After Latelys Sarah Colonna Talks Plans For NBC Sitcom

First Published: November 17, 2011 4:25 PM EST Credit: Caption Sarah Colonna (left) and Sarah on the cover for her Feb 7, 2012-due book, Life As I Blow It (right)LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Chelsea Handler isnt the only funny lady coming to NBC. The network recently greenlit a pilot script from former Last Comic Standing semifinalist, the very funny Sarah Colonna. We have it set in a restaurant bar and grill in the south, Sarah told AccessHollywood.com of the scenery to Life As I Blow It, the sitcom inspired by her own roots growing up in Arkansas. You can get so many characters that way the people that work in restaurants and come in to restaurants, and the people that you run into that you have known forever, but you havent seen. And [in] that small town, youre waiting on your ex-boyfriend and his wife or whatever it is, so I think there can be a lot of fun aspects in that. Sarah, who appears on Chelsea Lately and After Lately (the latter of which finds her serving as a producer), said her late night E! boss is fully behind her upcoming venture, which if all things go as planned is expected to shoot during the 2012 pilot season. Shes excited and shes really supportive of it, Sarah said. The comedy, produced by Adam Sandlers Happy Madison and Sony Pictures Television, is based around Sarahs February 7-due memoir, Life As I Blow It: Tales of Love, Life & SexNot Necessarily in that Order. The comedian will star in the project, unless they replace me, she joked, as it features Sarah the character, navigating life in a small town where everyone knows each other or thinks they know each other and conversation can be too close for comfort. Oh yeah, people tell you exactly whats going on or they ask those questions where youre like, Wait, are we supposed to talk about that? We havent seen each other in years, she laughed. Its also shaping up to be a show about a single woman navigating old school values and her own modern ideas. Youre bumping into people who are like, Why arent you married with kids? And your family is sort of curious what youre gonna do with your life, but youre fine, she explained. A lot of people are trying to live a little more independently now in that atmosphere and I think they bump up against people going, Well, what are you doing? Why arent you doing what were doing and having children and settling down and all those things? So I think it would make an interesting story that people can relate to. It was just a few weeks ago that Sarah, a veteran of Last Comic Standing, got the news that her project had been picked up to pilot and she admitted she was cruising through Los Angeles traffic when the call came through. I did cry in my car on the phone. Totally dangerous. But hey, I was using hands-free so it was fine, she said. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.