Sarah Silverman

Sarah Silverman Makes a Denny's Web Ad You May Not Want to Watch While You’re Eating

Peter Kafka in Media on March 23, 2011 at 12:33 pm PT

Who knew Denny’s was so edgy? Does Denny’s know Denny’s is so edgy?

Viral Video: Fallon Does Sheen Does "Winning" Perfume

Kara Swisher in News on March 4, 2011 at 6:32 am PT

While BoomTown has had just about enough of the media frenzy around the wacky ruminations of actor Charlie Sheen, this spot-on impersonation of the high-on-life-and-other-stuff star by late-night television talk show host Jimmy Fallon is worth a watch. It’s for a perfume called, of course, “Winning.”

Revolution CEO Steve Case at D8: AOL Could Come Back–Look What Happened to Apple

Peter Kafka in D8 on June 2, 2010 at 1:56 pm PT

Steve Case is most famous for building America Online, which became the Internet’s first mega-company, and for merging it with Time Warner, which became the worst corporate marriage in recent history. But AOL is 25 years old, and the AOL-Time Warner deal is a decade old. What has Steve Case been doing since then? Investing, in a lot of different stuff. Time to talk about old deals and new ones.

Kara's TED Video: No Sarah Silverman Cussing, but–Shocker–Rob Glaser Touts Bill Gates!

Kara Swisher in News on February 16, 2010 at 5:18 am PT

The controversy over Sarah Silverman’s appearance at the tail end of the TED conference last week can be distilled to this: You either like the gutter-mouthed comic or you don’t. In any case, here’s a video I did at the event, including a tour around TED and a chat with a variety of folks, including former RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser–who used to work for Microsoft–praising a speech on the need to focus on energy and global warming by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Election Day 2008

Beth Callaghan, Director, Web Operations, AllThingsD.com in News on November 4, 2008 at 1:07 pm PT

Thanks to the Web, 2008 marks a high point in the level of engagement between American voters and their presidential candidates. As Arianna Huffington declared yesterday, “I am ready to declare a winner in the 2008 race. The Internet.” On Election Day itself, that statement is more apt than ever. Sites like fivethirtyeight.com and politicalwire.com will provide virtually up-to-the-minute numbers on every race. It’s a level of immediacy that was hard to imagine before now–but it’s also hard to imagine we ever had it any other way.

Political Video of the Day: Sarah Silverman's Great Schlep

Kara Swisher in News on October 10, 2008 at 3:35 am PT

Is there anything comic Sarah Silverman will not say? Apparently not, from this aggressively pro-Sen. Barack Obama video that has become a huge hit on the Web, called “The Great Schlep.” In it, the viciously funny Silverman plans to blame–I am not kidding–old Jewish grandparents–if Democratic nominee Obama loses the Presidential election. Thus, she plots revenge.

Don't Vote! (Except, It's Celebs Being Ironic, So Do!)

Kara Swisher in News on October 1, 2008 at 2:52 pm PT

Here’s an interesting online video, in which a passel of celebrities urge young people to vote. It begins with them urging youth not to vote, in that hipster, sarcastic, of-course-we-really-mean-you-should-vote-you-dope tone. The nonpartisan PSA–well, honestly, it does lean decidedly liberal–has been produced by actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and includes DiCaprio, Jennifer Aniston, Dustin Hoffman, Eva Longoria, Forest Whitaker, Ellen DeGeneres, among others.