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Can the Left Get the Last Laugh?

By: Meagan Day

As SNL’s resident body-horror comic, Sarah Sherman brings Bernie-era politics — and stubborn optimism — into a moment defined by ICE raids, massive inequality, and creeping authoritarianism.

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“I’m very sensitive. I’m afraid of seeing the video,” Sarah Sherman tells me in the days after federal agents killed a second protester in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sherman, a stand-up comedian whose over-the-top body horror under the stage name Sarah Squirm has earned her a spot in the cast of Saturday Night Live and, recently, her […]

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“I’m very sensitive. I’m afraid of seeing the video,” Sarah Sherman tells me in the days after federal agents killed a second protester in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sherman, a stand-up comedian whose over-the-top body horror under the stage name Sarah Squirm has earned her a spot in the cast of Saturday Night Live and, recently, her […]

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“I’m very sensitive. I’m afraid of seeing the video,” Sarah Sherman tells me in the days after federal agents killed a second protester in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sherman, a stand-up comedian whose over-the-top body horror under the stage name Sarah Squirm has earned her a spot in the cast of Saturday Night Live and, recently, her […]

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“I’m very sensitive. I’m afraid of seeing the video,” Sarah Sherman tells me in the days after federal agents killed a second protester in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sherman, a stand-up comedian whose over-the-top body horror under the stage name Sarah Squirm has earned her a spot in the cast of Saturday Night Live and, recently, her […]