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NBC has released the names of cast members of season 3 of The Celebrity Apprentice.

Comedian Carol Leifer will be featured at this year's Chopshticks dinner and comedy show, the South Bay's annual mistletoe-free laugh fest.

Since Ellen DeGeneres graced the cover of Time Magazine more than a decade ago under the headline "Yep, I'm Gay," coming out in Hollywood has become an increasingly common - and typically headline-grabbing - phenomenon.

"I'm getting a lot of 'I laughed and I cried' reactions," Carol Leifer says about her new best-selling book, "When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win" . "I'm used to just getting the laughs." The well-known comedienne, a veteran writer for "Seinfeld" who's made countless appearances on "Letterman," "The Tonight Show," "Politically Incorrect ...

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Posted Oct 19th 2009 1:22PM by Bob Sassone Filed under: The Apprentice , Celebrities Danny told you last week that Rod Blagojevich might be in the cast of the new Celebrity Apprentice season.

The Ellen Show creator Carol Leifer is returning to CBS with a new gay comedy, The Hollywood Reporter reported.

Carol Leifer got her writing break on "Seinfeld" with the "Lip Reader" episode, her first produced script.

In this podcast, Forward contributor Michael Kaminer speaks with former "Seinfeld" writer Carol Leifer about her new memoir, "When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win," her relationship with her late father, working with Larry David, and what a body builder and a challah have in common.

PETA is known for raising eyebrows with its largely nude "no fur" ad campaigns, but a new campaign starring Pam Anderson, Andy Dick and Carol Leifer has been yanked from New York airports for going too far.

While most of that line rings true - Leifer is Semitic, same-sex loving and vegan - "weird" is the last word that comes to mind for the haimish -sounding woman with faint Long Island vowels, who calls at the precise time arranged.

Comedy and death? Not such strange bedfellows. After all, when stand-ups go over well with the crowd, they "kill." When they bomb, they "die." In honor of Funny People 's feature-length riff on mortality, four well-known comics who have cameos in the film share a favorite joke on the subject.

Actress' book gives life and learning a hearing July 16, 2009 What about sex? Sex is good.

"I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority," says comedian Carol Leifer in her brand-new public service announcement for PETA.

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After finding out how animals are treated by the factory-farming industry, comedian and writer Carol Leifer stopped eating them, lost 20 pounds, and has never felt better.

I'm willing to bet my last Goldenberg Peanut Chew that you love comedian/writer Carol Leifer just as much as I do.

I don't know how some writers pull it off. When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win by longtime comedy writer Carol Leifer, which was published by Villard, seems to me in form and even sometimes in subject matter -- though not, of course, on a sentence-by-sentence basis -- to resemble Nora Ephron's marvelously entertaining and highly ...

A physical therapist bothers Jerry, angers George and attracts Kramer. Meanwhile, Kramer promotes friendliness within his building.

Carol Leifer talks about realizing she was gay as a middle-aged woman, and adopting a child at 52.