"The thing about Sandler is all of his jokes are really surreal, absurdist storytelling. He tells jokes that are grosser than things that I have in the hour,"
"As a maximalist and a punisher, I've always left everything out on the ice. I'd make myself hyperventilate on stage; I'd be out of breath and literally wind myself, then I have to keep doing an hour more of material after that,"
"Listen, I'm no spring chicken. I'm happy to put that one to rest and go back and forth between styles [of comedy] to keep people entertained."
"I have to keep a silica packet in my underwear to keep the old meat from going bad,"
Sarah Sherman combines body-horror aesthetics, gross-out characters, and absurdist storytelling in her stand-up. Touring as an opener for Adam Sandler exposed her to surreal, dad-joke delivery that embeds filth within gentle pacing. Sherman staged a debut special on HBO Max with theatrical design elements like fake guts and a toilet-based opening joke while practicing greater restraint to avoid exhausting herself. She previously performed in maximalist bursts that left her hyperventilating and burned out. Sherman now alternates styles, using tightly crafted, sometimes subtle setups alongside explicit, grotesque bits—exemplified by a silica-packet joke that mixes dad-joke structure with disgust.
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