Sarah Silverman recalls her dad telling her that he believes her brother died by being shaken as an infant by her grandfather.

Silverman’s new Netflix special, PostMortem, deals with her parents’ deaths. Her mother Beth died in 2015, while her father Donald died in 2023. Silverman has two sisters, Susan and Laura, the latter of whom once played her sister on The Sarah Silverman Project .

“My dad had a heartbreaking childhood,” Silverman told the publication. “His dad beat the s**t out of him every day, just mercilessly. He had a younger brother who wasn’t touched. His father made the kids call him Mr. Silverman.”