Sarah Silverman to Headline Vulture Festival Comedy Night This May

Vulture.com, New York magazine's culture and entertainment site, today announced Sarah Silverman & Friends will perform at the 2016 Vulture Festival Comedy Night, taking place at BAM on Sunday, May 22, at 8 p.m. Tickets will go on sale Wednesday, March 30, at 12 p.m., starting at $47, and can be purchased at

bam.org/vulturefest. Additional performers on the Sarah Silverman & Friends show will be announced in the coming weeks. Comedy Night is being produced in collaboration with Carolines on Broadway.

Vulture Festival is a series of high-profile events celebrating the best of today's television, music, film, and more. The festival will take place on May 21-22 in New York City, centered at Milk Studios, and with additional events at other venues across the city. The full festival lineup will be announced on Monday, April 18, and will encompass two unforgettable days of panels and performances, including live podcasts, script readings, cast reunions, in-depth conversations, and even a Broadway sing-along. Follow @VultureFestival and @Vulture for updates.

Official sponsors for the festival include DirecTV, TNT, and Casper.

ABOUT SARAH SILVERMAN: Two-time Emmy winner Sarah Silverman is as versatile of a performer as they come. Her repertoire includes everything from film and television, stand-up comedy, to iconic online videos, and she added author to this list when she released a book in 2010, the New York Times Bestseller, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee. Silverman will next be seen starring in the drama feature, I Smile Back, a film adaption of a novel by Amy Koppelman in which she plays the lead role. The film premiered at Sundance and will be released later this year by Broad Green Pictures. She will also soon be seen in Ashby opposite Mickey Rourke and Emma Roberts, and she's in production on The Top Secret Untitled Lonely Island Movie, which is set to release next summer. Additionally, she has wrapped production on comedy pilot for HBO, which she executive produced and stars in as a pathologically honest woman having a modern midlife crisis, and she has a recurring role on the Golden Globe nominated Showtime series "Masters of Sex." Silverman is also a part of JASH, a comedy collective on Youtube featuring original content by Silverman and friends Michael Cera, Tim & Eric and Reggie Watts.

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