Silverman returns to Comedy Central

Sarah Silverman

After two successful seasons on Comedy Central, “The Sarah Silverman Program” returns with more demented and off-the-wall comedy.

The show centers on a fictionalized version of comedian Sarah Silverman and her friends and family. It often satirizes the scenarios present in traditional, wholesome family comedies.

In a recent interview with Hilltop Views, Silverman talked about what fans can expect from the upcoming season.

Along with the gags, Silverman promises to deliver a host of familiar faces.

“Andy Samberg plays my childhood imaginary friend who comes back all grown up and becomes a nightmare,” Silverman said.

For Silverman, the experience of working with Samberg was a real treat.

“He’s like a little brother,” she said. “He’s such a wide-eyed angel, a little Jewish angel.”Bill Maher, Bradley Whitford, Josh Malina and Patton Oswalt are also among the guest stars expected to appear. Even TV legend Ed Asner will make an appearance as a Nazi war criminal.

Silverman also revealed that one of her biggest fears in real life will be featured on the show.

“A couple of things this season came from my fear of necks and how necks are so vulnerable,” Silverman said. “And because we wrote that in, I have to get a Frisbee in my neck.”

Silverman elaborated on her neck phobia.

“This is my take on the neck: Why isn’t there bone there?” she said. “There’s so much important stuff in your throat. Why isn’t it protected by some extended rib cage or bone?  It freaks me out.  It’s so easy to get to.”

Silverman is known for her envelope-pushing, sometimes controversial comedy. However, she has her breaking point when it comes to what she will and will not say.

“If something strikes me [as] meaner than it is funny, then I don’t want to do it,” she said. “I don’t like fat jokes about women … it usually just bums me out. We live in a country where fat men still deserve love, and fat women, at least in white America, it’s like they don’t deserve love or something.  That’s scary to me and upsetting.”

With this season, Silverman and her writing team are still sticking to the formula that has made the show successful thus far. But they are aiming to outdo themselves.

“I think, even though our goal so often is to be just aggressively stupid, you’ll see a definite amount of growth this season,” she said. “The characters are so much more defined and I just think it’s the funniest and best season yet in terms of quality and character and story. I think that we’ve definitely passed ourselves. So, we’re hoping people tune in.”