A few months ago comedian Todd Glass suffered a heart attack while performing on a Sarah Silverman and Friends show in LA. So, to help the burden of all those medical bills, Glass’ friends are producing a benefit show. David Spade has organized the event, rightfully titled the David Spade and Friends Comedy Benefit Show, and it features an excellent lineup: Sarah Silverman and Adam Carolla are just two of the big name comedians announced so far, with more to come in the next few days.
The show will take place on Aug. 31 at Largo (tickets here), the same place Glass suffered his heart attack. Tickets are $40. If you’re in the LA area, we highly recommend you make it out. And regardless of where you live, why not buy Todd’s album Thin Pig. Just click the image below.
This summer, three comedians (and one singer) in four cities will moderate environmental debates in Lexus’s newest promotion, “The Darker Side of Green.” After the success of the initial debate that Sarah Silverman moderated, Lexus decided to continue with the series.
Basically, the idea is that one environmentalist and one global warming skeptic go head to head in a debate. Mostly, though, the comedians make funny comments, like when Sarah Silverman told the crowd to shut the eff up during the debate she hosted. Sassy!
The rest of “The Darker Side of Green” starts today, July 8, in Los Angeles with Andy Samberg and will continue with Jamie Kennedy in Miami on July 20, Tracy Morgan in New York on July 27, and singer Mark McGrath (Sugar Ray) in Chicago on August 8.
Oh yeah, and this is all to promote the Lexus CT200h hybrid car, which is coming out next year. Don’t worry, though, they’re not going to bring it to the event, because it’s best to focus on the guy who did “Dick in a Box” when you’re selling cars to people with lots of money. Speaking of that, you can’t go to any of these events, unless you somehow land on the guest list. Good luck with that.
Related: This isn’t the first time Morgan has promoted a car this year. He lent his skills to Volkswagen during the Super Bowl.
Sarah Silverman took some time to write to congress recently. A vegetarian since the age of 10, Sarah is pushing to have the Healthy School Meals Act of 2010 passed; it’s an act that would help schools provide more fruits, veggies, and plant-based meals to students.
She writes, in part:
I’m positive we can make a difference. If we help children develop healthy habits early on, they’ll have a lower risk of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes in the future. And that would mean lower health care costs. See? Only good comes from this.
You can read Sarah’s full letter here, and if you want you can even click on the “call congress now” link to get some helpful tips on how to show support for the act yourself.
Hey! MTV released yet another video promo for their Movie Awards (June 6), hosted by Aziz Ansari. You know what we’re waiting for though– much more than another promo? We’re waiting for everyone who loves, loves, loves! Ansari now to quickly turn on him like they turn on so many other comedians who go from hipster to mega star. That’s going to be so fun! (But please prove us wrong, comedy fans).
For now, though, we might as well watch the aforementioned promo, which also features Sarah Silverman and Zac Efron, who is so totally fuckable. Are we right?
Did you spot the very subtle YouTube and MacBook product placement? You did? You win a lifetime subscription to YouTube!
Take a look around the Internet, folks, and you will find no dearth of Lost finale-related video spoofs, interviews and other crap. So, obviously, Funny Or Die wasn’t going to take a back seat to all the fun. No, sirs and mesdames. They enlisted Sarah Silverman to speak with Lost executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof on camera, in an interview that that was not real but made to look real and then somewhere in the middle was kinda made to look like a joke, which then kills the “it’s mostly funny because the subjects think its real” angle of the video.
Anyway, check it out. Silverman does what you expect her to do. And it is funny, regardless of the suspension-of- disbelief inconsistencies. Enjoy!
Despite a word of mouth and Twitter campaign to “save” The Sarah Silverman Program, its network Comedy Central has canceled the series after three seasons, the final season ending just weeks ago.
Deadline.com reported the scoop moments ago. But the news doesn’t come as a complete shock.
On April 12, SSP writer/producer and main dude Rob Schrab Tweeted: “Season (SERIES?) FINALE of the Sarah Silverman Program this Thursday, starring Ed Asner as a Nazi.”
In an April 13 interview posted on TV Squad, SSP star and comedian Brian Posehn all but said this would be the end of the show, saying, “I feel like we’re lucky to have done what we’ve done, and I would be very happy to come back and do a season four. But I’d also be completely surprised if it happened.”
And then hours later, co-star Laura Silverman told her fans via Twitter, “If you want more #sarahsilvermanprogram tweet @ComedyCentral and let them know. It’s up to you! Power to the People, Right On.”
Comedian Tig Notaro has become something of a renaissance comedian in the last few years. Besides generating buzz for her understated, deadpan style of work on stage, she’s made a splash playing Officer Tig on The Sarah Silverman Program, and by golly, she curated an entire comedy festival last October– The Bentzen Ball in Washington DC.
And now she’s been hosting her own monthly live shows at Largo in Los Angeles, the West Coast hot spot for all high profile DIY comedy shows. Last month, in fact, she welcomed the cast of NBC’s Parks and Recreation to the sold out show, which played out as part stand-up and sketch show, part funny song time and part Q&A with Tig, herself firing questions at Amy Poehler.
Tomorrow, if you’re in the LA area, we highly suggest you check out this month’s show, which will feature the cast of TheSarahSilverman Program: Silverman, Steve Agee, Laura Silverman and Jay Johnston are all scheduled to appear. For now, however, check out Punchline Magazine’s Matthew Gill interview Notaro, just the other day at her home. Enjoy!
There’s a good chance, Sarah Silverman will be spending her summer in Toronto this year. She’s in talks to join the cast of indie flick Take This Waltz, starring Seth Rogen and Michelle Williams, which will film in the Canadian city.
Variety reports the movie “centers on a young woman (Williams) whose struggles with infidelity leads her to the realization that she may be addicted to the honeymoon period of her relationships.”
Silverman, who just released her first book, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee, would play the Rogen character’s sister, if she lands the part.
For those of us looking for any clue as to whether her Comedy Central show, The Sarah Silverman Program will be re-upped for a fourth season, this isn’t that clue, since the show, having just wrapped, wouldn’t be shooting during the summer anyway. As far as we can tell, Silverman would easily be able to commit to both projects.
On tonight’s season — or is it series? — finale of the Sarah Silverman Program on Comedy Central, sisters Laura and Sarah duke it out to see who throws the best Holocaust memorial. Yay! And Ed Asner guest stars as a Nazi. Double yay! Check out a clip below. And be sure to tune in tonight at midnight EST.
Tomorrow marks the season finale of the Sarah Silverman Program on Comedy Central. As with any show — especially on cable — there’s always a chance the show won’t come back for another season. However, the popularity of Sarah and co. and this show would make it seem like an obvious decision for Comedy Central to renew.
But if you remember, this season barely happened after the cast had demanded higher pay days. It was only after sister network LOGO stepped in to shuffle some bucks around that production began.
Two days ago, SSP writer/producer and main dude Rob Schrab Tweeted: “Season (SERIES?) FINALE of the Sarah Silverman Program this Thursday, starring Ed Asner as a Nazi.”
In an interview posted yesterday on TV Squad, SSP star and comedian Brian Posehn all but said this would be the end of the show, saying, “I feel like we’re lucky to have done what we’ve done, and I would be very happy to come back and do a season four. But I’d also be completely surprised if it happened.”
And then hours later, co-star Laura Silverman told her fans via Twitter, “If you want more #sarahsilvermanprogram tweet @ComedyCentral and let them know. It’s up to you! Power to the People, Right On.”
At most, all of this points to the probable end of a great show– unless, of course, the cast is just trying to drum up buzz in order to score some huge season finale numbers.
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A few months ago comedian Todd Glass suffered a heart attack while performing on a Sarah Silverman and Friends show in LA. So, to help the burden of all those medical bills, Glass’ friends are producing a benefit show. David Spade has organized the event, rightfully titled the David Spade and Friends Comedy Benefit Show, and it features an excellent lineup: Sarah Silverman and Adam Carolla are just two of the big name comedians announced so far, with more to come in the next few days.
This summer, three comedians (and one singer) in four cities will moderate environmental debates in Lexus’s newest promotion, “The Darker Side of Green.” After the success of the initial debate that Sarah Silverman moderated, Lexus decided to continue with the series.
Sarah Silverman took some time to write to congress recently. A vegetarian since the age of 10, Sarah is pushing to have the Healthy School Meals Act of 2010 passed; it’s an act that would help schools provide more fruits, veggies, and plant-based meals to students.
