Sarah Silverman, quirky quirkball comedian, has a plan the end world hunger: She wants The Pope to sell the Vatican and use the money to feed the world. Harhar.

This is supposed to be “one of those viral videos” that blows up the Internet and that everyone is running around quoting, but honestly? Blah. Played out. And frankly? I don’t even know what this video is supposed to be doing. You have to watch the entire thing only to find out that there’s no link to a charity with an actual plan to end world hunger and in the mean time you get to sit through her staple material: Holocaust and pussy jokes.

I go back and fourth between finding Silverman to be really good at what she does and pretty decent at her own extremely played-out bit and this video definitely makes me think the latter. While I think it would be great if she was doing something to actually help aid world hunger (as opposed to just mentioning it several times in a video that doesn’t offer one reasonable tip on how to solve this problem) and would find it extremely difficult to criticize, this just seems like a really lame attempt at making jokes about something that her peers actively work to combat.

Comedy Central’s The Sarah Silverman Project needs a bailout.  The executive producers of the show, one of which is Silverman, were informed that the budget for season three would be cut by more than twenty percent.  Hey, welcome to my world.

Anyway, they have threatened to quit, which would effectively end the show.  Apparently a typical budget for a one-camera is $1.5-2M per episode and they have been producing TSSP for $1.1 per show.  So yeah, being cut to $850,000 is tough-I guess.  Honestly, I know nothing about television production operational costs.  It just flummoxes me that it costs over a million dollars to produce twenty-two quality minutes of Silverman amusing the masses.  Of course, I also don’t understand people who pay $200 to go to a concert, so I may not be the best judge.

The EPs and Comedy Central are at a stand-off but talks are set to resume this week.

Totally unrelated, I have to pay Sarah Silverman a compliment.  There is something about her that looks infinitely inappropriate in a dress-like Amy Winehouse at an AA meeting, it just never looks right.  But you know what?  She never stops trying.  I appreciate her persistence.

Listen, I give her credit for kinda-sorta trying, and not intentionally looking like a total hobo for the entirety of the pre-inauguration festivities she attended in D.C., but this dress is ill-fitting and looks cheap. It also really needed a necklace. Sarah, you are soooo successful these days. Would it be SO HARD for you to hire a stylist for events like this?

Sarah Silverman, who I love and feel is a comedic genius, really needs to let up on this ugly duckling thing. It’s gone too far. She looked like a homeless crackwhore on the red carpet for the Critics Choice Awards. Listen, Sarah, you don’t have to buy into the standard definition of beauty, but you also don’t have to go out of your way to look awful. You’re a very pretty girl! Stop this insanity! Your bubbi would kvetch!

Congrats to funny lady Sarah Silverman, who reportedly has New York publishers going nuts trying to outbid each other for a book she’s penning. The bids are rumored to be over $2.5M now!

Meanwhile, Jerry Seinfeld is also shopping a book, and bidding on that is supposedly in the $8M range, causing eyes in the publishing industry to roll. Says one literary scout: “For serious, who has that kind of money? Isn’t the economy collapsing or something? How does giving Jerry Seinfeld more money seem smart to anyone?” Agreed. Give it all to Sarah instead.

Meanwhile, bids for my as-yet-untitled-and-also-unwritten debut novel are hovering somewhere around the $0 range and are expected to wrap up somewhere in the $0 range.

WTF was Sarah Silverman thinking before she left the house to tape her Letterman appearance?

Sarah, you know there are going to be cameras outside Letterman’s studio.

If I were Jimmy Kimmel, I’d dump you all over again the minute I saw you in this get-up.

Listen, sweetheart, I always stand up for you. Whenever someone’s like “OMG I can’t stand Sarah Silverman, she’s so annoying,” I’m the first one in there like “No! You just don’t get her! She’s like the funniest thing on the planet!” And this is how you repay me, Sarah? With a corduroy skirt?

Here’s Sarah discussing her plea for young Jews to help sway their Floridian grandparents’ vote to Obama in the upcoming election.

If you want to see the full-length viral video Sarah did for The Great Schlep, it’s after the jump.

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