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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman Gets the Ax
Looks like there will be no follow up to “Wowshwitz,” this year’s season finale of “The Sarah Silverman Program,” which just got axed from Comedy Central. Deadline Hollywood reports that Comedy Central did not renew the show for a fourth season despite a Twitter campaign to keep it alive. The show was on the chopping…
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Life No More Sukkah, Time for Hanukkah and the Spinagogue
Proving that Jewish consumer culture is devouring the calendar every bit as voraciously as any other culture in America, Modern Tribe has just sent out notice of the home they have built for the dreidel — the “Spinagogue.” Homelessness and hunger are indeed terrible problems in our world. Glad that Sarah Silverman and Modern Tribe…
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Life Disgraceful New Sarah Silverman Vatican Video Veers into Political Satire
Sarah Silverman has really done it now. She’s moved from the gentle humor of “I’m f***|ing Matt Damon” and the cerebral politics of the “Great Shlep” to shameless self-promotion of her site, Sell The Vatican. On that site you can see her flaunt her ideas, call herself a “genius” and show a soft-focus picture of…
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Life Sarah Silverman Channels Al Jolson
Daily News gossip Ben Widdicombe reports: Preview copies of the next season of “The Sarah Silverman Program,” to air next month, are already raising eyebrows. In one of the first installments, the comedian gets a rise out of wearing blackface. “The theme is, Sarah is rejected from a club because she’s a Jew,” says a…
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Film & TV Borat in Rehab, Eva Mendes’s Jew Fetish and Other Tales From the MTV Movie Awards
For one night, at least, MTV may as well have been the Jewish Television Network. Yesterday’s MTV Movie Awards had an unusually large number of young, hip celebrity Jews taking center-stage. The show was hosted by comedian-of-the-moment Sarah Silverman, who, in typical faux-innocent fashion, mercilessly roasted Paris Hilton (conveniently in attendance). Silverman noted — to…
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