A few days ago, Sarah gave a few pavement-beating reporters a sneak peek at the third season of The Sarah Silverman Program…
Matt: It sounds like you have a good season coming up.
Sarah: It does, right? I know I'm forgetting like eight episodes. There's one episode; our eighth episode actually is a Steve and Brian story line that, you'll actually, dare I say, cry at the end.
It was written as a drama. Rob Schrab, actually, who directs most of the episodes, and writes so much and created the show with me, wrote this episode; and he wrote the "A" story like it's a drama. I don't think it's like a very special "Family Ties," but I think you might get choked up at the end.
Don't miss the season premiere tomorrow at 10:30pm/9:30c, and check out the rest of the interview after the jump to hear Sarah's thoughts about Conan, her gay fans, and what she would be doing if not for her show…
Ben: Hey, Sarah. I'm from Gunaction.com. Sports, beer, media, humor, girls, and gadgets. That's what we do. I am a huge fan of your show. I absolutely love it. What I was always wondering is, if you didn't make it into comedy, what would you be doing?
Sarah: I would probably work with retarded adults.
Erin: Congratulations on the success of the show. I have to change topics a little bit, and I need to know if you think Conan got a raw deal?
Sarah: Yeah. I mean, I feel pretty confident that he's going to end up on top somehow, but totally. I just can't get my head around it. The guy has done so much for NBC and for Late Night, and has made such a success. If you remember, any talk show starts out super slow. No talk show has ever been a hit from day one, ever. And to switch from 12:30 to 11:30 seems like no big deal, but it is. It's a whole different animal. Not that I know, but from what I know, from what I see. To have him move his whole family and hundreds, over a hundred, hundreds, maybe, of staff, taking their whole lives and moving to L.A. Getting their kids in schools out here, and then only giving it six months? That's … crazy. They should never be able to use the words, "The NBC Family." Ever.
But, that said; people go, "Well, he got so much money," and that's nice that he got money, but he loves that job. Also, he got the money, but the rest of the whole crew doesn't, and he's got …. He's a good guy. I think they all probably feel real displaced, and abandoned. And they have every right to feel that way.
I can't help but hope that he lands at FOX or somewhere, anywhere. Wherever he lands, he'll always have an audience. I just thought that that was a real … move on NBC's part. And then on top of it, of course the last week or two of the show was just amazing, you know?
Jerry: How do you feel about your gay fans?
Sarah: Well, they saved us. We wouldn't be on the air if it wasn't for Logo. Not that that's the only reason why, but I mean—it's funny because I was talking to some gay friends of mine, and they were just like; it's not just that Steve and Brian are gay, it's just kind of the subversive humor. It's that kind of like absurdist stuff is I guess up, the cup of tea of a lot of people in the gay community; maybe more in general than the straight community. I don't know, but yeah. I'm just so grateful.
I know that gays belong to Kathy, but any fall over, I'm not going to take. I'm just so grateful to Logo. They didn't even think twice about helping us, and in terms of the content, never, ever had even a request. They really are amazing over there, and I can't express how grateful we all are for them, because we wouldn't have had a third season without them, and they asked for nothing in return. The fact that their end of the bargain is that they get to air the episodes, it's like really? It's amazing to us, too. Its so win-win and we're just so grateful. So totally grateful.
John: Hi, I'm here on behalf of Home Media Magazine. My question is what kind of cool things can fans expect from the DVD of Season 2, Volume 2 that's coming out soon?
Sarah: Hold on, I'm going to look at it right next. I just got a box of them. First of all, let's see. It's the rest of Season 2. Season 2 got split up by the strike for us. There's also a bunch of animated shorts. There's some great behind the scenes stuff. We did audio commentary.
The behind the scenes stuff is really cool on it, actually, because we always just have somebody around with a flip camera or something, backstage, and they grab us between scenes, or whatever, and make something cool out of it. And then, just all the episodes.
Good news, Sarah-Heads! Season Three of The Sarah Silverman Program will premiere February 4 at 10:30pm/9:30c, right after the season premiere of Important Things with Demetri Martin.
Unbelievable news! Sarah, seen here at last year's Emmy Awards, was nominated for another Emmy in the category of "Lead Actress in a Comedy" alongside some serious heavyweights, including: