First, the bad: On Monday, it was reported, she and boyfriend of five years, Jimmy Kimmel broke up.
Now, the good: On Thursday Silverman, 37, was one of those lucky enough to be nominated for an Emmy.
But, now for the weird news: the TV Academy nod is linked to what she did on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, an over-the-top music video in which she and the Sexiest Man Alive flaunted their (fictitious and funny) affair to Kimmel, all set to music in a ditty titled, “I’m F—— Matt Damon”.
The Emmy nominating committee clearly liked what it heard. Silverman is up for the gold in the category of outstanding original music and lyrics, along with her fellow writer-composers on the ditty Tony Barbieri, Wayne McClammy, Sal Iacono, and Dan Warner.
Their competition for the statuette are those who wrote the song “I Ain’t Got No Rhythm” for the Disney Channel’s Disney Phineas And Ferb; “The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)” and “Inner City Pressure,” both from HBO’s Flight of the Conchords; and “Sad Fitty Cent,” from FOX’s MADtv.
Only, so far, there’s been no reaction on her nomination from composer-comedian Silverman.
Since the breakup, in fact, there has been no comment from either Silverman or Kimmel on anything of a personal nature. He made no mention of the split on his show this week.
A Pioneer in stand up comedy, as well as the inspiration for thousands of comedians, George Carlin is with us no more. He was a personal hero, and a big part of the reason I got into comedy in the first place.
Irreverent comedian George Carlin, whose profanity-laced skewering of US political and social conventions made him a counter-culture hero, has died of heart failure at the age of 71.
Carlin died on Sunday evening at the Saint John’s Health Centre in Santa Monica, California, just hours after complaining of chest pains, publicist Jeff Abraham said. Carlin had a history of heart problems and underwent rehab in 2004 for addictions to alcohol and prescription painkillers.
He died just days after it was announced he had been awarded the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for “American Humour” by the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington. The award would have been presented this November.
“In his lengthy career as a comedian, writer and actor, George Carlin has not only made us laugh, but he makes us think,” said Stephen A Schwarzman, the Kennedy Centre chairman. “His influence on the next generation of comics has been far-reaching.”
“I’ve always been sort of anti-authoritarian and I really don’t like arbitrary rules and regulations that are essentially designed to get people in the habit of conforming,” Carlin said in a National Public Radio interview in 2004.
Born in New York in 1937, Carlin started out as a radio DJ and stand-up comedian and went on to make 23 comedy albums, 14 television specials, and win four Grammy Awards. He was famously against religion and politicians.
“I’m completely in favour of the separation of church and state,” he once said. “My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”
But his most lasting impact dates from 1972 and his bawdy routine: The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.
When he uttered all the words at a stand-up show in Milwaukee he was arrested and charged with disturbing the peace, but was later exonerated when a judge ruled he was protected by the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of speech.
However, when a New York Radio station played the routine the Supreme Court ruled in 1978 that the government had the right to censor radio stations.
Last year Carlin was voted the second-best comedian of all time behind Richard Pryor in a Comedy Central cable television station poll of network executive and industry veterans.
Carlin is survived by his second wife Sally Wade, daughter Kelly Carlin McCall and brother Patrick. His first wife, Brenda, died of cancer in 1997, and he himself had long ruminated on the end of life.
“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time,” he said.
A fierce critic of modern civilisation, Carlin told Playboy in 2005 that his vision of the afterlife included a “heavenly CNN”.
“The world is a big theatre-in-the round as far as I’m concerned, and I’d love to watch it spin itself into oblivion,” he told the magazine. “Tune in and watch the human adventure. … That’s what I want heaven to be.”
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