--- title: Sarah Silverman Does Joan Rivers Impression on SNL description: Comedian Sarah Silverman hosted SNL for the first time Saturday night canonical: https://time.com/3471809/sarah-silverman-does-joan-rivers-impression-on-snl/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-05T17:00:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:35:54.065Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Sarah Silverman Does Joan Rivers Impression on SNL og:description: Comedian Sarah Silverman hosted SNL for the first time Saturday night og:url: https://time.com/3471809/sarah-silverman-does-joan-rivers-impression-on-snl/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sarah Silverman Does Joan Rivers Impression on SNL twitter:description: Comedian Sarah Silverman hosted SNL for the first time Saturday night twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Sarah Silverman Does Joan Rivers Impression on SNL by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Oct 5, 2014 5:00 PM CUT by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Oct 5, 2014 5:00 PM CUT Comedian Sarah Silverman hosted SNL for the first time Saturday night, and kept the audience entertained with her impression of Joan Rivers in heaven. As Rivers, Silverman roasted other dearly departed stars Steve Jobs, Ben Franklin and Richard Pryor. The impression of Rivers was spot-on, and the comedic tribute from Silverman was a touching homage to her late friend. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3471809/sarah-silverman-does-joan-rivers-impression-on-snl/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3471809/sarah-silverman-does-joan-rivers-impression-on-snl/"},"headline":"Sarah Silverman Does Joan Rivers Impression on SNL","datePublished":"2014-10-05T17:00:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:35:54.065Z","description":"Silverman and Rivers, died on Sept. 4, were good friends","url":"https://time.com/3471809/sarah-silverman-does-joan-rivers-impression-on-snl/","keywords":["SNL","Saturday Night Live","Steve Jobs","joan rivers","Sarah Silverman"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/snl/","name":"SNL"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3471809/sarah-silverman-does-joan-rivers-impression-on-snl/","name":"Sarah Silverman Does Joan Rivers Impression on SNL"}}]}] ```