There are parts of Sarah Sherman’s new comedy special, Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh , that will feel intimately familiar to students of stand-up. As she cavorts onstage, the loose physicality of her alter-ego Sarah Squirm calls to mind fellow Saturday Night Live alum Gilda Radner , and some of her best jokes are punctuated with Seinfeld riffs. In terms of her material, though, Sherman is absolutely doing her own thing, serving up tonally wild yet genuinely thoughtful bits about everything from mammograms to politics (“I’m a cool Jew. I believe in a free Palestine…of course I do, I’m Jewish and it’s free”).

Ahead of the special’s release on December 12, Vogue nabbed some time with Sherman in between SNL rehearsals to talk about successfully shooting her shot with John Wa

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