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Sarah Sherman

Explore episode Jun 16, 2026
TV & Film
What Lorne Michaels Saw That Nobody Else Did

Sarah Sherman · Jun 16, 2026 TV & Film

After Sarah performed an animal character on SNL, Lorne Michaels pulled her aside and said, 'When you did that, I could tell you were loved as a child.' Sarah called it being completely 'clocked.' Parental scaffolding, it turns out, is visible from the stage.

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Hell Trap Nightmare and the Chicago DIY Scene

At 36:35 · chapter starts 31:40

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Arts
Hell Trap Nightmare: The Origin Show

Sarah Sherman · Jun 16, 2026 Arts

Sarah Sherman's first Hell Trap Nightmare show was held in a friend's Chicago basement. The lineup included a noise musician who flashed the crowd with chorizo taped to his genitals while smashing light bulbs. Sarah performed ten minutes of bad stand-up and chugged a can of room-temperature clam chowder. A career was born.

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