Illustration: Sarah Kilcoyne

On Saturday Night Live , Sarah Sherman has played a woman covered in singing meatballs, a Jewish Elvis, and — last week — a drunk raccoon ribbing Colin Jost. But for Squirm-heads, she’s in her truest, most delightful form when she’s taking us through her own head: talking about some kind of disarmingly nasty body horror, complete with guttural sounds, clad in her famously bright, patterned, clown-adjacent wardrobe. In her HBO Max comedy special, Sarah Squirm: Live + In the Flesh , she likens oysters and their snotty slime to discharge. “People think I like gross shit, but the reason I do all this gross stuff is because I’m disgusted by it,” she says. “I’m literally disgusted by oysters. The texture is grotesque.” She’d happily trade oysters for her f

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