Trivia / Sarah Silverman

• Cross-Dressing Voices: She and her sister Laura voice Ollie and Andy Pesto, respectively, on Bob's Burgers.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Notable in not having established a type yet, she plays a nerdy and somewhat awkward astronomer in Star Trek: Voyager. Her character does exhibit some of Sarah's Genki Girl persona, but none of the vulgarity or crassness.
  • Vanellope von Schweetz in Wreck-It Ralph was initially caught up in Silverman's (deserved) reputation as a vulgar comedienne – it is a Disney film, after all – but once the movie came out and people saw it, they realized that Van (and Sarah) had Hidden Depths. She subsequently reprised the role for Ralph Breaks the Internet and Disney Infinity.
• Real-Life Relative: Sarah's sister Laura Silverman is an actress in her own right, and they've occasionally teamed up for projects (most notably The Sarah Silverman Program and Bob's Burgers^note Laura and Sarah voice the clingy Pesto twins, Andy and Ollie. Laura is Andy and Sarah is Ollie). They also have another sister, Jodyne, who writes screenplays. Another Silverman sister, Susan, isn't involved in show business (she's a rabbi who currently lives in Israel).
  • And no, Jonathan Silverman (of Weekend at Bernie's fame) is no relation. Neither are animator David Silverman (The Simpsons) nor the late network executive Fred Silverman.
• Screwed by the Network:
  • She was on Saturday Night Live for one season, didn't appear much in sketches or get the chance to showcase the type of humor she'd be known for later, and was then faxed a statement saying that they didn't need her back. This, along with Janeane Garofalo's time on the show (which was said to be worse than what Sarah Silverman went through), was proof for a lot of people to claim that SNL wasn't kind to women back before Tina Fey turned it around and showed that crude, satirical humor knows no gender. Despite this, she came back to host SNL during its 40th season.
  • And again in 2012, when the NBC rejected the pilot for her proposed, Ron Howard-produced sitcom Susan 313. The pilot never even aired, although it did eventually turn up on her YouTube channel.
• What Could Have Been: She was almost made a full-time cast member of Star Trek: Voyager on the strength of her guest-role as a twentieth-century scientist.

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