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In Sarah Sherman’s Live Show, We Are All Colin Jost

Prior to catching Sarah Sherman’s live act Thursday, I wondered how she might marry the body-horror antics of her old Sarah Squirm stage show with the tamer yet charmingly abrasive persona she’s developed on Saturday Night Live. Turns out, she’s put both identities into a blender, delighting in the strange, disgusting spew that comes out the other end. I mostly mean “strange, disgusting spew” in a good way.

Jennifer Lopez Hated Her ‘South Park’ Portrayal So Much She Had People Fired for Quoting It

Some celebrities take their insulting and endlessly quotable South Park parodies on the chin, owning the joke and choosing to interpret the imitation as flattery. Jenny from the Block ain’t one of them.

Jennifer Lopez’ hatred of South Park stretches back even before the very deliberately racist caricature performed by Cartman’s hand puppet in the Season Seven episode “Fat Butt and Pancake Head” became a household bit — and, after the episode took off, her hurt feelings even allegedly led to a handful of assistants losing their jobs.

More ‘South Park’:

• All the Times ‘South Park’ Spilled into Real Life

• 29 Easter Eggs and Behind-the-Scenes Facts About ‘South Park’

• Inside Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s ‘South Park’ Fortune

• 20 Times South Park Proved It Was The King Of Satire

• The Harshest Celebrity Takedowns of ‘South Park’ Season 26

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