Comedian: End world hunger? Sell the Vatican

Comedian Sarah Silverman has a new proposal for ending world hunger: Sell the Vatican.

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Best bets: ‘Funny People’ looks for laughs

Hollywood’s favorite filmmaker, Judd Apatow, returns with his third film, Adam Sandler stars as a comedian suffering from what he believes to be a fatal disease — until it goes into remission. Seth Rogen co-stars as a not-quite-as-funny comic who becomes both his assistant and best pal. The premise sounds a bit maudlin, but Apatow is one of the few directors who really knows how to balance laughs with heart. The movie also features the comic talents of Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman, Sarah Silverman and Norm McDonald. (Opens July 31)

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Hoffman, Hopper among Critics' Choice presenters

Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Hopper, Dakota Fanning and Sarah Silverman are set to join the star-studded list of presenters at the Critics' Choice Awards.

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Sarah Silverman's comic video tries to boost Obama

Viewed by millions, comedian Sarah Silverman's humorous, profanity-strewn plea for young Jews to persuade their grandparents to vote for Barack Obama is an Internet sensation. Can it turn laughs into votes in swing states like Florida?

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Leading Israelis say they were duped into Obama ad

Three Israeli security figures said Monday they were duped into taking part in an ad supporting Barack Obama made by the same group that was behind comedian Sarah Silverman's "Great Schlep."

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Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman end romance

Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have broken up, their publicists said Monday. "Jimmy and Sarah have no further comment," Kimmel's spokesman Lewis Kay told The Associated Press, confirming the split that was first reported on Vanity Fair magazine's Web site.

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Silverman Discusses Spears Jokes at VMAs

Sarah Silverman still is responding to the negative reaction to her Britney Spears jokes at the MTV Video Music Awards. "The joke that everyone was upset about — me calling the kids `adorable mistakes' — was the most innocuous joke," the 36-year-old comedian tells Us Weekly magazine in the issue that comes out Friday. "It never occurred to me that would be deemed hurtful or over the line."

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Among other things, 2008 will be remembered as the year that professionally produced Web video finally trumped amateurs with webcams.

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"Is that an edgy joke, or a racist joke?," Silverman muses during her 2005 concert film Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic after one particular barrage of anti-Asian humor.

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She bombed as a guest on Jonathan Ross's show on Friday night and now Sarah Silverman has flopped on stage too.

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Sarah Silverman for The Great Schlep.

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Sarah Silverman's You Tube video urges viewers to visit their grandparents in Florida and convince them to vote for Obama. Parental guidance suggested. Well, you know how she gets sometimes...

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Manishewitz Gubermann. Like that one.

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Happy New Year! And now back to our regularly scheduled political programming (NSFWish):

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If you haven't visited Sarah Silverman's the Great Schlep Web site, it's must-see Web TV. (NSFW warning: The video includes the sort of raunchy language for which the brilliant Silverman is famous.)

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The Great Schlep aims to have Jewish grandchildren visit their grandparents in Florida, educate them about Obama, and therefore swing the crucial Florida vote in his favor.

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Sarah Silverman & Leonardo DiCaprio: "Don't Vote" ..Sarah Silverman and Jonah Hill can make even a voting PSA funny... See more irresistible headlines

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Short of committing Oprahcide, most of these gals figured they'd never make it into Vanity Fair. When Annie Leibovitz came calling, they put on their worst behavior.

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The idea that women aren't funny—and which male said that?—seems pretty laughable these days. TV has unleashed a new generation of comediennes, who act, perform stand-up, write, and direct—dishing out the jokes with a side of sexy.

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First, Sarah Silverman made a hilarious music video for boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel called "I'm F***ing Matt Damon." Then Kimmel countered with a response called "I'm F***ing Ben Affleck," which upped the ante and became a "We Are The World" spoof, complete with cameos by Brad Pitt, R …

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A satiric video in which Jimmy Kimmel talks enthusiastically — jokingly, we are led to believe — about his sexual relationship with Ben Affleck, has been a huge hit online.

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Sarah Silverman left boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel and the viral world stunned when she declared -- in hysterical song -- that she was "F---ing Matt Damon." Now it's Kimmel's turn, and as it turns out, Damon is close pals with his tryst.

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Just call it payback time for Matt Damon. PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive became an instant YouTube sensation on Friday following his duet with comedian Sarah Silverman, as she revealed to her boyfriend, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel: "I'm f---ing Matt Damon."

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I think the topic says it all. Please enjoy Sarah Silverman with Matt Damon. And to Jimmy - I was laughing, but inside I felt sorry.

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Endlessly mocked in the mainstream news media and the blogosphere, Sunday night's fiasco has left Britney Spears's fans and her handlers bewildered.

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With an emphasis on the visual over the audio, MTV from its inception has never been "about the music." But after seeing interest in its signature trophy show wane in recent years, the network put the spotlight where it belongs for a music awards show: on the concert stage.

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Speaking at the VMA awrds after Britney's performance... "Wasn't that incredible? Britney Spears, everyone. Wow. She is amazing. She is 25-years-old and she's already accomplished everything she's going to accomplish in her life. It's mind blowing." and

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Sarah Silverman joins forces with the Center for American Progress to promote flex fuels. Also co-stars Matt Damon and Jennifer Garner (Affleck appears in another one in this series). But this is the funniest

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Before Paris went to jail, Sarah Silverman laid into her in this clip from MTV. The thing is that Paris was sitting right in the audience.

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What are you watching on TV this summer?

A friend of mine recently complained that now that all the season finales were over, his Tivo was empty. What was he going to do for the next three months? I told him to look to his nearest cable network for some pretty cool shows to fill his summer void.

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Multichannel News reports that the Parents Television Council is protesting the season finale of The Sarah Silverman Program, angry that the lack of a la carte cable channel choices makes it all too easy for impressionable children to stumble upon blasphemous programming concerni …

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Yet, for every step forward, say many comics and cultural observers, when it comes to being funny, women still face many societal prejudices. Nice girls just don't act like that, says comedy veteran Rusty Warren, who recalls male audience members storming out of her shows.

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