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Sarah Sherman’s HBO Stand-Up ‘Live + In The Flesh’ Premieres Dec. 12

A theater-built stage vision gives her first filmed hour its deliberately grotesque look.

Overview

  • The hour is Sherman’s first filmed stand-up and arrives on HBO on December 12.
  • She partnered with the Dots collective on intentionally gross set pieces, including a slime-green door styled as a butthole with a hand-shaped handle.
  • Filmmaker John Waters makes a cameo after Sherman sent him a letter and received a confirming call from a Baltimore number.
  • Key SNL collaborators handled costume, makeup, and hair, with a foam clown tie by Mondo Guerra that she describes as gender-affirming.
  • Sherman says she cut roughly half an hour in post to tighten a “bloated” taped hour.