Oh my God -- Silverman's a superstar!

  Look what's happened to Sarah Silverman in less than one year.  Last year at this time, she was counting her blessings on The Howard Stern Show about how "lucky" she was that Comedy Central picked up six episodes of her show.  She was happy that someone threw her a bone.

"The Sarah Silverman Program" was a hit and was picked up immediately last spring, but it just sort of seemed like another not-so-newsworthy achievement in the world of a semi-successful  actress/comedienne who'd been struggling to make it big for years.

But then she hit the career jackpot by hosting the MTV Movie Awards last June.  Talk about a life-changing monologue!  The girl had the unbelievable luck of having Paris Hilton – who was just hours away from turning herself in to serve her jail sentence – actually show up for the Awards.  Sarah let loose on Paris, everyone in the world laughed in agreement, and less than two minutes later, Sarah Silverman was a bigger star than she'd ever been in her life.

I've read that Silverman loves to smoke pot, but even after multiple bong hits of Grade A weed, I'm sure she never dreamed that Paris Hilton's arrest would eventually serve as the turning point in her career and propel her from cult-comic darling to international celebrity.

But it got even better.  After knocking out Paris, she swept the floor Britney in her recent MTV disaster and look at Sarah now -- she's glamming it up in Gap ads, being followed by the tabloids and is suddenly one of the most talked-about celebs in Hollywood.   

The funny, smart brunette outwits the stupid, blonde cheerleaders and comes out a hero, but here's the even beter part:  Silverman's full, God-given talent has yet to be fully realized -- who's to say we won't be seeing this pot smoking, AIDS joking, lesbian mocking force of nature collect an Oscar someday soon?

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