Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel at the GLAAD Awards on 4/26/08. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures
There’s no doubt- breaking up sucks. You cry, you eat a lot of ice cream, you talk to your friends on the phone forever, you listen to a lot of Air Supply. And if you’re Sarah Silverman, you spark up a doobie or two to numb the pain.
Comedian Sarah Silverman was feeling so low after her recent split from comic Jimmy Kimmel, she got high to get through her stage show.
Sarah and her TV host boyfriend announced their split on July 14 after six years together. And just two weeks later, on July 29, Sarah, 37, had an emotional breakdown moments before she was to take the stage at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Hollywood, Calif., say sources.
“Sarah thought telling jokes about her breakup would be a walk in the park, but she was struck with a case of the jitters so severe she didn’t know if she’d be able to go on,” revealed an insider.
“Sarah went to a comedian friend and told him she desperately needed some pot to calm her nerves.”
After taking a few hits of dope provided by the friend, Sarah managed to regain her composure and went out to perform, the source says.
“Sarah pulled it together on stage,” said the source. “Her timing was dead on and the audience responded well to the new material, which did include a few bittersweet reflections on her breakup.”
Sarah has admitted in interviews that she smokes pot in social settings and enjoys “eating pot brownies.”
[From the National Enquirer, Sept. 1, 2008]
I suppose there are worse vices Sarah could be using to cope- especially in Hollywood. I can’t really say I’m surprised that she’s a bit of a pothead. And if it makes her material more funny, who’s it hurting? What I don’t understand is, if talking about her breakup makes her so upset, why include it in her act? I think most people would understand that it’s still to soon for Sarah to find humor in the situation.
I think she would talk about it because sometimes talking about it feels like you’re moving on. Can be very therapeutic.
uhhh why is this a story again?
For some people I know, marijuana is as addictive as cocaine. They have smoked it every day for decades, and can’t quit. And they’d pick pot over their family if push came to shove. So I’d have to say it’s not always the innocent drug that some folks would have you believe it is.
Pot isn’t physically addictive. People who are addicted to it are only mentally addicted to it, and you can become mentally addicted to ANYTHING, e.g., video games, Facebook, biting nails, eating, etc.
I have a friend who was so addicted to World of Warcraft that he completely shut himself off from the outside world, his family, and his friends, and it came down to the point where we actually had to have an intervention, cancelling his membership, and he had to undergo extensive counseling just to break the habit.
Anything can be abused and/or addictive.
Potheads of the world unite!
I’m actually a pothead in remission. I haven’t smoked since the new year, 4/20. I’ve been doing great so far, but this whole “sobriety” thing is getting a little tedious. Five months is an eternity for a habitual wake-and-baker.
In the first picture, it looks like Jimmy had a bong hit (or five).
Sarah Silverman probably gets stoned to cope with being stoned. (not that I’ve got a problem with that)
oh no Sarah Silverman smokes pot…
it sure beats heroin or meth..
Man I would love to get stoned with Sarah. I bet she’s be a riot to wax poetic with. Why is this such a big deal but its ok to get shit-faced drunk?
Break-ups are hard. The weed isn’t a big deal, just makes her mellow as a cello. Due to what it does to your short term memory…….nuff said.
Is it weird that her dress has pockets? Or is that a normal thing, now? I’m fashion-challenged, so I have no clue what’s OK and what’s a faux pas.
Wow weird dress with pockets. That’s pretty cool. Anywho, getting stoned is our god-given right to cope with stuff that upsets us. It’s like drinking, and Sarah could’ve done that as well. I think drinking is more addictive than smoking pot though, although I do know people who smoke pot everyday and get social anxiety about going out and stuff. So it actually works to their detriment. But since pot is not socially acceptable like booze or pills than it’s mostly frowned upon by society. I think that blows, but whatever…
Dress is fine but chunky heels like that ruin the look – it’s more for a casual outfit.
Jimmy Kimmel looks like an overgrown frat guy who still screams lyrics to Steve Miller band in bars. She can do better
In my fantasy world, all dresses have pockets. A girl needs a place for her stash, ya know?
Trillion, you’re killin’ me! 😆 Funny comments from EVEryone today in this thread, Black I love your mental image of dough-faced Kimmel drunkenly screaming Steve Miller lyrics in a bar late at night – perfect!
I’d stay high all day every day if I had to A. Be Sarah Silverman, and/or B. Have had any kind of past intimate relationship *shudder* with Jimmy Kimmel.
Smoke up, Sarah! There’s a lot more forgetting to do.
(Silverman only bugs me ’cause she used to get kicks out of stating the obvious in her comedy routines, poking mean fun at the bad-girl celebs while they were sitting right there being humiliated by her unfunny meanness.)
Shane- what you said is quite true, but you don’t see many of Hollywood’s notorious potheads shaving themselves bald or beating up strangers in public. The very nature of ANY drug is that too much is not good, but I’d rather be “addicted” to pot (I put that in quotations, because well, I don’t find it nearly as serious as other addictions) than addicted to meth, heroin, crack, or even prescription drugs- illegally obtained or no. Potheads can be addicted for years and not have a psychotic break… they just lose their memory over time.
That said, light it up Sarah! 8)
This is stupid…would this be a story if she had just downed a bottle of vodka? No, of course not, because alcohol is soooooooo much better right??? Just as some people choose to have a beer to relax, some choose to have a doobie. It should be their choice and shouldn’t be made to feel like the scum of the earth for it. If you’re going to fear everything you don’t understand, and judge everyone different from you, then why bother poking your head out from you ostrich holes at all???? Live and let live people…who the hell are you to judge how someone else lives their life??
Shane…ur an idiot…if i said i knew a guy named shane who beat the shit out of his girlfriend, that means all shanes are women beaters, right???? Pot doesn’t make someone do harder drugs, or neglect their family…the PERSON makes that choice, and all on their own. I have smoked pot for about 15 years…never have i done anything else, i don’t even drink, and amazingly enough, my family is supportive and still most important to me…imagine that. I also managed to do something with my life in spite of all the EVIL POT…damn, i guess i’m the only pothead to ever do that, and not let the “evil pot” make them do heroin and meth and run away to live in the subway…
I respect everyone’s opinion and their unique perspective and outlook here.
To each his own (except like, pedophiles and murderers and that sort).
Some of you remind me of the pothead in my life I was describing. Defending marijuana as great stuff – to the very end. COPD and emphysema be damned.
But, no biggie. I will continue to feel marijuana is an inherently disabiling, addictive drug with negative health and mental consequences, and I will continue to guide the children in my life away from ever experimenting with it, given the addictive genetic propensity of some of the people they are related to.
omg ppl can get addicted to legal things too.. booze.. cigs.. these things are far worse then weed.. but they are legal so that makes em “ok” 😉
I don’t think weed is negative. I’ve heard of people getting drunk and sleeping with the wrong person or getting in fist fights, but when was the last time you heard a stoner say “i can’t believe I slept with that guy!”. Never. Because we’re eating cereal and watching VH1. The only thing negative about weed is the term “pothead” itself. It sounds so…derogatory.
Tril~ I agree!! I have an awesome dress from Target that has pockets & I wear it all the time!
Anyhoo, being a stoner, this is a non-story to me too. I’d be concerned if she DID’T burn after the break-up.
Blackalicious:
Jimmy Kimmel looks like an overgrown frat guy who still screams lyrics to Steve Miller band in bars. She can do better
That is one of the funniest things I’ve read in AGES. AND I just came from an Aniston thread which – surprise surprise – turned into an Aniston vs Angelina fight (WHEN, WHEN will that end!?!?! I predict…2076…) so seeing your comment reminded me why I still come to this site. For funny as f*ck comments like that. 😆 😆 😆 😆
I know several people who’ve smoked pot for decades and can’t or won’t quit now. It depends on the individual. It’s only enjoyable if you’re doing it all the time, otherwise, paranoia strikes deep, into your heart it will creep.
I can’t imagine how she could go on stage and remember what she was supposed to be sayin’.
the government and private industry cant
make $ off of pot so they sell you alcohol and pills and nicotine all taxed to the hilt making bank. when you take tylenol or an anti depressant or whatever youre just playing into their hype!
If pot didn’t diminish people’s motivation and ambition, the pro-pot people might have won the battle to get pot fully legalized nationwide by now. Strange paradox isn’t it? Their drug of choice actually works against them.
Instead the anti-pot folks continue to come out ahead because, well, they’re out actively campaigning against drugs unlike the potheads who are home stoned on the couch eating cheetos and watching the comedy channel, hoping somehow pot will eventually be legalized.
The “Just Say No” folks are just so much more efficient with their time and energy…..
Hey, I do agree, most stoned people are fairly harmless as opposed to a drunk or crackhead/speedfreak. Harmless and unproductive. But free time is free time, and to each his own as long as it doesn’t harm others and create a perpetual welfare state that my tax money has to support.
But unfortunately I think daily continuous pot smoking does lend to unemployment. I challenge anyone to name one successful person who smokes pot all day long.
I know several daily pot smokers, wake and bake types, none of which are fully self supporting and must rely on the help of others to have the money to pay the bills. While on pot continuously, they just don’t have their act together enough to 100% support themselves.
Go Sarah! I’m impressed with anyone who can smoke and actually do anything functional. I smoke and I’m asleep within 20 minutes- but I’m a horrible lightweight and hardly smoke so I don’t have a built up tolerance.
I must admit my curiosity makes me wonder why they broke up even thought it is none of my business. I just with them both some happiness. 😕
Shane said: “If pot didn’t diminish people’s motivation and ambition, the pro-pot people might have won the battle to get pot fully legalized…”
I don’t know if that is true or not, hard to prove. But another reason it’s not legal is because organized crime would never allow it, they’re NOT giving up this cash cow, and support politicians who are against it – politics and bedfellows as it were.
People who are chronic users are probably self-medicating for depression, anxiety, low self esteem, sadness etc.
Pharmaceuticals are expensive, and can have serious side effects as well.
“…when was the last time you heard a stoner say “i can’t believe I slept with that guy!”. Never. Because we’re eating cereal and watching VH1.”-mae
mae-that was tooo funny…& true!that sounds like a gooood time to me!
smoking pot never hurt anyone the way drinking/herion/coke/etc has.
shane-heres my theory (take it for what its worth). the reason that pot isnt legalized yet is because people are able to grow it themselves. if it were legal, how could the govt. tax on the purchase of it? it could never happen. so thats why it will never be legal…unfortunatly.
when have you ever heard of someone killing someone in a car accident because they were “stoned” driving…i havent heard any…but DRUNK driving, that a whole ‘nother story…and thats LEGAL?! 😮
Potheads don’t partake for decades unless the medication IS A POSITIVE asset in their life. Their bodies/minds need it for multiple reasons, mostly brain/emotional disorders. And most don’t choose to leave family/friends over pot. Family/friends choose to be condesending, show a severe lack of understanding/empathy and NO desire to learn anything about marijuana (it might interfere with what BS that church/state is coughing up at any moment, shows little white girls happily getting “raped” by black jazz players or the latest, 1 marijuana joint = 20 tobacco joints; equal garbage, different decades). Read people, educate yourselves. The plant you demonize today may be the one medication that keeps that tumor growth in check, your head out of the toilet after your chemo treatments, or just maybe the gun from the side of your kid’s head when the depression/anxiety (maybe PTSD, after Iraq or Katrina) becomes way too much to handle. Me, I’ll light up my path in life with a medication that has been a positive force for > 5000 years, rather than what the US government’s FDA has to offer, based on their 5 person study over a 6 month period.
PS I have known a great many professional people who are very sucessful in their fields and they are daily tokers. But because of society’s judgements, daily tokers would never open up about their personal lifes with people like Shane. That’s why they continue to be sucessful; smart enough to recognize a narrow minded individual when they meet one.
u tell him zpup. i also know many successful people who do smoke on a daily basis but like anything in moderation is a good way to look at any extra curricular activity. they light up after work and after time with the family then they relax light up watch some tv go to sleep and up to work the next day. also shane those people u know that u were describing sounds like even without pot they would not be able to support themselves fully. they sound like a lot of people i know who DONT smoke pot. those people will always have some problem or other that screws things up. they need to know smoking or drinking or gambling or gaming or sex or tv 24/7 is NOT productive and helpful for a good life. and btw i dont smoke pot at all so i’m not a pothead defending it to the end as u so eloquently put it about people who just gave a few examples and opinions.
@ Jinx, hear, hear! Agreed.
@ Shane – “I challenge anyone to name one successful person who smokes pot all day long. ”
Snoop Dogg. He’s high all day, every day, and makes no secret of it. Calvin Broadus earned $16 million for the fiscal year 2008. Amazingly, “pot didn’t diminish [his] motivation and ambition,” as you state of those who smoke. 🙄
The more dedicated, the more medicated!
God damn, I want to burn one!
I think toking up with Ms. Silverman would be delightful.
Don’t forget Mr Marley. He liked his weed on a 24/7 basis. 8)
I was a wake and bake stoner for almost 20 years. It did not hinder my motivation or make me sleepy. In fact, it perked me up.
It was all good until three years ago when I was diagnosed with throat cancer, which the doctor said was caused by too much smoking. After having my throat cut open in surgery, radiation and chemo, I decided I probably shouldn’t smoke anymore.
I hold no judgement against pot smokers. Everyone’s life is there own. Pot is relatively harmless compared to meth, coke, even booze, if done in moderation. But to pot addicts like me (yes, you absolutely can be one), it can cause serious health problems.
I am living (thank God) proof that long term daily use can seriously fuck you up.
I think I’d have to stay stoned to be with Jimmy. Maybe he’s good in bed.
i’ve been smoking pot everyday for the past 6+ years and it hasn’t stopped me from being productive and going for my goals. the only reason i’ve cut down is b/c of such high prices in everything else, food, gas, utilities n such i just can’t afford it. the only thing that has changed since cutting down is i now have more dreams at night… vivid crazy ass dreams.
the whole reefer madness thing should’ve died down in the 60’s but it didn’t. and if you do your research you would know corporations like dupont made pot illegal b/c of it’s sister plant hemp being such a great all around crop. plastic production and fibers were using petroleum oil. when in reality linseed oil is cheaper, doesn’t take pesticides to grow and can grow continuously on the same soil without destroying it, but they didn’t have a monopoly on that market at the time. when you see the stats of countries that allow farmers to grow it you realize that this was a huge mistake on our part. seriously look that shit up if you don’t know and educate yourself.
and if anyone knows where these published reports about weed smoke being more harmful that 20 cigarettes please send it to me, i too want to educate myself. i just can’t seem to believe that’s true so put up a link or something.
She should just go have sex with all the hung black men she can find – thats the best revenge.
Starting with me, lol.
Hell, I had to toke up on a daily basis just to cope with Silverman dating Kimmel in the first place. Just couldn’t get my head around it…
i haver smoked one at night be4 bed for at least 10 years-no drama-espeacially considering a recent survey at the UK House of Commons found 90% of the toliet cistern’s had traces of coke on them-prob why we’re in such a flaming mess lol
“For some people I know, marijuana is as addictive as cocaine…”
And for some people, gambling is as addictive as commenting on stupid blog posts. Addictive personalities aside, however, alcohol is far, far greater in terms of its chemical, emotional and even social dependence manifestations (and in terms of the consequences & costs of its consumption) than any street drug. (Tobacco and herion are distant 2nd and 3rd places, respectively.)
And what should we do about it?
How did that prohibition thing work out with alcohol, anyway? And what about this drug war phenomenon, with its domino-theory (“gateway drug”), punishment-as-deterrent, and cynical prison economy?
It’s all hypocritical, “anti-American” nonsense, the real justification for which is the same as with any other scarcity economy: profit, power, and control.
See “The Union: behind the business of getting high.”
Speaking of money, how many of us know that Big Pharma is patenting the different cannaboids both in the plant and in our genomes, and who gave them the deed to the planet, anyway? By 2010, over $27 billion worth of synthetic cannaboid preparations will be controlling markets in everything from obesity treatments (go figure) to cardiac and neurological medications…mirroring, in a very opposite way, the function of homeostatic regulation that the endocannabid system has been documented to serve over the last 20 years in every one of the body’s systems, even unto the cell death previously thought to be genetically triggered. The outstanding difference, of course, is that in the body’s relationship with the environment, seen over deep spans of time as our coevolution with plants that can make us see and think differently, it’s all mutual, or, in a phrase as foreign to us as the outer reaches of space, absolutely free.
Dismantle the corporations, end the scarcity regimes, recognize our myths for what they are.
Let’s try honesty for a change.
AMEN!
cheifen with sarah is one of my dreams.
i smoke like an eighth a day yo.
i cant believe jimmy and sarah broke up..
its sad.
well im going to go light up now.
DUCES!