Editing Sam Seder (section)

== Personal life ==
===Early life and education===
Seder was born to a Jewish family in [[New York City]], and raised in [[Worcester, Massachusetts]], and is the oldest of three children.<ref name="D4Vxd" /><ref name="2sWNN" /> His father, J. Robert Seder, is a well-known lawyer in Worcester. Seder earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in [[Religious Studies]] from [[Connecticut College]] and enrolled at [[Boston University School of Law]]. Disillusioned by the school's commercialized culture, he dropped out of studying law to pursue a career in comedy.<ref name="2sWNN" /> Seder became involved in the Boston comedy scene, associating with [[Janeane Garofalo|Janeane Garofalo]], [[David Cross]], [[Marc Maron]] and [[Sarah Silverman]], whom he dated. These connections were used in his first film, ''Who's the Caboose?'', which then led to Seder's appearances on comedy TV shows.<ref name="2sWNN" />

===Adult life and independence===
On August 9, 2005, Seder's wife Nicole Cattell gave birth to their first child, daughter Myla Rae.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiG76k6x48w|title=Sam's Daughter ROCKS Global Climate Change Strike|date=September 20, 2019|website=YouTube|access-date=August 3, 2022}}</ref> On March 7, 2013, she gave birth to their second child, son Saul.<ref name="IyJ7l" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/samseder/status/442014403026644992|title=Happy First Birthday to my son, Saul. I wish him a happy healthy and "sleep more please" year.|first=Sam|last=Seder|date=March 7, 2014|publisher=[[Twitter]]|access-date=August 3, 2022}}</ref> On April 27, 2018, Seder announced that the couple were separated.<ref name="Dvm1r" /> He later announced they had divorced.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Seder |first=Sam |date=2022-06-21 |title=post |url=https://x.com/SamSeder/status/1539453747365027840 |archive-date= |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=X}}</ref> Seder is a [[Reform Judaism|Reform Jew]] and has no problem with religion in general, but is opposed to [[religious fundamentalism]] and [[theocracy]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://forward.com/culture/702952/sam-seder-debate-trump-christian-nationalism-nazi/|title=Debating a Jew, Trump supporters endorse America's 'European and Christian' identity|last=Fox|first=Mira|publisher=[[The Forward]]|quote=Seder is a Reform Jew, he told one of his first opponents; he has no beef with religion. “The problem I have with religious fundamentalists, and really I guess it’s theocrats, is that they want to impose their morality which comes from their religion,” he said. “I don’t think that you have the right to corner what God is telling us is right and wrong, and there’s differences between religions.”|date=March 11, 2025|accessdate=March 12, 2025}}</ref>