Sarah Jane Anastasia Silverman, a.k.a. Sarah St. Clair (Sarah Silverman) – The main character who is extremely childish and immature and exhibits a lack of diplomacy or sensitivity to others. She often acts impulsively, oblivious to anyone or anything else. Sarah does not have a job as she hates and refuses to work and attacks anyone who tells her to get a job, so her sister Laura pays her rent. Sarah is very close to Laura, and she has a dog named Doug, whom she found in the trash. Her favorite TV show is Cookie Party!, a (fictional) cooking competition in which contestants have a cookie bakeoff, voted on by the viewers and hosted by drag-queen "Mini Coffee" and his puppet sidekick Ookie. Sarah enjoys watching the show with Laura as a weekly ritual, and they even went on the show as contestants.[5] Sarah despises her sister's boyfriend (later husband) Jay, a policeman, and frequently says so. She retaliates by attempting to undermine their relationship, sometimes in a jealous manner. Sarah attended Valley Village High School with Brian, Steve, and Laura. Sarah and Laura's parents, Max and Rose Silverman, died when they were young (Rose's tombstone says she died in 1986 when Sarah was 10; Max later turns up alive and stalking Larry Bird at a book-signing). Sarah's jobless, careless-yet-comfortable lifestyle is usually a major part of the show's plot, along with constant episodes of humiliation at Laura's expense, despite Sarah's total dependence on her hard-working sister. Her young version in memories is played by Laura Marano.
Laura Jane Silverman III (Laura Silverman) – Sarah's younger sister (in real life, her older sister), is a registered nurse. Their parents died when they were young, and Sarah is Laura's only family. Laura is very susceptible to guilt, making Sarah's manipulation of her remarkably easy. She is more responsible than Sarah and devotes most of her life to taking care of her. In the first episode, she tells Jay that she can eat 30 hard-boiled eggs in one sitting. She used to have a large amount of pubic hair (like her mother) until she shaves it all off in the episode "Patriot Tact" after her mother comes to her in a vision to tell her it is all right to shave. She falls in love with Jay in the first episode. She attended Valley Village High School with Brian, Steve, and Sarah.
ブライアン・ダミアン・スプコウスキー(ブライアン・ポセーン)は、サラのゲイの隣人で友人であり、スティーブと交際している。彼は熱狂的なメタル好きだが、5年前のiPodに入っている曲はスピン・ドクターズの「Two Princes 」だけだ。ブライアンは、メタルばかり聴いて気が狂わないように、この曲を口直しにしているのだと主張している。第1話では、彼はバイセクシャルだと告白し、スティーブとの間に緊張が生じる。サラが車を衝突させて死にかけたことで、ブライアンは考えを改め、スティーブに自分がゲイのままだと告げる。ブライアンは空手のレッスンを受けているが、必要だと思うときだけその技を使う(「Humanitarian of the Year」のエピソードでは、スティーブを守るために使うことはなかった)。彼とスティーブは、ローラとジェイとダブルデートをすることがあり、内心ではそれを恐れている。ブライアンは、サラ、スティーブ、ローラと同じバレー・ビレッジ高校に通っていた。彼とスティーブは、「Nightmayor」のエピソードで結婚する。
Officer Jay McPherson (Jay Johnston) – A police officer who is dating Sarah's sister Laura. Jay met Laura when he arrested Sarah for driving her car into a playground sandbox after drinking too much cough syrup and passing out. Jay is also a closet performer in the genre of sentimental "gentle comedy" character sketches. Jay dislikes Sarah and calls her "the cuckoo clown" (in the episode "Positively Negative"), but he is so devoted to Laura that he will go out of his way to help Sarah, even when she vows to kill him. Jay won a "Humanitarian of the Year" award for reading to blind people. Growing up, he never celebrated his birthday because his mother told him that every day was his birthday (to cover up her beer and cake addiction, which ended up killing her on Jay's actual birthday). Jay has a brown moustache, which Sarah frequently insults or at least mentions in episode introductions. In "Muffin' Man", Jay mentions that his partner, Officer Paul Tompkins, has been suspended for opening fire on a Hispanic youth who pulled a pellet gun on him, and that he had received a temporary new partner named Tig (Tig Notaro) who is a lesbian. Jay was also very attached to his pet turtle, Toot, whom Sarah shot to death in the episode "Pee". In season two it was revealed that he had an uncle who was killed by an electric eel. He proposed to Laura on the second-season finale.
Doug – Doug is Sarah's "Chihuahua-pug mix",[6] pet dog that she found in the trash. Most episodes conclude with Sarah telling Doug her overall reaction to the episode's events, even if he's sleeping. He is played by Sarah Silverman's real-life pet dog, Duck.[7]
Recurring characters
Heather Silverman (Laura Marano) - A greedy young orphan Sarah misrepresents as her daughter to use her to win the Little Miss Rainbow pageant in "Not Without My Daughter".
Armen (Armen Weitzman) – A soft-spoken clerk at the Fan-Tasti-Mart whom Brian and Steve talk to during their various fights. He became Sarah's friend in "Making New Friends".
Eddie (Eddie Pepitone) – The cook at Romanski's, the restaurant Sarah and her friends frequent.
God (Tucker Smallwood) – He has a one-night stand with Sarah in "Batteries", then rekindles their relationship in "Ah, Men".
Mini Coffee (Rob Schrab) – "Valley Village's own Southern Belle", the host of Cookie Party.
The complete series was released on DVD in 2012. The series is available in open matte16:9high definition on various online retailers. The blackface-themed episode "Face Wars" from the second season is not available online.
DVD releases
Soundtrack
A soundtrack album was released on March 2, 2010 entitled From Our Rears to Your Ears. It contains 99 tracks from the show's three seasons.
The show's premiere drew 1.8 million total viewers and 1.3 with the 18–49 demographic.[11] The show had the single best debut ratings "for a Comedy Central original since the premiere of the animated series Drawn Together (2.2 million viewers) in 2004."[12] On February 12, 2007, eleven days after the show's premiere, Comedy Central announced that it had "ordered 16 new episodes for air this fall and next spring." The network claimed the early pickup was because in its first two weeks, "[the show] was the most-watched cable show in primetime among all key demos." Comedy Central called it "its most successful primetime launch in three years."[13]