Sarah Silverman lands HBO comedy special and late-night pilot after blackface scandal: ‘Nothing’s off the table’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sarah Silverman has landed a comedy special and a late-night series pilot at HBO after the recent backlash over a photograph of her in blackface. In August, the comedian revealed she was fired from an unspecified film after producers unearthed an old photograph in which she sports blackface in a sketch from her 2007 comedy series The Sarah Silverman Programme. In a statement announcing the late-night pilot, which she will executive-produce with Judd Apatow and Amy Zvi, Silverman said: “I’m as passionate talking about my face-washing routine as I am talking about why billionaires cost us money. I mean, look at my face, I’m literally all brow.” Silverman is currently shooting opposite Jennifer Lopez in the forthcoming romantic comedy Marry Me and is adapting her memoir The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee into a musical that will premiere in 2020.