Sarah Silverman was a featured player and writer for “Saturday Night Live” for only one season in the early 1990s, but she was there long enough to violently assault a future senator of the United States.
The comedienne, who hosts the NBC staple this weekend, recreated for Seth Meyers on “Late Night” how she came to stab a pencil into Al Franken‘s head.
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It was in the writers’ room, while they were working on the show. She recalled that it was winter because Franken “had a really big Jewfro,” she explained, turning to the audience to add with a smile, “They grow them for the winter.”