Sarah Silverman talks new man Michael Sheen with ex Jimmy Kimmel

Awkward much? Sarah Silverman stopped by her ex-boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show on Thursday to talk about her new boyfriend, Michael Sheen.

The “Million Ways to Die in the West” star’s Thursday appearance marks her first return to “Jimmy Kimmel Live” since its host married show writer Molly McNearney in July 2013. When Silverman visited the show in November 2013, she brought back a box of Kimmel’s stuff. (There was a major purse gag this time around, but we’ll get to that later.)

The comedic duo, who launched the viral “I’m ... Matt Damon” video and its many response parodies, split in 2008, but their relationship has continued to be a running joke on the show.

Kimmel broached the topic by bringing up Silverman’s Emmy Award for writing in a variety special, specifically her acceptance speech in which she thanked Largo club owner Mark Flanagan for introducing her to her “love, Mr. Fancy Pants Sheen.”

The host followed up the speech clip with a quick quip: “Now, I believe that half of America thinks you’re dating Charlie Sheen,” he said.

However, the “We Are Miracles” writer didn’t let that deter her from praising her new beau, who stars in Showtime’s “Masters of Sex,” and laying into Kimmel.

“He’s the best at what he does, he’s so good,” she said, with the audience cracking up at Kimmel’s expense. “I think he is. I just, I really am so happy to have him be a part of my life and to get to be a part of his life. And I realized, like, I don’t think I ever really knew what love was. I don’t think I’ve ever really been in love before, I realized, you know what I mean?

“And you guys have so much in common! Like, he starred in ‘Frost/Nixon’ and you were the fat guy on ‘Win Ben Stein’s Money.’”

The zingers kept coming, even when she talked about meeting Michael Sheen’s Welsh family.

“They don’t have Jews in Wales, I’m pretty sure,” she said. “His mother, I think she thinks I can grant wishes. That’s leprechauns. Jews don’t have pots of gold; we just love pot and gold.”

She added that Sheen also met her family, and she believes her dad likes him more than he liked Kimmel, or as her dad referred to him, “Jimmy who?”

Kimmel also brought up Silverman’s off-the-cuff Emmy shenanigans: being barefoot as she ran to accept her award and revealing to E!’s Giuliana Rancic that she had liquid pot in her clutch.

“I didn’t know there was going to be a Clutch Cam or whatever she asked me. I have no shame about it. It’s not a big deal to me. Pot is legal here, and I like to have a little puff-aroonie at the end of the night,” she said.

“It’s so crazy that it was some big bananas big deal that I had a little pot thing, and meanwhile you have to walk around the Emmys in a sea of drunken, terrifying, scary people -- you know I’m afraid of drunk people! -- I don’t like it, but I had a little puff at the end of the night like a lady.”

“Plus I have a prescription. I have a serious medical condition,” she said, qualifying her response this way: “I have a condition that makes me not realize how delicious Pop-Tarts are and also that reruns of ‘The Nanny’ are funny.”

That’s when they decided to go through her clutch again, with Kimmel discovering an Afro pick, a Netflix envelope containing “Space Jam,” a handgun she claimed was for “a bit,” lipstick, a yard-long sheet of condoms and a picture of an overweight Kimmel.

Silverman also traded barbs with the host in honor of the late Joan Rivers, who died Thursday.

“She was a hero to me, and I love her very much,” Silverman said. “I think a lot of people, when they die at 81, you go, ‘Well, she was 81, she had an amazing life.’ But she wasn’t done. She, right now, was at her most vital. Oh, my God, I tuned into ‘Fashion Police’ every Friday because they were the most hard-core jokes on TV. You just can’t believe that she’s saying them.

“She never stopped writing, and I know that if she was here she’d would want us to be here and be funny. And she’d probably want me to say, ‘Nice tie. Who made it? Calvin Clown? I like that shirt. Does it come in men’s? Oh, my gosh, Jimmy, I love your hair! You have to tell me where you bought it ... . That’s for you, Joan.”

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