>> i love sarah silverman and all those ladies. anyone who serves women aren't funny deserves a whack up side the head. it was a figure of speech. >> sorry. >> woah! no more figures of speech over here. just concrete language. there's lots of incredible funny women from tina fey to sarah silverman, even the sweetly violence women i work with every day. >> really? >> really? >> all right. really. anyway, i don't want to live in a world without women came medians and neither does our next guest. the author of we kill the rise of women in american comedy. welcome, my sister. >> thanks for having me. >> so you can talk about smftd special challenges that women who want to enter comedy will face? >> i think i have to look at stand up and sketch a as two different art forms. the main challenge for stand ups is there is an idea out there that -- and this is true for a long time -- that stand up and telling jokes is masculine. and i think that's where a lot of the challenge comes in. and so i think that's partly where the women aren't funn

sarah silverman. er from sam. >> good morning, everybody, again. sarah, thanks for being here. i love her voice. don't you just love the way she sounds? crowd in times square. signs out everywhere. >> lee's summit, missouri. >> your name? >> marlene. >> what's your name? >> julie. >> what's your sign say? >> ohio. >> it does. and a little drawing. i'm assuming it's the state of ohio. it looks rather familiar. let's get to the boards. here's some things going on this morning, one or two things we like to show you every day. we'll start with the facebook and twitter pictures. first one from washington. next one from wisconsin. gorgeous skies. it's nice to see the pictures. we retweet them when you send them in. in the midwest, comes a secondary shot of cold air. it reaffirms that it's a little chilly for this time of year. it swings from the great lakes into the northeast and the mid-atlantic. there's cold nights ahead, ladies and gentlemen. if you need to pack up and get extra gear and figure out a way

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. >> jennifer: that's comedian sarah silverman speaking out on behalf of sister giant.er giant? it is a new movement that hopes to get more women to run for office and inject spirituality into the political arena and the woman behind sister giant is the world's renowned spiritual activist and lecturer and "new york times" best selling author, marianne williamson. i'm so pleased to welcome her on to the set of "the war room" tonight. >> thank you jennifer. it is a real honor to be here. >> jennifer: it is great to have you here. let's start with sister giant. is there something specific you want to convey to people about what sister giant is? >> well, we won more seats obviously in congress the other night. however, we still don't have anywhere near gender equity in either our federal government or in our state house. so we have moved maybe into 18% 19%. and i think that there is some very unique emotional and psychological issues that women that keep them from running. if a woman is running against a man, the electorate will vote for the woman as easily as for the man b

. >> jay: i want to thank my guests, sarah silverman, paula deen and lyle lovett.onday night, simon cowell and britney spears will be here. but jimmy fallon coming up next. jimmy! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey. that's what i'm talking about. great new york city crowd. thank you so much. welcome. welcome, everybody to "late night with jimmy fallon." here's what people are talking about. it's official. mayor bloomberg has cancelled this year's new york city marathon. just as well. it was going to be extra tough on the runners since bloomberg was going to have to require them to carry three other runners just to get in to the city. [ laughter ] it's almost impossible. [ applause ] maybe two kenyans, maybe. but that's -- hey, after it was an