Sarah Silverman recently appeared on “The Howard Stern Show” and credited Conan O’Brien for helping to save her career after she was fired from “Saturday Night Live.” Silverman was a writer and cast member on “SNL” Season 19 but got dropped after one season.
“Conan was the best thing for me,” Silverman said about how O’Brien would invite her onto “Late Night” after her firing. “That was his first year [on ‘Late Night’], was my first and only year at ‘SNL.’ And he put me on all the time, even after I was fired, all the time, and that was the start for me.”
“And I wouldn’t have been able to be on Conan without ‘SNL,’” she added. “And it was an incredible kind of boot camp experience.”
Silverman said that while being at “SNL” was “so magical” and “so amazing,” there was also “just something about it where they just have this energy that puts you in your place where you feel like a piece of shit, and you’re terrified. The anxiety… it’s very hard to be zen and chill there.”
“Andy Samberg did that whole piece about the anxiety of doing something for ‘SNL,’” Silverman added, referring to Samberg’s “SNL50” sketch. “It was very honest — I thought a lot of people connected to it that were there. We all feel like losers here for some reason.”
Silverman has previously said that she wasn’t fired from “SNL” for any personal reason. It was simply the show’s usual housekeeping. But she was still blindsided by the decision.
“I was totally thrown for a loop when I was fired, because it never occurred to me that was possible,” Silverman told Stern. “But I think it’s definitely for the best.”
Watch Silverman’s interview on “The Howard Stern Show” in the video below.
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