Why does kimmel matt damon

Now Damon is opening up about the origin of the playful feud and it turns out it was nothing that was planned. And the way he told me this story, he said he had like a, he said I had a ventriloquist and a guy in a gorilla suit as my guests.

And I just said kind of as a throwaway, 'my apologies to Matt Damon, we ran out of time,' but he could have said Brad Pitt. He could have said, you know, George. He could have said somebody else, but he just, for some reason, maybe I had a movie out that week or something, but he just said my name. And it changed the course of both of our lives. The following year Kimmel released a copy of the video starring Ben Affleck , Damon's best friend.

Every few months, Kimmel featured sketches on his show prolonging the feud. In for the show's 10th anniversary, Damon took over hosting duties for the night. He renamed the show Jimmy Kimmel Sucks! Damon finally made it onto Kimmel's show as a guest with the cast of The Monuments Men — they were all seated on a couch while Damon was on an uncomfortable stool off to the side.

But a "fire alarm" went off as soon as Kimmel asked him a question , and the interview was over. In , they tried out some couples counselling to see if they could resolve their feud but things didn't really end well.

The following year, Damon snuck on the set of Kimmel's show inside Ben Affleck's coat, but Kimmel threw him out. When JimKim hosted the Oscars in , he took it as his moment to really roast Damon. He did an entire sketch harshly criticising Damon's film We Bought A Zoo , he got the announcer to introduce him as only the unnamed "guest" of Ben Affleck, and then personally conducted the orchestra to play over the top of Damon talking.

The 'feud' between the two is still going on and is as strong as ever. Just last week, Damon appeared on the show. Kimmel had been filming the show from his house amid the COVID pandemic, and had just announced he'd be taking a hiatus over summer. So, at the end of the night, Kimmel took a chance — one that would change everything. The guests were bad, and I was feeling pretty bad about myself at the end of the program. And I decided to say, for the amusement of one of our producers who was standing next to me We ran out of time,'" Kimmel told NPR in Wanting to pick a celebrity they would not bump, Kimmel chose Damon.

Even Kimmel can't believe the joke's longevity.