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With a new PBS bio about him airing Monday, May 20, then released as a DVD, Mel Brooks has been front and center recently, and he brought up Sarah’s name on a short list of people he finds funny.  Here’s what he said, as reported by
USA Today on May 17 :

“Very few people make me laugh. Louis C.K. Sarah Silverman. My  8-year-old grandson, Henry,  loves her more than anything as Vanellope in Wreck-It Ralph.  Some movies — the first Hangover was unusual and funny. Judd Apatow, all his stuff. Steve Carell.”

UPDATE: In David Bianculli’s NPR radio interview with Mel Brooks (April 20), the comedian again expressed admiration for Sarah Silverman. Here’s what he said when citing Wreck-It Ralph as the most recent movie he and Carl Reiner watched together and laughed a lot at:

“I think Wreck-It Ralph– we saw the cartoon. We liked it, with John C. Reilly playing Ralph. And we just loved Penelope (sic) played by Sarah Silverman. She’s glorious. And generally she’s one of the few new– there’s Amy Schumer who’s come along too, who’s wonderful. I mean, but they’re– There are people that come along who are really good and funny– and Silverman was– we both love her.”

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Published by United Press International (UPI)
May 10, 2013 at 11:20 AM

Ultra-orthodox Jews harass Women of the Wall during prayer at wall

JERUSALEM, May 10 (UPI) — Three ultra-orthodox Jewish men were arrested Friday during a protest of the Women of the Wall prayer group that was praying at the Western Wall, police said.

Protesters threw garbage, spat and hurled insults at the women and three police officers were slightly injured during the protests, The Jerusalem Post reported.

It was the first time Women of the Wall legally prayed at the wall following a court ruling.

Rabbi Susan Silverman, sister of comedian Sarah Silverman, told the Post haredi men spat on her three daughters, threw coffee at the Women of the Wall activists and that a little girl next to her was struck in the head.

Oshrat Ben Shimshon, a representative of Women of the Wall, told Israel Radio, “Orthodox rabbis have determined that there is no halachik [religious law] barrier to women praying with prayer shawls and tefillin [a set of boxes holding verses from the Torah] and reading from the Torah.”

Natan Sharansky, chairman of The Jewish Agency for Israel, said a long-lasting solution was needed immediately. He said Friday’s clashes at the Western Wall reinforced Israel’s need to allow any Jew, group of Jews or Jewish community to pray at the Western Wall in accordance with their customs.

Over a human barrier of security forces, protesters shouted at the Women of the Wall activists as they held their first monthly service without restrictions following a court ruling that reinterpreted existing laws to allow them to perform their own customs — such as wearing prayer shawls and tefillin — without fear of being arrested.

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Click the pic to see Sarah (and others) in the trailer for YouTube’s Comedy Week, which is May 19 to 25.

UPDATE: Here are three more Comedy Week promos that include Sarah.

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Sarah is among “more than 100 musicians and actors [who] have signed a letter to President Obama and members of Congress urging them to pass a bill that provides a ‘clear road map to citizenship’ for the nation’s 11 million unauthorized immigrants,” according to USA Today.  Go here to read more.

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Sarah will reportedly be among the guests during the second season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, the Crackle comedy series created, written, and produced by Jerry Seinfeld. The series’ renewal was announced at Digital Content Newfronts. Sarah appears in the trailer (showed at the Newfronts but not yet online) for the new season of CCGC. Crackle is a free online provider of media experiences.

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Sarah’s new JASH video is in the style of a 60s French film. Click the pic above to watch and admire the pithiness. Click the pic below for a peek at the “making of.”

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JASH posted this pic on tumblr today,
but no video yet on JASH.com.
The caption is, “Sarah Silverman has a film noir, it’s artistically brilliant, and it’s called Fart Party.”

We anxiously await the start of the party!

UPDATE 5/2/13: It’s up now, and funny (of course). Go here to watch.

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