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Mitra Jouhari Calls In from the Netflix Set
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Mitra Jouhari rings in from Netflix on her lunch break, and the resulting mini-interview is warm, fast, and illuminating. She traces her friendship with Sarah back to 2015 in New York, where a mutual friend described an incoming 'freak' named Sarah Sherman — they hit it off instantly, toured together, and eventually worked on Three Busy Debras on Adult Swim. Mitra and Amy discuss what makes Sarah unique: her rock-star stage persona as Sarah Squirm, her DIY roots in Chicago music venues, and her uncanny ability to make the grotesque feel cozy. Amy characterises Sarah's comedy as 'claiming the stuff that gets thrown at us' — doubling down on bodily shame until the audience feels relief rather than disgust. Mitra arrives armed with several questions for Sarah: her musical-theater character liberties, her hypothetical budget for a disgusting practical creation, and her all-time biggest bomb and best show.
Amy Poehler loves a pervert but cannot stand a creep — and she argues there is a hard, definable line between the two. The joke is that Sarah Sherman's entire comedy career occupies the pervert side of that line, keeping audiences simultaneously delighted and ritually humiliated.
