Silverman's World Hunger Plan: Sell the Vatican

'It's all coded, all implied'

(NEWSER) - Racists in today's mainstream media don't go around praising the Klan, they appear on Fox News saying President Obama was born in Africa, according to Sarah Silverman. "The entire Fox News Channel is a 24-hour-a-day racism engine, but it’s all coded, all implied," she writes in her new book, Bedwetter. "Lou Dobbs used to scream on CNN about ‘immigration,’ not ‘filthy Mexicans.’” More»

Talk show host is quick to agree with saucy comedian

(NEWSER) - On the slight chance Sarah Palin needs more money, or perhaps just wants to follow in her almost-son-in-law's footsteps, Larry King and Sarah Silverman have an idea for her: Take it off for Playboy. The apparent non sequitur came at the end of King’s interview with Silverman last night, when out of the blue he asked the comedian what she thought of Palin (because, he said, CNN has to say her name at least once a night). More»

Drew Barrymore 'luminous,' Tina Fey dowdy on the red carpet

(NEWSER) - The Emmy winners and losers weren’t just singled out onstage—sartorial successes and failures stalked the red carpet as well. Elizabeth Snead offers a wrap-up in the Los Angeles Times. The Winners:

• Drew Barrymore: “Luminous in Monique Lhuillier’s blush-hued tulle strapless gown.”
• Heidi Klum: Flaunted her very pregnant figure in a black Marchesa dress.
• Jennifer Love Hewitt: “Looked positively sunny in a yellow Max Azria gown.”

(NEWSER) - Nobody’s No. 1 on O, the Oprah Magazine’s inaugural “Power List.” Indeed, no one’s any other number either. “Power can be so many things,” the editors reason, so they’re honoring women who are powerful in different ways. A sampling:

• The Power of Loud: Anna Deavere Smith: Her one-woman plays are “a form of theater unto themselves, brilliantly conjuring the voices of real people.”

Stars who made it big after the show

(NEWSER) - Not all Saturday Night Live alums go on to bigger and better things after leaving the show. Time pronounces the top 10 who did.

• Will Ferrell has come a long way since those cheerleader sketches. His latest flick, Land of the Lost, opens today (and judging from the reviews, it's a good thing he already has an enthusiastic fan base).
• Janeane Garofalo and Sarah Silverman didn't last long on SNL, but that hasn't mattered much since.