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8 Dos and Dont’s For Making the Perfect Celebrity PSA

8:31AM STV | We’re 15 days away from arguably the most culturally charged election of the last 50 years, and it’s not just David Letterman’s outrage or Sarah Palin’s SNL cameos moving the needle. In fact, the celebrity PSA crop of 2008 is as ripe as it’s ever been — literally so, in fact, with every encouraging offering on the air giving way to three or four smug, pretentious, condescending or otherwise botched campaigns elsewhere. It happens every four years, as sure as the primaries; just when we think we’d seen it bottom out, along come Leonardo Di Caprio, Blake Lively, Carlos Mencia to knock us back to the Clinton era.

Jackie Mason Thinks ‘Sick Yenta’ Sarah Silverman Oughta Shut Her Punim

9:00AM Kyle Buchanan | Just as British funnymen Ricky Gervais and Simon Pegg have resolved to patch up their “fat idiot” feud, along come Sarah Silverman and Jackie Mason to fill the void with their own bit of culturally specific warring. Perhaps you’ll recall Silverman’s recent video for thegreatschlep.com, an organisation designed to coax young, Jewish Obama supporters to travel to Florida and convince their grandparents to vote Democrat. Creaky comic Mason is not a fan of this idea (to put it mildly) and in an ad paid for by a Jewish Republicans group, he tears into both Obama and Silverman, calling the latter a “sick yenta.” Careful, Jackie — if Silverman can handle talking shit about her ex-boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel, she’s not going to be daunted by your dated patter. Both videos, after the jump: More »