By Rob. Walton
Balls-out comedian-writer-actress Sarah Silverman corners the market on talking dirty. In fact, the sexy performer does it better than anyone since Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor. Whether reminiscing about molestation in The Aristocrats or waxing philosophic about the grooming of ass hair on The New York Friars Club Roast of Hugh Hefner, Sarah gives it to you straight, without sugarcoating. In her new stand-up comedy movie Jesus Is Magic she breaks the ice with the shocking anecdote, "I was raped by a doctor…which is so bittersweet for a Jewish girl."
The sister of feminist rabbi Susan Silverman, Sarah got her break in showbiz as a writer and occasional player on Saturday Night Live before landing a recurring role as unflinching writer Wendy Traston on The Larry Sanders Show. Sarah now parlays her blasé brashness into the full-length concert movie Jesus Is Magic where she bashes everyone from Barbie to Christ. Some of her most memorable material is from Comedy Central's Crank Yankers, the prank phone call show produced by Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel. Among her characters is Kimmel's elderly mother, who repeatedly interrupts his phone call to a sex boutique by picking up on the extension. Sarah took a break from yanking crank to tell Playboy.com about her pet name for her vagina, her favorite part of a man and the two times she lost her virginity.
1. How old were you when you lost your virginity?
Sarah Silverman: I thought I lost my virginity when I was 18. I was visiting my sister in Boston and went out with a friend of hers. We watched Dead Ringers and fell asleep. In the morning my sister went to the AIDS Walk and we stayed in. We fooled around, he put on a condom and pushed himself against me. I thought that was sex, so I was perplexed when he gave up and said, "It's not like the movies, Sarah. Is that what you expected?" "No," I said, too cool for school. He got dressed and left and I sat in my sister's apartment, thrilled that I had had sex. The following year, when I was 19 and living in NYC, I went home with a guy I was nuts about. An older man. He asked if I was a virgin. I scoffed, "NO!" We had sex, throughout which I thought, "Oh...this is sex. I've never done this before."
2. Are you good in bed?
SS: I don't know. It's subjective.
3. What's the most memorable sexual experience you've ever had?
SS: A guy started kissing me. That was as far as I was going to let it go, but he thought there was going to be more than that. He said, "I have to tell you something." I said, "What?" He said, "Guess." And he made me play 20 questions to guess that he had herpes.
