Forget wardrobe malfunctions or fashion faux pas on the red carpet because being drunk or high trumps everything at an awards show, as illustrated by comedian Sarah Silverman at the Emmys.
While Julia Roberts in her Elie Saab mini dress and Julia Louis-Dreyfus decked out in Carolina Herrera looked stunning, Silverman was stoned, or at least appeared to be.
“This is, uh, my pot. My liquid pot,” Silverman told E! Host Giuliana Rancic as she rifled through her handbag to show off its contents for the network’s latest addition to red carpet reportage – the “Clutch Cam”.
Inside her purse Silverman had all the essentials that a teetotaller requires for an epic awards show.
“I’ve got my phone, pot and gum,” she said showing off her portable vaporiser filled with marijuana.
“I don’t drink, I’m a light weight but I’ll have a puff here and there and at the Governor’s Ball [the official Emmys after party] what have you.”
During the awkward three minute interview with Rancic, something we haven’t seen since this year’s Oscars when Cate Blanchett yelled at an E! camera operator for giving her outfit the once over, Silverman mocked the presenter before walking off.
“Why do you put the microphone in front of me, you didn’t say a question. You’re just like ‘Hey, you’re dressed like a nominee’,” Silverman yelled at Rancic.
“I don’t get paid enough to ask questions ok I just put a microphone there and expect you to do the work,” Rancic snapped before Silverman was distracted by a side view of her breasts in her low cut gown.
“Ah look at my boobs. This is the higher one,” she started before Rancic attempted to get the interview back on track.
“No listen, here, look this way. Your boobs are very perfect.”
When asked who she was wearing, her reply was the reason she was nominated: “I’m wearing Marni, the character from Girls… Marni with an ‘i’… obviously you don’t know fashion,” she said to Rancic who was beginning to look like a blonde deer caught in headlights.
