Jul 14 2008
Famous funny couple calling it quits
According to Us Magazine, Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel have officially split. The comedy couple had recently celebrated their five-year anniversary. Around the same time, Kimmel commemorated the five-year anniversary of his late night talk show. Silverman contributed a special music video to the show to mark the occasion. Entitled ”I’m Fucking Matt Damon,” the song quickly became a YouTube sensation. Kimmel retaliated good-naturedly with “I’m Fucking Ben Affleck,” which features cameos by Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford and Cameron Diaz.
The couple met at a roast for Hugh Hefner, where, during her routine, Silverman called Kimmel fat and joked that he had no charisma. Apparently Kimmel overlooked the insults, as he soon hired her to do voices in Comedy Central’s Crank Yankers. Silverman says, “[It was] around the second season of that we started hanging out. A while after that he kissed me.”
Before that, Kimmel had been married for 14 years. I was surprised to learn that he’s 40. I still kind of think of him as the boyish, flannel shirt-wearing sidekick to Ben Stein on the Comedy Central game show. Silverman has said she won’t marry until gay marriage is legal, but is she joshing us?
