'Saturday Night Live' #TBT: Sarah Silverman Flies the Unfriendly Skies
When Sarah Silverman hosts Saturday Night Live this weekend, it’ll mark a triumphant return for the comedian.
In 1993, she joined the cast as a 22-year-old writer and performer — but none of the sketches she wrote made it to air, and Silverman was fired after one season.
Well, despite that inauspicious start, Silverman went on to a long career on television, in movies, and on stage. She’s won two Emmys, the most recent of which was for writing her HBO comedy special Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles.
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Silverman now brings her unique brand of comedy back to SNL. We dug through the archives to find one of the sketches she performed back in the day — and it’s a corker. In this 1994 classic, Helen Hunt and David Spade play flight attendants on Total Bastard Airlines.
As passengers exit the airplane, Hunt and Spade snidely say, “Buh-bye.” Have a question about a connection? Buh-bye. Try to explain where you’re from? Buh-bye.
When Silverman gets to them, though, she isn’t having it. Watch the sketch below:
Sarah Silverman hosts Saturday Night Live this Saturday at 11:30 p.m. on NBC.
