- Sarah gets some spots at the Boston Comedy Club and other open-mike nights around Manhattan. Every chance she gets she's hanging out in comedy clubs.
- When she gets to NYU, she works every weekend for a year leafleting for New York's Boston Comedy Club on Macdougal Street, where many adventures ensue.
- Caused a major controvery when she used the word chink during a stand up routine on 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien.'
- Once wrote an artice for Penthouse Magazine.
- While a writer on Saturday Night Live (1975), she played the Chop Suey in Adam Sandler's performance of LUNCHLADY LAND.
Quotes- On the US-Iraq war of 2003: "This is not the first time that Europe has been passive while a Jew-hating tyrant with a weird looking mustache killed the people by giving them gas. [Pause.] Obviously I'm talking about Chef Boyardee."
- "I saw my father naked once . . . But it was okay . . . Because I was soooo young . . . and sooo drunk."
- "People are always introducing me as "Sarah Siverman, Jewish comedienne." I HATE that! I wish people would see me for who I really am- I'm white!"
- "I'm dating a guy right now who's half-black. And I just know we're gonna break up. Wait a minute- look at me. I'm such a pessimist. He's half-white!"
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