Memoirs get less real, comedy more so

First it turned out James Frey‘s real life was mostly fictional. Then news broke late last week that Jeff Garlin‘s fictional life become mostly real on TBS, with “The Jeff Garlin Show.”

And now, Sarah Silverman is joining in, too. Comedy Central is readying “The Sarah Silverman Program.”

Per the Hollywood Reporter, she will play a character — also named Sarah Silverman — “whose absurd daily life will be told through an array of scripted comedic scenes and songs.”

This is good news, because we’d previously been worried who’d play me in the “The Claude Brodesser Program”; now, we know.

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