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This weekend Sarah Silverman will return to Studio 8H, where she was a writer and featured player on Saturday Night Live during season 19, which ran from 1993 to 1994 and featured a cast bursting with talent: Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, and Phil Harman, to name a few. She didn't get much screen time, and none of the sketches she wrote made it to the big show, something she nods to in this promo for her upcoming hosting gig: "I did a bunch of sketches... I did Ambiguously Gay Duo, I wrote Gilly, I was Sarah Palin..."
Silverman was fired after her one season, and "parodied the situation when she appeared on The Larry Sanders Show episode 'The New Writer' (1996), playing Sanders's new staff writer, whose jokes are not used because of the chauvinism and bias of the male chief comedy writer, who favors the jokes of his male co-writers."
Below, you can watch some of her clips from the '90s.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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