Paris was in the audience with a camera in her face while Sarah went to town, and a few hours later began the first leg of her notorious jail stay.

Sez Sarah:

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The Sarah Silverman Program's debut two Thursdays ago on Comedy Central made an impression with the critics, her fans at the New York Times, and gay groups, thanks to the portrayal of a slobby couple of gay bears next door.

But last week's episode, which included a typically ironically heartless take on the homeless, and as far as we know, the first detailed exploration of the phenomenon of "queefing" beyond The Howard Stern Show (and possibly Oprah), sealed the deal on her future.

Our pals at Gawker were emailed an internal memo from Comedy Central that confirms that surprisingly decent Thursday night ratings combined with critical cachet, mean that Jimmy Kimmel's flatulent galpal will get fourteen additional episodes to split between next fall and next spring.

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And whether they're gay or not, actors Brian Posehn and Steve Agee greet the new day as gay heroes after their debut last night on The Sarah Silverman Program. The pair play Sarah's gay neighbors Brian and Steve-- or as the star described them in the show: "Gigantic, orange, and gay."

The premiere of Sarah's Comedy Central show was off-the-wall, infantile, gross and scary-funny-- but it hit a nerve. Taste-making, middlebrow gay establishment magazine and website The Advocate describes the gigantic, orange, gay pair as "everything the gay characters on Queer as Folk and Will & Grace were too afraid and unimaginative and busy chasing their own boring tails to be: fat, bearded, nerdy, bickering, dude speaking, glasses wearing, karate chopping, video game playing, covertly masturbating, metal T-shirt-wearing malcontents....

"They're sidekicks, but they are so unlike anything else ever seen on a half-hour sitcom that they could have their own show, standing alone on their own weird merits. Best of all, they aren't reactions to anything: They aren't self-consciously butching it up or created to combat all the "Just Jacks" of TV history; they just are what they are... basically they're better than any other sitcom gays ever....

"In other words, these are homosexuals I understand: My circle of friends finally represented fictionally on television. And I feel validated by a sitcom for the first time."

Writer Dave White also names his list of The Best Homosexuals on TV:

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