Exclusive Early Peek at *Vanity Fair’*s Young Hollywood, Starring . . . Sarah Silverman!
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Sarah Silverman Mark Seliger Richard Lawson Rebecca Ford Savannah Walsh Eric Lutz Erin Vanderhoof Gabriel Sherman Chris Murphy Katie Herchenroeder
Dear Judd,
I’d love to help with your magazine project, but I am unable to for several reasons.
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Vanity Fair
Dear Judd,

I’d love to help with your magazine project, but I am unable to for several reasons.

I’m really, really busy and really, really popular. So right off the bat, that’s a tough squeeze time-wise.

I can’t say I’m familiar with this publication, unless it’s connected to the super-fancy paper-plate-and-plasticware company I love so much. Still, I’m sure you understand I can’t be writing art for a paper-plate-company magazine.

O.K. I just Googled it and I do know this magazine—and as it turns out I have a big beef with them. Whenever they have a young-up-and-coming-movie-starlets-of-tomorrow cover, I’m blatantly snubbed. Am I not good enough to lounge in a vintage gown from the 1930s, lazily draped on a chaise, pretending to be in the same room as 14 other cut-and-pasted actresses in similar garb and furniture and poses? I was born to do that, and this magazine took that from me and continues to take that from me with every passing year. And why? Why am I repeatedly overlooked? Because I’m a polarizing Jew? Or is it because of what we all know but are afraid to say: I’m just too goddamned pretty?

We may never know, but what I do know is this: You will have to do your comedy-issue curating sans me. I hope this doesn’t hurt sales too much.

Sincerely,

Sarah Jane Anastasia Silverman XIV

PS: Mark Brazill was right.

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