TENACIOUS D, FOO FIGHTERS KATRINA BENEFIT SAVED BY SILVERMAN?

Sarah Silverman was one of the comedians on hand at a Katrina benefit last Thursday (September 22) at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. The all-star concert also featured Foo Fighters, Josh Homme’s Eagles Of Death Metal, and Fiona Apple amonng others. The headliner was concert organizer Jack Black, who fronts his comedy-music hybrid band Tenacious D.

The musicians and commedians performed until late in the night and it culminated in an all-star jam at the end, which Silverman said was probably one of the highlights of her life.

“We did a Katrina benefit at the Wiltern and it was… I got to be on it. It was Fiona Apple, Bob and David from Mr. Show, Foo Fighters, Josh Homme from Queens Of The Stone Age and Tenacious D and Dave Grohl. It was just the greatest night ever and then at the end we took a bow and Jack was like, ‘Let’s Jam!!’ And then Dave Grohl got on the drums and he threw me a tambourine, and I really played it, like, I think I was good at it, like a natural. I really tried anyway. And we just made up a song and Jack would come around and we’d sing, it was just really, whatever. It was awesome.”

If Silverman looks familiar, she should be. She played the pestering girlfriend of Jack Black in the movie School Of Rock.