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Our next guest is a star of Saturday Night Live, whom the New York Times called the queen of gross. She proves that. And then some in her HBO special, Sarah Squirm, live and in the flesh. Please welcome Sarah Sherman. Now, I feel like a real nerd tonight. The way I'm dressed. Well, did you see how long it took me to get out here? I had to like tiptoe. It's not practical, but it's beautiful. It's very colorful, and I like it. Yeah. How are you? How you doing? I'm good.
Uh, hey. Oh, by the way, you were very funny last week in the uh Saturday Night Live season finale. I will take it. which is a um and you guys went out with a bang guest-wise. You had Paul McCartney as your musical guest. That was crazy. Which is crazy. He touched my hair. Did he? Paul McCartney touched my hair. Why did he touch your hair? He So I like did a weekend update and uh I did like a bit where I talked about how I had his mullet from the Wings era. And so he came up to me at the good nights like when we're all bowing or whatever and was like s he's sarah and he knew my name brag and then he was like he pulled on my mullet tales. I know my mullet's not out right now but you know use your mind palace like he pulled on my mullet and he goes
is it real or is it a wig? I go Paul it's real. It's my hair. And so yeah he tells me that's fun. Nobody gets to You know what? I think it's very rare that somebody gets their mullet pulled by a beetle. And I liked it. And you liked it. Of course. As long as he doesn't pull too hard, why not? He do, honey. He do whatever he wants to do. How about um how about Will Ferrell? Was that Had you met Will? I assume you'd met Will. He's amazing. Yeah. You guys did a funny sketch together where um was this your idea? Uh it me my friend Jack who writes on the show. It was his idea.
This seems like a Jack idea. Yeah. So, um, you guys were the Nudeman's. We were the Nudeman. Nudeman's. And, um, this is, um, this is, this happened a bunch of times during that thing where you were, you were not nude, but, um, dressed, u provocatively from behind. Well, not one person whistled or like, can I can we zoom in a little? And uh, I don't mean I don't want to be weird, but go right for the hole, CAMERA GUY. I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU about this. Is this really Is this your real tattoo? No, I do have a stamp that they did have to cover up for that stamp.
All right. Okay. So, you had to have one stamp covered to be replaced by another stamp. My demon wings and human teeth had to get covered for the inter here. Did you have any reservations about showing your well your butt? Well, so I, you know, we're writing and laughing, you know, I'm not thinking like, oh my like was gonna be out, right? So like we were writing it and then people when it started getting produced, we're like, well, you're going to show like a prosthetic ass, right? And like that never occurred to me that it wouldn't be real.
Well, you're in your underwear. Yeah. Right. I mean, but I was like leaning over and then so I was kind of like when we were, you know, putting on not to be crass, I was leaning over with my ass out and then we were put I put on that silence just like fell across the room cuz all the blood left all everyone's brains and went straight to the So whatever. So I'm like I'm putting the costume on. I'm like, "Oh, I have like zits on my ass. I think you know I got pubes on my ass." I'm not like not. So, I like made them. Well, let me just say if you're feeling uncomfortable now, you should see the HBO special. Just don't because you your nickname, your real nickname is Sarah Squirm. How when who named you Sarah Squirm?
My friend Ethan in high school cuz my Christian name is Sherman. So, and then I was gross. So, they were calling me like Sarah Squirm, whatever in high school. No one ever said squirm Sherman. They did. It started Squirmish Sherman. That's a mouthful. So then it was a squirm and then it just stuck and then the show it kind of is like a trigger warning for my live show and like you know I'll get people walking out. I'm like well what do you think the poster literally has like a prolapsed dus on it and it's squir.
Do you love making people uncomfortable? Yeah. Is anyone feeling that? I don't know why I have that also. There's something Yeah. There's it's something I'm never more comfortable with than when everyone else is uncomfortable. Yes. And you have roots in prank which is like that is the f that is you're sick. You get off on people. Well, can I tell you something? My mother and she hates when I tell this story, but she would um when we were kids lay on the ground and pretend to be dead until we cried. Oh, that's me and my sister and then she would laugh, you know. Um but uh I think maybe that did it or something, you know.
I think so. Did you have any an incident, an event that um perverted your brain? My I had my grandmother had her eye removed for religious reasons and she had it her eyeball. So when you get your eye removed for cosmetic purposes, you have to like get a an orb sewn into your head in order to keep the orbital shape. Mhm. And because I'm a doctor and um so the thing that looks like the human eyeball is like a hand painted prosthetic lens that goes over the eye orb. So she had a bunch of lenses that she was like changing out all the time. And she would do pranks on me where she would like, you know, I'd come downstairs for breakfast in the morning and she would have no eye lens in. So she would just have a white orb like the
James and the Giant Peach guy and be like ah and take her dentures out and so she embraced that eyelessness. She embraced the eyelessness. And did and is she still with us? Your grandma? She's no longer with us, but I think she's smiling down from heaven at the fact that I have inherited all of her eyeballs. Oh, that's great. How many are there? They'll clap for anything this time. Where were you guys during Saturday Night Live's live show? When your grandmother passed away, was there any question that you'd be the one who got the eyeballs? It was We knew. We all knew. They were all going to Sarah. Yeah.
Yeah. And I did. I actually, you know, something's coming up, right? Things are coming up now in this conversation. My great aunt who passed, she had a bunch of old bakelight jewelry with like bugs in it. So, I got that. Oh, yeah. I got that. So, they know who to give this stuff to. Yeah. I You know, it's Death is sad, but sometimes some good can come out of it. Yeah. You get some good stuff. I get some good stuff. Well, it's great to have you here. Please watch uh the special. It's called Sarah Squirm Live in the Flesh. It's on HBO now. Sarah Sherman, everybody. Thank you, Sarah. Be back with Echando.
