S arah Silverman has a shy side. No, really. For years, she avoided doing a podcast because she didn’t want to ask her friends to be on another comedy show. Then, during the pandemic, Silverman came up with a solution. She made her fans the guests. Now, listeners call in …
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While recently honoring Conan O’Brien for receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at a gala event in D.C., Sarah Silverman told the audience that the former late-night host kept her going after she was fired from Saturday Night Live after only one season. That special is available to …
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What’s so funny about death? Sarah Silverman will do her best to explain in Postmortem, a new Netflix standup special that premieres on Netflix on May 20. The comedian’s launchpad for jokes focus on the grief she’s felt for her parents, dad Donald and stepmom Janice Silverman, who died 10 …
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Sarah Silverman appeared on David Duchovny‘s Fail Better podcast this week and took the opportunity to reflect on why she dropped her formative “Sarah Silverman” character amid the political rise of Donald Trump. She explained she decided to move on from the “arrogant ignorant” character she previously embodied for more …
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A group of authors, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, were dealt an arguably expected setback in a copyright infringement case against OpenAI. On Monday, Feb. 12, a federal judge threw out some, but not all of the claims contained in the lawsuit, which alleges OpenAI’s ChatGPT program was trained …
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Jews are not a monolith. And yet, for the past several decades, those in favor of Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration have mendaciously branded any criticisms of the Israeli government as antisemitism. It is a curious conflation, given how a 2021 Pew Research Center survey revealed that only 58% of Jewish adults …
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A federal judge has tossed several claims in a copyright infringement case brought by authors — including Sarah Silverman — against Meta over the way it trains its artificial intelligence language models. Silverman and her co-plaintiffs had accused the tech giant of improperly using their copyrighted books to train its …
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Margo Price appeared on The Daily Show last night to showcase her emotive single “Lydia” and to chat with guest host Sarah Silverman about her music. Price performed the song, a moving track about bodily autonomy and women’s rights, solo with an acoustic guitar. “Lydia” was written years ago after …
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Sarah Silverman took to the Daily Show stage earlier this week to report that PresidentJoe Bidenis losing young voters at an accelerating rate — givingDonald Trump an edge in five battleground states. The guest host returned on Tuesday to deliver more sobering news: A new poll shows that Kennedy is …
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Sarah Silverman is part of a new copyright class action suit against OpenAI, which alleges that ChatGPT was illegally trained on copyrighted books. Silverman is one of three lead plaintiffs, alongside the authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey. They claim, on behalf of the prospective class, that their books were …
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