- - Sarah Sherman Shares the Feedback “SNL” Costar Bowen Yang Gave Her After Watching Her Comedy Special (Exclusive)

Brenton BlanchetDecember 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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Sarah Sherman is revealing how Bowen Yang reacted to her new comedy special, and the kind feedback her gave her after its premiere

The Saturday Night Live star tells PEOPLE that Yang came out to support her new project, Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh

The special started streaming on HBO on Dec. 12

Sarah Sherman was sitting behind Bowen Yang during the premiere of her new comedy special earlier this month — and his reaction said it all.

"He was screaming like, 'No,' because there's a lot of gross stuff," the Saturday Night Live star tells PEOPLE, laughing.

Yang was one of a handful of SNL cast members and alumni who came out to support Sherman for the release of Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh, her debut comedy special from HBO. The special, which officially arrived on Dec. 12, is a mix of Sherman's signature body horror and overall gross-out comedy. It's not exactly the stuff she does weekly on SNL, which is why Yang's feedback meant a lot to her.

"Bowen was like, 'This is just so you,' " Sherman, 32, says. "You know what I mean? That's all you could ever hope for is that you've created a project with all these amazing people who are all so talented."

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Bowen Yang, Jack Black and Sarah Sherman on Saturday Night Live on April 5, 2025

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"SNL is a really intimate job," she adds. "You get to know people really, really well, but you're creating work that fits in a certain type of ... you're writing work for a very specific show. So sometimes you don't get to see everybody's true artistic selves. You know people interpersonally pretty well, you know people's comedic voices really well. But I don't know the extent sometimes of people's full artistic visions."

Now, Sherman's artistic vision is out there and she hopes it gets fans laughing (and they can "maybe gag a little bit").

Also during her conversation with PEOPLE, Sherman explains that being "gross" is "inseparable from being alive" for her.

"And so much of the special is like, I'm a living cartoon and maybe that's a little bit of what the Sarah Squirm character is," she says. "It's like a living cartoon, but she's very much alive and made of flesh and bones and skin and guts and that's ... yeah."

She adds, "And that's another thing, the relatability of the special, it's like I'm talking about things that everyone can relate to. I don't have some gross disease that 1% of the population has. I have the gross disease of having too much body hair."

Over on SNL, she's been a cast member since 2021, kicking off her tenure three years after Yang, 35, joined the cast officially in 2019. In September, after a series of notable departures ahead of the show's 51st season, Yang told PEOPLE that he felt like he still had "more to do" on SNL.

However, on the Dec. 20 episode of the show, hosted by Ariana Grande, Yang marked his departure from SNL. He addressed the exit in an Instagram post, ahead of his final appearance on the show. "I loved working at SNL, and most of all I loved the people. I was there at a time when many things in the world started to seem futile, but working at 30 rock taught me the value in showing up anyway when people make it worthwhile," he wrote in his caption.

"I’m grateful for every minute of my time there. I learned about myself (bad with wigs). I learned about others (generous, vulnerable, hot). I learned that human error can be nothing but correct. I learned that comedy is mostly logistics and that it will usually fail until it doesn’t, which is the besssst," Yang continued.

Sarah Squirm: Live + in the Flesh is now available to stream on HBO Max.

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