanging out with myself, but I also love television. I said recently on my podcast, I had to kind of admit I always say how much I love being alone and I do. But I'm constantly being kept company. Got the TV on. I'm listening to Howard Stern. I've got.”

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  33. “Kind of went from serial monogamist. I wouldn't go out on a date with a guy without it and he's putting two years in. Maybe you had a politeness or, you know, I”

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  34. “With all my stuff, and everyone's getting off the bus, and my mom picks me up. She was a photographer, and she just was taking pictures of me like a paparazzi and I was begging her to stop. And it was just this very odd combination of being photographed and ignored at the same time.”

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  35. “I remembered the moment it happened, what was happening, you know, I was a chronic bedwetter and we had the eighth grade camping trip, which was a four-day camping trip at Mount Cardigan. And I was the student leader. And I cried the whole time. And I had diapers hidden in my sleeping bag. And I just felt humiliated and homesick. Nobody caught me with the, I slipped diapers in my sleeping bag so that I wouldn't pee in my sleeping bag. I was 12, 13, but I just was painfully homesick and I never enjoyed a moment of it. It was terrible. And I probably would have loved it anyway. It was humiliating. And we come home and I just want to go home and go into bed. And I've got my giant backpack.”

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  36. “Just doesn't even seem possible. It can't be legal to be giving a child that much drugs. My mom and my dad were kind of trying to come up with solutions and fix things, and my stepdad was the only one who just asked me what it felt like. Was the first time I had to think about what it felt like, and I really came up with the perfect description, which is it felt just like I was homesick, but I was home. So there was no way to satiate it. You know, there was nothing to hope for. There was no home to go to. I was home.”

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  37. “Wow, yes, I can tell you exactly, and you know, it's one of the few like very clear memories I have of that time. Depression came over me when I was 13. I always say it's like as fast as the flu. You ever get the flu from one moment to the next you just go, you feel fine and then you go, oh, my God, I have the flu. It was like that fast. Covering the sun, and all of a sudden it's dark, you know. It lasted for a few years and it was the eighties and I was put on. Xanax, that's a crazy story and ultimately was just given more and more and more until I was thirteen and taking sixteen Xanax a day, four Xanax four times a day.”

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  38. “I am Masud was a little Neil Diamond impression to no one there. And no one heard at all not even the chair Oh you can hear me now”

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