Sarah Sherman, aka Sarah Squirm, aka ringmaster of the Chicago comedy bacchanal “Helltrap Nightmare,” aka the freshest new face last season on “Saturday Night Live” and a safe bet for stardom, returned to the scene of the crime the other night.
Sarah Sherman, a new performer on"Saturday Night Live," does a comedy show at Sleeping Village in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood on June 9, 2022. Last September, she played a show at Sleeping Village in Avondale then left for New York the very next day to audition for “SNL”; within a handful of weeks, Sherman’s transgressive, confrontational yet charming act had a home on creaky old legacy media.
Midway through her hourlong set, she showed a set of slides of blood splatters and asked the audience to identify the source — hang nail? pimple? Doritos dust? With each increasingly disgusting answer, she cut to illustrative AV footage, hot springs of pus oozing from cardboard orifices and strips of skin torn off fingers, each video a small terror, made with the day-glow color and DIY arts-and-crafts rowdiness of an episode of “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.
She pinged and ponged. It’s all kind of a great mess. She wore a paisley psychedelic matching two-piece and said the eight years she lived in Chicago were “the ugliest eight years of my life.” She pretended briefly to be a standard-issue stand-up playing Zanies. She asked what that smell was. She tightened her shoulders, waddled across the stage and claimed she was Lori Lightfoot. She spoke of diarrhea within minutes of being on stage.“You think that’s disgusting?” Sherman screamed.
New proximity to Lorne Michaels aside, it was the Sarah Squirm that Chicago once cringed through, turning her monthly Hideout freak shows into must-see events. Indeed, if anything, Sherman’s gross-outs have become less remarkable than her steamrolling confidence, which bursts out in breathless rants less concerned with a typical set up-punchline pattern than a casual connection. She’s fun to hang with. I hate to call this. Their freshness is a big smile.
She wears you out, breaks you down. Your head spins. She’s so fast even when she’s stumbling, rooting around for a funny line, and failing to connect, she crumbles well. “I’ve lost it,” she said, deciding: “Well, going to grad school! See you guys later.” She walked into the wings and could be heard loudly applying to the University of Chicago to study medieval architecture. In life, she studied theater at Northwestern University.And it shows.
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