Webthe moment likely seems innocuous from the outside. Silverman and her snl castmate chris farley had arrived at rehearsal early that day. The two waited on. But the new film i smile back is a drama, in which she plays a woman who suffers from profound depression. 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. Websilverman built a career on being provocative. Now 47, she has been performing stand up since she was 19. At 22, she got what looked to be her big break: