How a (Scripted) Kiss Got Sarah Silverman Fired From a 1995 NBC Sitcom
by Chris Gardner
March 13, 2021


During a March 6 RushTix live stream Q&A event, Sarah Silverman shared the pink slip anecdote by detailing how she got cast on the NBC sitcom "Pride & Joy" not long after landing in L.A. and she suddenly found herself opposite an impressive cast in Caroline Rhea, Jeremy Piven and Craig Bierko.

"I looked 15 and was hired to play a wife, mother, architect in New York City," she says, with Bierko playing her character's husband.




But when the script called for the couple to kiss, that's when things got slippery as Silverman played the part too French.

"I just fully did an open-mouth tongue kiss every time. I didn't know better and nobody said anything!" Silverman said her only reference was "Happy Days" and "they made out hard in that," she joked.

Rather than correct her tongue, she quipped that producers must've thought it "easier to just fire me." (She was replaced by Julie Warner and Pride & Joy went bust, airing only six episodes before getting canceled in May 1995.)

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