--- title: Sarah Silverman Hosts Saturday Night Live: New SNL Video Promo description: The comedian returns to the show 20 years after her brief stint as a writer canonical: https://time.com/3453514/sarah-silverman-saturday-night-live/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-01T19:54:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:31.810Z og:title: Sarah Silverman Hosts Saturday Night Live: New SNL Video Promo og:description: The comedian returns to the show 20 years after her brief stint as a writer og:url: https://time.com/3453514/sarah-silverman-saturday-night-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb79373c2d12308a/6986a66d1eebf7d25a372fa1/screen-shot-2014-10-01-at-3-16-39-pm.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-10-01 at 3.16.39 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sarah Silverman Hosts Saturday Night Live: New SNL Video Promo twitter:description: The comedian returns to the show 20 years after her brief stint as a writer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb79373c2d12308a/6986a66d1eebf7d25a372fa1/screen-shot-2014-10-01-at-3-16-39-pm.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sarah Silverman Discusses Poop and Feminism in New _SNL_ Promo by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 1, 2014 7:54 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 1, 2014 7:54 PM UTC Back in 1993, Sarah Silverman joined _Saturday Night Live_ as a writer and performer. Things didn’t go too well, though, and she only lasted for one season. (See some of her clips [here](https://screen.yahoo.com/sarah-silverman-snl-skits/mistaken-roommate-000000873.html).) But now, two decades later, the famously potty-mouthed comedian is returning to Studio 8H — this time to host the show, which also features Maroon 5 as the musical guest. Silverman teamed up with cast member Taran Killam for this week’s promos, which mostly consist of them goofing around. Silverman talks a little bit about poop, a little bit about feminism and a little bit about the importance of voting. Yeah, we can probably expect this show to be a weird one. On a sort of but not really related note, here’s a video of Aubrey Plaza doing a spot-on Sarah Silverman impression: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3453514/sarah-silverman-saturday-night-live/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3453514/sarah-silverman-saturday-night-live/"},"headline":"Sarah Silverman Discusses Poop and Feminism in New SNL Promo","datePublished":"2014-10-01T19:54:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:31.810Z","description":"The comedian returns to the show 20 years after her brief stint as a writer","url":"https://time.com/3453514/sarah-silverman-saturday-night-live/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Comedy","SNL","Saturday Night Live","celebrity","Sarah Silverman","Comedians"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb79373c2d12308a/6986a66d1eebf7d25a372fa1/screen-shot-2014-10-01-at-3-16-39-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb79373c2d12308a/6986a66d1eebf7d25a372fa1/screen-shot-2014-10-01-at-3-16-39-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-10-01 at 3.16.39 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3453514/sarah-silverman-saturday-night-live/","name":"Sarah Silverman Discusses Poop and Feminism in New SNL Promo"}}]}] ```