Now, Vulture, Good One, and Jesse are doing a West Coast edition that will feature writers Jessie Gaskell, Jocelyn Richard, Danny Ricker, and Jenny Yang from Conan, I Love You America, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Busy Tonight respectively.
It’s effectively a State of Late Night discussion that you shouldn’t miss. Also, you’ll get to sneak into the exclusive NeueHouse for a night.
Vulture Presents Inside Late Night is happening next Thurs. Jun. 27th at 7PM. Tickets are $25 and you best get them here.
New episodes of I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman are taping on Wednesdays at 5:30PM at Sunset Las Palmas Studios in Hollywood for the next few weeks.
Want in on being a part of the live studio audience? Get free tickets while they’re still available here.
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Hulu Renews Sarah Silverman’s I Love You America, America
Given how the mission of this talk show is Sarah Silverman going outside of her own bubble and past her own biases to reach out to all sorts of different folks, we’re glad to hear that it’ll be focusing on the upcoming midterm elections when it returns for a second season.
Also, we just love how I Love You, America has shown a whole different, beautiful side to Sarah Silverman. In general, it’s a more aspirational, positive comedy talk show, which is pretty much a unicorn these days.
The traditional form of late night is so well established these days, parodying it is getting to be an old move as well.
Still, there’s room for reinvention as Sarah Silverman has shown in premiere of her new series I Love You, America. Right in the series premiere opening, she prefaces how different the show might be (case in point full frontal nudity in the first few minutes of the show) and even offers up a satirical sidekick of a white man at a desk a la most late night talk shows.
Aside from Silverman’s brand of humor that she has rode to success, Silverman leans in to her more genuine persona (something she has been slowly doing over the last couple of years) by actually having heart-to-heart conversations with a Trump voter family over dinner and a former Westboro Baptist Church member in her very living room style studio.
As she had warned, they may not be getting dozens of laughs per minute, but they are engaging and fascinating (and maybe succeeding in territory attempted by a show like Brand X with Russell Brand).
It’s the first episode, so we’ll have to see how I Love You, America progresses, but it is refreshing to Sarah really embody the heart in the title of her show.
Sarah Silverman takes the form of a traditional song about diversity and inclusivity and gets a little meta in this music video as well as questions her privilege and the label of “Hollywood elite”.
From the looks of it, I Love You, America will be interesting mix of Silverman’s goofy, yet adult sense of humor, a brash streak of satire, and a certain vulnerability that Sarah has opened up over the last few years.
Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America will not be Last Week Tonight or Full Frontal, but will feature bits of wisdom from her father while he’s swimming.
See her describe it and preview a bit of her dad on the show here.
Commenting on the upcoming show at the TCAs today, Silverman wants to make a point of trying to engage and connect with people that aren’t anywhere near her perspective, ideologies, and attitudes.
While other shows in late night do try that approach from time-to-time, it would seem that they will be a central tenet of “I Love You, America”.
Silverman might just pull off what Russell Brand’s Brand X ultimately could not if executed correctly.
Sarah Silverman’s Weekly Topical Show “I Love You, America” Premieres on October 12th on Hulu
This is an important date for a few reasons.
One, Sarah Silverman will return to having her own TV show.
Two, talk shows/topical/late night get tipped more in the direction of diversity.
Three, this will be the second recurring topical/talk show (Chelsea on Netflix being the other one) on a major streaming service (unless you want to count Norm MacDonald Live on JASH in as well) with A-list talent attached to host.
These are all important points to keep in mind, but we’re curious to see if Sarah might twist the traditional format of all other talk/topical shows.
Hulu Orders Topical Weekly Show with Sarah Silverman from Funny Or Die
We’re curious to see where this will go as Sarah Silverman is definitely politically active and will be going for a show that’s balanced inviting other perspectives, beliefs, etc. to have a conversation with her.
We’re guessing that’d go much differently than it does on Real Time with Bill Maher, especially because of the fact that it’s called “I Love You America”. Also, if you’ve ever seen Sarah do crowd work multiple times, you’d notice that her curiosity does indeed lead her down a path of trying to hear people out.
10 episodes have been ordered from Funny or Die and a premiere date has yet to be announced.