...at nursery school

Plus ça change…

Even as a very young child, Sarah Silverman was familiar with swear words – telling her nursery schoolmates that foul language was OK in the confines of your own home.

And she’s not been allowed to forget the story – because Adam Sandler’s mum was her nursery school teacher.

Appearing on Conan O’Brien’s TBS show this week, Silverman revealed how her family and Sandler’s were close as she grew up in New Hampshire.

‘I really didn’t know Adam until we were more grown-ups, living in New York,’ she said. ‘But my sister Laura was his age. Our parents were friends and his mum was my nursery school teacher.’

She revealed that when she and Sandler appeared together at Los Angeles comedy club  Largo recently, ‘he went on stage and told this story about me that I have never heard before’.

‘His mum tells a story where she says a little girl in nursery school says a swear. She was scolding her and saying, "we don’t talk like that here." 

‘I must have overheard it, so I leaned in and  go, "Those are ‘at home’ words."’

Published: 7 Jun 2017