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Once again, people, I'm forced to asked the question, what the hell is going on here? Has black become white? Has up replaced down? Has Rush Limbaugh been saying he wishes Barack Obama all the best, while Janeane Garofalo is caught trying to start a fire in the White House rose garden?

The makers of The Sarah Silverman Program have been in a standoff with Comedy Central over their latest budget negotiations. Thankfully, a deal was reached and the show will return for another season, but the deal was even bigger than the budget they called into question.

Well, no one ever said you had to be good at math to run a major network, or any of the other basic requirements for passing standardized testing, for that matter. Fred Silverman's parents, for instance, had to hire their boy a special tutor so he could pass finger painting.

The show had been halted for the last four days, or as Reuters described it a "four-day day standoff" (sic) (I'm one to talk about typos, right, every editor I've ever worked for in the history of the universe?), because the producers had been butting heads over budget concerns. Viacom was only willing to give them $850,000 an episode, which apparently is not enough to run over strangers who look like Osama Bin Laden and sing about poop.

Then one of the network heads came up with a compromise. Comedy Central could share the costs of production with their sister network, Logo, the only network where the term "sister" can take on more than one meaning.

So now the producers not only have their show back, but they have an even bigger budget than last year. This means the staff can get back to work and get started on the third season set to air sometime in 2010. I knew Obama's stimulus package would come through for us.