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Source: 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Head Writer Not F**king Jimmy Kimmel
Posted by Seth at 4:50 AM on July 17, 2008
Yesterday, we noted a Gawker item suggesting that Molly McNearney, who swiftly ascended the Jimmy Kimmel Live! ranks from lowly Chinese Theatre Chewbacca-wrangling assistant to that show's head writer, had been the woman who came between Kimmel and Sarah Silverman. A Defamer tipster who knows McNearny wrote us to say this couldn't be further from the truth:
She is absolutely NOT banging Jimmy Kimmel. She was promoted from assistant to staff writer, and then from staff writer to head writer. Where's the controversy there? That's kinda how it works in this biz.
Also, as a matter of interest, Molly has been with her boyfriend for 3 years, and believe it or not was in Africa ministering to orphans when this story broke (that's not sarcasm, I swear). The truth is that one of Jimmy's BFFs works as a writer on the show, and Molly and another writer tried to let him go. He complained to Jimmy, got his job reinstated, and then sought a little revenge via the interwebs. The sad thing is that this is tearing Molly up.Sounds like a real viper's nest in there. In fairness, if Jimmy's reinstated BFF wants to weigh in with his own version of events, we'll gladly post that, too. C'mon, Uncle Frank: Let your voice be heard!
- Previously: 'Us Weekly' Liveblogs Sarah Silverman's Post-Jimmy Kimmel-Breakup Brunch Of Despair [Defamer]
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City_Dater
Posted 5:30 AM 17/7/08
So she's the head writer now, but has to keep Kimmel's friend on staff even if she wants to fire his ass? Maybe she needs to start sleeping with the boss, gross as that would be.
City_Dater
kookla
Posted 5:24 AM 17/7/08
Wow. This makes the Leno-Conan rivalry seem tame by comparison. Which it is, by the way. Really tame.
kookla
jasonelias
Posted 5:17 AM 17/7/08
Well no woman's going to admit to fucking Jimmy Kimmel. I'm surprised Sarah Silverman did but then I chalked it up to one of her personalities having TMI issues.
jasonelias
TheHonJudgeSmails
Posted 5:14 AM 17/7/08
Maybe she's not fucking him "literally," but his writers have been "fucking" him for years!
TheHonJudgeSmails
Tiger_Tanaka
Posted 5:12 AM 17/7/08
Sleeping with the boss does work in the "biz" though.
Tiger_Tanaka
WGARefugee
Posted 5:11 AM 17/7/08
There's only one way for Kimmel to solve this problem fairly and equitably: hire a professional backbiter from the League of Unwitting and Unpaid Content Providers (LUUCP). We turn troublesome staff into chum--with fun!
WGARefugee
GeorgeClooneysGirlfriend
Posted 5:05 AM 17/7/08
Oh, THAT'S how it works in the biz. I'm gonna tell that to my sugar daddy next time i see him!
GeorgeClooneysGirlfriend
metroville
Posted 5:00 AM 17/7/08
Glad that's settled. Moving on...what scurrilous rumor can we start about a person who utilizes the term "biz" without irony?
metroville
Breadbowl
Posted 5:58 AM 17/7/08
Adam Carolla! Is that you?!?
Breadbowl
Old No.7
Posted 5:41 AM 17/7/08
His show is still on the air?
Old No.7
NoWireHangers
Posted 6:19 AM 17/7/08
Yeah, I'd be torn up too if people thought I was fucking Jimmy Kimmel.
NoWireHangers
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 6:17 AM 17/7/08
"(that's not sarcasm, I swear).
Yeah, we know. FYI, but that is .
Little Mintz Sunshine
TheHonJudgeSmails
Posted 6:06 AM 17/7/08
@TerseNursePornstein: Cheers!
TheHonJudgeSmails
OldTowneTavern
Posted 6:04 AM 17/7/08
"I'm not fucking Jimmy Kimmel,"
"(She's not fucking Jimmy Kimmel.)"
"While you're typing innuendo."
"I'm not fucking Jimmy Kimmel."
"(She's not fucking Jimmy Kimmel.)"
"No entrada mi pudendo".
OldTowneTavern
TerseNursePornstein
Posted 6:03 AM 17/7/08
Whatever it is you people over here confer as a reward for funny comments, give one of 'em to Smails.
TerseNursePornstein
SW-2
Posted 6:54 AM 17/7/08
Meanwhile, Sarah Silverman is kicking herself for never having come up with "ministering to orphans" as a punchline.
SW-2
mwynn13
Posted 7:11 AM 17/7/08
So if a female writer quickly ascends to head writer, she's obviously got to be sleeping with the boss, and nobody questions whether that's gossip or sour grapes. Sexism in Hollywood? Nooooo!
mwynn13
fembot
Posted 7:11 AM 17/7/08
@SW-2: not just garden variety orphans; poor starving african orphans ala Jolie.. the sanitized american version doesn't count..
fembot
WGARefugee
Posted 7:46 AM 17/7/08
@mwynn13: Well there goes Defamer's claim to being the most politically correct blog in Hollywood. Gawker's going to have to bring in crisis counselors.
WGARefugee
rudeboy7969
Posted 7:43 AM 17/7/08
Are you sure this isn't one big prank by Cousin Sal?
rudeboy7969
ShanghaiLil
Posted 8:27 AM 17/7/08
Besides, I thought Andy Dick was fucking Jimmy Kimmel. Let's face it -- it'd be a step up from Sarah Silverman.
ShanghaiLil
CourageousCoward
Posted 8:22 AM 17/7/08
She's not fucking him, okay? She's just blowing him. And licking his (accorsing to Sarah) Cisco-Adler-sized balls.
CourageousCoward
GuyBitchy
Posted 8:08 AM 17/7/08
What's tearing her up?
What could possibly be more embarrassing than the fact she's head writer of the Jimmy Kimmel show?
There aren't enough orphans in Africa to cleanse that sin, baby...
GuyBitchy
Elkie
Posted 11:55 AM 17/7/08
Working with orphans in Africa = swallowing cum under Jimmy's desk.
Elkie
gwendemarco
Posted 12:20 PM 17/7/08
But what about the children? The children!???!!!
gwendemarco
Losin_it
Posted 12:31 PM 17/7/08
@gwendemarco: May the children grow up in a world in which they don't have to blow a Jimmy Kimmel to get ahead.
Losin_it
WGARefugee
Posted 5:01 PM 17/7/08
I'm a little confused. Are head comedy writers not supposed to have a sense of humor?
WGARefugee
Sloan
Posted 5:34 AM 20/7/08
Word on the streets of the 'biz' is that Kimmel is feeling optimistic, his optimism is in full surrender actually, and he has a tiny icicle in his heart for no one, not right now, not since Silverman has been Audi 5000.
Sloan
hoodrat
Posted 2:47 PM 17/7/08
It's 2008, right? Can we puhhhlease stop assuming that every time a woman is promoted it's because she banged somebody to get there? Plus, a little fact checking wouldn't hurt. Seriously. 2008.
hoodrat
EvilMeerkat
Posted 5:13 AM 17/7/08
Don't you love the line about how she's helping the orphans in Africa. OMG. She MUST be a saint, then.
EvilMeerkat