Sacramento State students have now reached the third week of school, and for those insomniacs and late-nighters still up at 1:35 a.m. Friday night, it’s time to take a break from studying and catch a laugh on NBC’s edgy comedy, “Late Friday.”

The show airs from 1:35 to 2:35 a.m., and offers new and interesting performers each week. The format includes popular stand-up comedians, singing trio’s, and clips of the comedian’s fooling around before the show.

On the Feb. 2 telecast, comedian Dana Gould hosted comedic performances by Todd Barry, Sarah Silverman, Mike Siegel, Price, Nash and Bledien, and Andy Kindler.

“They come up with their sketches sitting around together and joking around,” said Dana Gould, while the camera focused in on various clips of the actors unzipping their pants behind the other performers practicing their sketches.

“Late Friday” has attracted an average of 1.6 million viewers since it’s premiere on Jan. 5, with a million of the viewers in the key adult 18-49 demographic.

“My favorite performer was Sarah Silverman because she is so quirky and full of adversity,” said Evelyn Gonzales, a sociology major at Sac State, who stayed up late to watch the show.

Sarah Silverman, who is a regular on David Letterman and Conan O’ Brien, and is also going to be in the upcoming movie “Say It Isn’t So”, delivered a variety of jokes ranging from kegel exercises to religious humor.

“I know your probably thinking I’m taking a weird pause but actually what I’m doing is kegel exercises,” said Silverman, “I’m exercising my vagina and none of you can tell!”

Another part of Sarah Silverman?s act included stories about her boyfriend and things they deal with because of their different religions.

“I wear this St. Christopher medal, I’m Jewish, and my boyfriend is Catholic, but it was so sweet the way he gave it to me,” said Silverman. “He said, if it doesn’t burn through my skin it will protect me.”

Other comedy acts such as Price, and Nash and Bleiden, did a musical skit together about a band titled “We Be Jazz”, every time a comedian would say something, the trio would back the sentence up with a repetitive “We be Jazz.”

“Late Friday” is taped at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, Ca. Lisa Leingang, vice president prime time series for NBC Studios, developed the show internally. Matt Kunitz (“Real World”) will serve as executive producer.

So if you are stressed out and in the mood for silly, versatile humor, put those books down and catch an hour of laughs on the show “Late Friday.”