What Sarah Sherman Can’t Live Without
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If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what everyday stuff famous people add to their carts — likehair sprayor anelectric toothbrush. We asked comedian Sarah Sherman — who recently partnered withJohn Fluevogto design apair of boots— about the ruler suspenders, funky perfume, and collectible cards she can’t live without.
The ruler suspenders that provide accurate measurements
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I think I saw these at an Ace Hardware. I always have them with me, because I like to wear big clown pants. I’ve never gotten anything tailored. Instead of buying clothes that fit, I just buy big clown clothes that don’t fit, so the suspenders come in handy.
One time someone was like,Oh, I need to measure the circumference of your neck.Because I was doing a head-exploding gag and they were making a model of my head to explode it. I was editing my special in an editing bay, and there weren’t any rulers around. But then I was like,Wait, my suspenders. It was so easy. I just wrapped it around my neck. It’s extremely accurate, obviously, because they’re for carpenters.
Her signature scent that’s an acquired taste
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This is my smell. I’ve smelled like this for years. To me it smells like balsamic vinegar and wet dirt and piss. I’ve smelled a couple people in the wild wearing it too. At first it just registers asOh my God, that person smells amazing. And then I’ll be like,Oh my God, that person smells like me.I was onstage during the good-nights portion ofSNLand I smelled it on the leather jacket of one of the band members of the band Mk.gee, who was the musical guest of the episode. It’s a very interesting group of people who wear it.
I was getting a refill because I go through these bottles like crazy and I noticed the patchouli wasn’t as dark brown, and when I sprayed it, it didn’t leave a sticky residue on the bottle. That’s what you want. They had reformulated to make it less stinky. So now I hoard all the bottles of the old formula. If I find a half-empty bottle on eBay, I’ll buy it. I’ve bought a bottle that had literally one inch of it left.
Another favorite scent that’s a little more crowd-pleasing
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When I want to smell more like a girl, I’ll wear this. The Santa Maria Novella, that’s not a compliment getter. If I get in the elevator wearing that, the old formulation, I’ll get like comments like, “Whoa, patchouli.” But when I wear the Marissa Zappas perfume, I get comments like, “Whoa, you smell amazing.” I’m obsessed with all of her perfumes. I own all of them, but this is her only patchouli-based scent, and it smells like a beautiful woman to me.
Her top-two picks for minty black licorice
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I was doing a movie in Canada, and everyone was so French. I don’t know how it came up, but my rider for my dressing room always has black licorice, Saltines, Diet Coke, and Pedialyte. My makeup artist was like, “I also am addicted to black licorice.” She had this tin on her, and the way it opens is really fun. It’s like a little circle disc, and you have to rotate it. Inside, there’s little black licorice shards that you empty out into your hand. They’re black licorice-y, but also minty. You just need one little tiny shard, but it just overwhelms your whole mouth and body with black licorice and mint. So I bought a case of that in Canada that I’ve been slowly going through, and then I looked it up and they don’t make them anymore. They’re discontinued. But you can getold cases that people have, so I’m doing the same thing as with the patchouli. I have this other Italian black licorice that I’ll settle for calledChips. They’re also small, hard, minty, chewy black licorice. But it’s not the same.
The nostalgic trading cards she’s collected for years
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I have a tattoo on my leg of one of the Garbage Pail Kids, Sara Slime. I’ve been collecting the cards for a while, and once people know that you like them, they give them to you. I feel special because they mean a lot to people, like people collected them throughout their childhood. So when people give me some of their Garbage Pail Kids, I feel honored.
You can buy them in a pack, but usually people just give me loosies.
I have a lot of them. They’re all scattered about. I have stacks of them just on my desk. I have one as my bookmark in my book. I have one in the back of my phone case. I have some in my wallet if I want to give someone a little surprise gift. I have them taped up to my mirror in my dressing room. I have them pinned up to the wall and my cork board. They’re all over the place.
The sunglasses Hannah Einbinder turned her on to
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I’m wearing these right now. I was with Hannah Einbinder in Vegas doing a show, and she was in a casino smoking a cigarette wearing these sunglasses inside, and I needed them immediately. You can choose the color and the shape of the lenses. There’s an old Dick Cavett interview with Robert Mitchum where he’s blackout drunk and crazy and he’s wearing these gray-blue sunglasses. So I was like,That’s what I wanna look like.
Prescription sunglasses are the first kind of fancy thing I bought when I started getting paid forSNL. All my blind heads know that’s such a luxurious purchase. But then I loved them so much I ended up wearing them as glasses all the time. And when I’m wearing them indoors, like at a restaurant or seeing friends or at work, I feel kind of rude. But I also feel so fucking cool, like a movie star.
I sat on them once and almost blew my brains out. I was so depressed, but then they fixed them at the store. People are always like, “Are those transition lenses?”And I get so offended by that for some reason.
The only deodorant that works for her
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I always wear deodorant. When people are like, “Oh, I forgot to put on deodorant today,”I am like,That’s never happened to me. I’ve never forgotten.If I don’t wear deodorant, it’s a problem. I don’t want to hear like, “Oh, it’s bad for you. It causes cancer.” It’s the only deodorant that works. Everything else makes me stink. Nothing else works. And it blends really well with my patchouli.
The eclectic, goes-with-everything shoes she designed
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I literally drew a picture of the shoe that I wanted to make and John Fluevog made it. I mean, the design team obviously made it better than my drawing, but I was like, “This is a shoe that I’ve always wanted.” I’ve always wanted a Raggedy Ann, Shelley Duvall boot. And even though they’re crazy colors, I swear to God they match with everything. Anytime I have to do anything kind of fancy, they’re my go-to shoe. I’m not just saying this because it’s my shoe, but I swear to God they’re so comfortable. You could walk a mile down a cobblestone lane in them. It’s because they’re platforms, so your foot isn’t on a crazy arch. They’re like a wood clog.
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