Sarah Silverman, Drake, and the Jewish Mother Fantasy
Drake has a crush on Sarah Silverman. The Canadian rapper—the person your mother brings up constantly to show you there are all kinds of cute Jewish boys in the world, not just the ones you went to Hebrew school with you—posted a photo of Silverman’s SNL headshot to his Instagram feed. (Photos of former cast members famously line the hallways at the august Studio 8H at 30 Rock, where the show is shot, and where Drake played host a few weeks ago.) He added the caption: “I do” along with an emoji of a twinkling diamond ring. As they say in Fiddler on the Roof, it’s a match!
On a recent episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers, the host, who’s also an SNL alum, asked Silverman for her thoughts on this unlikely pairing. Drake, after all, has been “linked to” glamorpusses, such as Rihanna, Zoë Kravitz, and Nicki Minaj. Silverman, on the other hand, said she was notified of Drake’s infatuation with her by “my young comedian friends who call me ‘Mom.’” But Silverman was unfazed.
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