It's funny how Jimmy smoked a little weed and drank a 6 pack of wine coolers at 17 and talks like he was some hardcore addict who needed AA and acts like he's been recovering for 40 years, meanwhile all this time ignores his real addiction to cock. Norton needs to go to Tranny Anonymous and take Cumia with him.
I agree with
@John Andrews Stan 100%. Not everyone who goes to 12 step groups has completely crashed out on life. I never had any legal or serious interpersonal issues with my drinking, but I still drank excessively and needed help. Some guys in my group did hard time. Everyone is different. The problem, as JAS highlighted, is Jimmy seems to struggle with his bad behaviour years after.
What a lot of people have pointed out, even before the O&A split, is that Jimmy still acts like a fucking asshole and has a lot of addict behaviour even though he's sober. That's the whole "dry drunk" concept: someone who is not using alcohol, drugs, or doing whatever their addiction is (e.g. sex addicts being good boys, gambling addicts not gambling, whatever the case may be), but has not addressed the underlying problems that led to their addiction.
The core of 12 step programs is not cessation of addictive behaviours and, despite what people think, it's not the God stuff. It's the part of the program where you actually write out and acknowledge all the fucked up ways that you behave and then work on changing them; or, at the very least, mitigating them.
I would be very curious to know what Jimmy’s “bottom lines” are.
I’d also be curious to know which of the sex 12 Step groups Jim goes to. Some of them are more frequented by fags and trannies than straight people. I can imagine him going to the ones dominated by heterosexuals and telling the whole room how he’s a “straight” guy married to a dude.
I actually get the impression that Jimmy goes to very liberal groups that tolerate relapses and don't give him any shit. At least with AA, the heterosexual rooms filled with old white guys will tell you to your face that you're fucking up and need to get your shit together. Also, a
lot of stand-up comedians go to AA, including some very famous ones that I have met more than once and will not name, and I highly doubt Jimmy wants to run into those people and have to face them.
Jimmy is a coward and a worm who never faces uncomfortable situations, which is why him and Anthony get along so well.