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TRAGIC: Sarah Silverman Show Cancelled
[by Dan Springer caricatureking.blogspot.com] NEW YORK TIMES: Unlike some of her Comedy Central brethren Sarah Silverman never made an episode of her show that elicited ominous messages from shadowy groups – her only sin was producing a series that grew too expensive for that cable channel to produce. (O.K., and possibly showing a man deriving illicit pleasure from a toy train. And casting Ed Asner as a Nazi officer.) But those days are no more: Comedy Central said on Wednesday that it was not picking up “The Sarah Silverman Program” for a fourth season, confirming a report that appeared in […]