Known as one of Hollywood’s most famous potheads, Kevin Smith built a career on stoner comedy. But when it comes to one 2010 trip to Australia, the Clerks filmmaker says he still feels the sting of shame.
On the Nov. 6 episode of Hizzouse, the podcast he hosts with longtime collaborator Jason Mewes, Smith called it the most embarrassing story of his life. It began with producer Jared Geller, who had booked him to fill an open night at Carnegie Hall. That 2009 show sold out, and Geller followed it with an offer to play the Sydney Opera House.
Smith said he asked one thing before the trip: whether marijuana would be waiting when he landed. He was told yes. It wasn’t, at the airport or at the hotel.
“In my head I am like… I can’t be without weed,” he said.
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Around 8 a.m. Sydney time, he called Geller in a panic. “I’m in Sydney and there’s no weed. You said there was going to be weed,” he recalled telling him. Then, by his own account, he lost his temper. “There’s no weed here. If there ain’t no weed here soon, I got to go to where the weed is.”
Someone eventually delivered, and the August 2010 show went on. The phone call stayed with him.
“I was so ashamed by my behavior,” Smith said. “I never talked to him again.”
The silence held for years, until Smith took a flight home from New York and the man seated next to him introduced himself as the producer of his old show.
“Jared, I’ve been waiting for this moment forever,” Smith recalled saying. “I am so dreadfully sorry and embarrassed that… I called you up freaking out about the weed.”
Geller remembered the call almost word for word, Smith said, but waved it off. “He goes, ‘Don’t worry about it,’” Smith said.
The exchange was a relief after carrying the moment around since that morning in Sydney. “That felt very good,” Smith said, describing the chance to “square that circle and… apologize.” He added, “The 12 steps, if you will.”
Smith has said he did not start smoking until age 38, after sharing a joint with Seth Rogen, and in 2023 he announced he had quit after 15 years, saying he wanted to be present. On the podcast, he said a recent trip to Spain showed him he could go long stretches without it, and that his wife, Jennifer, told him he seemed clear.
Years after the Sydney show, Smith’s memory of the event was crystal clear (despite the subject matter). And the fact that his target did not hold it against him has prevented the memory from harshing his mellow all these years later.
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