Webthe moment likely seems innocuous from the outside.

Websilverman built a career on being provocative.

But the new film i smile back is a drama, in which she plays a woman who suffers from profound depression.

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At 22, she got what looked to be her big break:

Silverman and her snl castmate chris farley had arrived at rehearsal early that day.

The two waited on.

Now 47, she has been performing stand up since she was 19.

Websilverman was 13 when she hit her first wave of depression, she explains, after coming home from a school camping trip and having something shift inside.

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