Tonight (Sunday the 23rd) at 10pm ET Stephen Colbert’s much-anticipated and much-promoted Christmas Special episode will air on Comedy Central. The special, modeled after the tried & true tradition of Christmas-themed shows done by old-fashioned celebrities (and often their terribly uncomfortable families) will feature a slew of guests, musical numbers, and unusual dance moves…

Check out the sneak preview here & tune in for the madness tonight!

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Co-stars John Legend, Sharon Leal, and Samuel L. Jackson paid tribute to deceased comedian Bernie Mac on the red carpet premiere of his final film Soul Men last week. Mac passed away on August 9th, 2008.

Legend & Leal also pass on their sympathy to Jennifer Hudson & family. For the red carpet interviews, watch this video:

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She may have made the big time with her VP candidacy and a guest spot on Saturday Night Live, but Sarah Palin’s paid for the limelight with a high price of criticism.

Perhaps aptly, given her latest venue for politicking was the NBC staple sketch comedy, comedians are particularly scathing of the Alaskan governor. Two of the latest in a growing number of funny men and women to declare war on Palin are industry giants Chevy Chase and Jon Stewart.

Chase had some harsh words about Palin’s appearance on SNL, where he had his own political fun impersonating bumbling president Gerald Ford. “”The management behind McCain’s campaign has been dumb. This has only helped accentuate the problem of his judgment in choosing, in such a cynical way, a candidate like Sarah Palin for vice president. I think the last thing that they would want right about now is to have the rest of America knowing all that…to have her be seen on SNL, certainly never there. If anything, you just want her to be seen just from a distance.”

He also accused Palin of being unable to “improvise herself out of a paper bag.”

Jon Stewart didn’t hold back either. While speaking at a college this weekend the Daily Show host declared “She said that small towns, that’s the part of the country she really likes going to because that’s the pro-America part of the country. You know, I just want to say to her, just very quickly: Fuck you.”

Then adopting his best Palin impersonation, he said “I’ve never seen someone with a greater disparity between how cute they sound when they’re saying something and how terrible what they’re saying is. Don’tcha know, Obama, by golly, he just is a terrorist?… Oh, you know, he just, gosh, kills babies, you know.” (source)

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Saturday Night Live cast member, 30 Rock writer/star, and cult sex symbol Tina Fey has just furthered her brainy image with a book deal. Observer reports the book will be collection of a humorous essays.

What’s remarkable is that she’s been given a multi-million dollar advance to write the book, proving great faith in Fey’s public appeal. With all the plates she’s very successfully spinning, we’ve no doubt she’ll pull this off with her usual sarcastic panache. (source)

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