How the Grinch Stole Christmas (ABC) – The cartoon version is on at 8, followed by the Jim Carrey movie.  So… I’ll try to help you find something else to watch at 8:30.  See what I did there?  SICK Jim Carrey burn.  (*awaits high fives*) (*receives no high fives*) (*pouts*)

Thursday Night Football (NFL Network) – Steelers vs. Panthers.  Am I the only one who thinks the kid in this video looks an awful lot like Panthers QB Jimmy Clausen?  Furthermore, it just seems like something Jimmy Clausen would do. I bet it’s him. See that, Deadspin? You’re not the only website that can unearth shady videos from athletes’ past. (Side note: God I love that video.)

Jeff Dunham’s Very Special Christmas Special (Comedy Central) – So last night on “Jeopardy,” one of the categories was “PPs on Earth,” where the contestants were given clues about places with the initials PP.  But it resulted in the contestants saying things like, “I’ll take pee pees for $600, Alex,” and holy crap it was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen on TV.  Jeff Dunham, not so much.

Police Women of Dallas (TLC) – So wait, are they little people or do they have a dozen or so damn wiener kids?  WHAT?!  Neither?!  They’re just normal lady cops?!  I don’t even know you anymore, TLC.

The Smoking Gun Presents World’s Dumbest Criminals (TruTV) – It’s gonna be hard to top the two guys in the news clip after the jump.  As great as the idiot crooks are, the anchor is the highlight.  He goes all John Madden on the footage.  “Watch it, right here… see what he does here… they’re running, then all the sudden, OH!”

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Hitlerfish takes another step in eradicating the Jews from his TV

In a move that comes as no surprise, Comedy Central has canceled “The Sarah Silverman Program” after three seasons. The details:

The show earned Silverman a lead actress Emmy nomination last year. But it also was on the brink of cancellation in 2009 when she and fellow executive producers Dan Sterling and Rob Schrab threatened to quit after the cable network asked them to slash the series’ budget by more than 20%. A last-minute deal with sister network Logo was reached to co-finance the series, so a 10-episode third season was ordered. But midway through Season 3, which wrapped last month, the network bumped the series from 10:30 PM to midnight, hinting at its intention not to continue with Sarah.

I think I’m one of the few people on the planet who isn’t polarized by Silverman. I thoroughly enjoyed Jesus Is Magic, but I don’t always like her comedy. I don’t think she’s hot, but she’s not unattractive, either. And that’s how I felt about “The Sarah Silverman Program,” too. I didn’t dislike watching it, but I certainly never felt compelled to watch it.

And that’s not a knock on Silverman: plenty of other comics have had shows with shorter runs — Louis CK and Jeff Dunham, for example. I mean, how could Comedy Central not stick with “The Jeff Dunham Show”? Don’t you get it? That stupid Muslim terrorist was a skeleton! Ha ha, it’s funny because I hate foreigners.

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There’s rumored good news and definite bad news in the world of funny today. And by “today” I mean “last week, but I’m just getting to it now since there’s no news today.” The good news first, from the Comic’s Comic:

I first reported on Monday that I was hearing whispers that Comedy Central might not be renewing The Jeff Dunham Show, the ventriloquist’s clunky sitcom that had Dunham and his puppets heckling “real people” in the “real world.” And now I’m hearing that, despite what Comedy Central told me, Dunham’s writing staff found out a week ago that the show wasn’t getting picked up after its season finale aired Dec. 10.

Wow, I can’t believe I live in a world where “Tosh.0″ gets a second season and the “The Jeff Dunham Show” gets canceled. Perhaps there’s hope after all! …or not:

It could very well turn out that Dunham himself would rather go about his rather lucrative business with the fans in person than spend time on a second TV season dealing with critics who don’t seem to like him very much at all… After all, he grossed $38 million just in ticket sales last year, plus millions more in merchandise sales.

Yeah, that’s why I don’t feel so bad putting Dunham in a triptych with Hitler and a Klansman. He’s far too wealthy to mind being called a racist. For the kind of money he’s making, I’d be willing to reinforce negative stereotypes among the dumbest segments of the populace, too. Hell, I’d probably do it for less. Especially if I got to expose those no-good micks for the lazy drunks they are.