at a lost for werds…

I’ve been wathcing funny or die every now and then and I got to view this hilarious vid by talks show host Jimmy Kimmel and it was rofl kind of stuff. It turns out that it was a reply to his girlfriend, stand-up comedy performer Sarah Silverman’s video.

Sarah Silverman’s Video Clip

Jimmy Kimmel’s Response

Why Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel’s videos are a YouTube hit
Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel’s spoof videos about their sex lives – featuring Matt Damon and a small galaxy of Hollywood stars – are an internet sensation]In a dark and cluttered office deep within Hollywood’s former Masonic Temple, Jimmy Kimmel is slumped on an L-shaped sofa, looking ruffled and a little hung over. Cuddled up next to him is his girlfriend, Sarah Silverman, who is dressed (in Kimmel’s words) “like Rocky Balboa in training”, as if in defiance of her recent status as a Maxim cover girl. Kimmel is 40 and Silverman 37, but the two of them might as well still be in college: in fact, they look ready to settle down for a Big Night In with a curry and a selection of ironically bad television. “Honk,” says Kimmel, prodding Silverman.

“This is how romantic he is,” she complains, starting to get up. “He’ll just grab my breast and say ‘honk’. Even if we’re across the room from each other, he’ll mouth it to me. There’ll be a whole group of people and our eyes will meet and he’ll go like this [mouths the word ‘honk'].”

“I can’t help it,” says Kimmel, sheepishly. “I have sexual clown fantasies.”

Welcome, everyone, to the strange and often explicit world of America’s king and queen of comedy: a couple who have suddenly found themselves on Hollywood’s A list thanks to an in-joke that turned into one of the biggest celebrity collaborations since We Are The World – only with actors such as Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford instead of Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.

It took off a month ago with a video clip that Silverman made for Kimmel, entitled I’m F***ing Matt Damon, featuring the actor himself – who agrees. Last week Kimmel released his reply: another clip with another star, I’m F***ing Ben Affleck.

The two clips have now gone viral, in the biggest possible way, on YouTube – each one has been viewed more than eight million times – and both featured in Kimmel’s post-Oscars show, which managed, in a miserable year for ratings, almost completely to upstage the ceremony itself. All of which raises an obvious question: how on earth did this unlikely Catholic/Jewish couple – neither of whom could seriously be considered a “power player” in Hollywood – pull off such an incredible stunt?

(more…)