Sarah Silverman, 2007
Photo by F. Scott Schafer
Sarah Silverman is 52 years old today.
Silverman is a stand-up comedian, writer, producer and actress. Her 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., 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).
In 2015, she starred in the drama, I Smile Back, for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.
In 2017, Silverman became the host of a new talk show on Hulu called I Love You, America.