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Journalism giant, Judith Newman recently interviewed comedian, Sarah Silverman for the ancient New York Times. Ms. Silverman is currently promoting her memoir, “The Bedwetter”, number 9 last week on the New York Times nonfiction hardcover bestseller list.

Said David Hirshey, Silverman’s editor at HarperCollins – that paid $2.5 million for the book:

“In 18 months of working with her, I don’t think I ever saw Sarah in a shirt that didn’t have a number on it…She dresses as if she’s always ready for a touch football game”

To which the famous comedian replied:

“Wait, am I dressing like a 14-year-old boy, or are all 14-year-old boys dressing like me? Remember, they’re my demo.”

The 39-year-old Silverman has been doing stand-up since she was a student at N.Y.U. She has made herself famous with her fearlessly un-PC signature jokes.

Silverman was number 29 on Maxim’s Hot List in 2007 – though a fashionista she is considered not – not by her own reckoning anyway.
When she started performing in the early ’90s, she had a fashion ensemble: miniskirts, “That Girl” beehive and black buttoned shirts with sheer black sleeves. These days, she says:

“If I kill in an outfit, I’ll wear it again and again, until people start making fun of me…There’s so many things you have to do in order to get dressed up…and heels put me in a bad mood after a certain amount of time. I hit a wall and I must go home.”

Ms. Silverman comes from a long line of fashion weirdos: her father, who owned Crazy Sophie’s Factory Outlet in New Hampshire, wears only clothing with the Target logo on it, and her mother, overalls. When she was on the “Tonight Show” and her father and stepmother were in the audience, Leno called them on stage; her father’s shirt had large visible stains. Leno said to her, “I see where you get your dress sense.”

Still she insists:

“I’m not being modest or whatever, but I think I just look better in casual clothes…I feel like a transvestite when I’m all dressed up.”

“I do like dressing up as a treat, to feel like a princess…If I did it all the time, dressed up with makeup, when I didn’t do it people would be like, ‘Oh my God, did you see what she was wearing, and no makeup?’ But if you dress like this all the time” — Silverman tugs at her tube socks — “and then you put on a little dress, people are like, ‘Heyyy, look at you!’ ”