Modified On August 13, 2012
Mandy Stadtmiller of the NY Post interviews Sarah Silverman and eventually gets to the London show (See “Silverman disappoints UK Fans”).
England was bizarre – I had the time of my life and the live show was a blast – the crowd was fantastic and I fell in love with them. Then I woke up the next morning and every reviewer said I got booed off the stage and bombed. I honestly thought I was being punked. BELIEVE ME I know when I bomb – I’ve bombed a billion times in my life. It was literally the opposite. Weird. Then of course Perez picked it up and all my friends in the states emailed me going, “f–k London, they suck” — but it wasn’t true. I wish I DID bomb there, at least all this press wouldn’t be so frustrating. Defamer posted a video someone took with their phone from my encore (I went back out and just shot the s–t for a bit. It was really fun – something that can only happen live, you know?) and you can see that I’m doing well. I never thought I’d be happy someone videotaped it and posted it on youtube! One thing I did learn was that on the ticket it said doors opened at 6:30 – which is when the theater had me arrive for sound check, which is lame. Also, I just found out the show was slated in the ads to be 2 hours long, and my show is one hour. I feel terribly that the crowd was misled – that is lame. As for my material, it’s half and half. Half old half new. I’m not a machine — I’m working on my show 15 hours a day for 8 months of the year. So please, don’t come if you want to see all new material!!
Read the entire interview here.