Why does jimmy fallon hate matt damon

A lot of people have seemed to take the joke seriously and believe the feud to be real. There is, however, no enmity between the two celebrities. Jimmy and Matt have even played out this fake feud in public. The two were photographed all over the game, standing next to one another with straight faces.

Since then, Jimmy has made clarifications regarding the feud. He explained how it originated back in due to a bad received show. That particular night, neither the audience nor the guests had enjoyed coming on the show. I have no idea why I said you; it could have been anybody. Damon actually appeared on the show in They showed a long supercut of all the times Kimmel had made the joke, so by the time Damon came out on stage Kimmel had to cut the interview short after a few seconds.

As the credits were rolling, Damon was seen yelling "Go f--k yourself," and walking off set. He later confirmed it was a joke, and it all escalated from there. Over the next 14 years, both of them really lean into their "feud".

In , Damon teamed up with Kimmel's then-girlfriend Sarah Silverman to make a video where she sang a song about sleeping with Damon. 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. It seems like a fair question to ask if you just picked up on the occasional random insult and over-the-top appearance that one of them makes to fire a shot at the other.

Kimmel explained in an interview with NPR :. We ran out of time. I was trying to think of an A-list star, and somebody we absolutely would not bump if he was on the show. I mean, people laugh every time I say it. You can watch the highlights from that takeover show right here. Because things may have gone a little too far, Jimmy and Matt tried couples counseling. Matt Damon was just the first name that popped into my head. I was trying to think of an A-list star, and somebody we absolutely would not bump if he was on the show.

The battle gradually escalated from there, often in intentionally bizarre ways. In , Damon did a bit where he took over an entire episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! Damon is famous and generally well-liked, which is exactly the combination that tends to sell jokes in a theater full of very famous people who hope to be well-liked. It just got more exhausting. Bringing it to the much larger scale of the Oscars stage emphasized its status as a one-note bit that has long overstayed its welcome, making a solid case that Kimmel and Damon need to bury their fake hatchet and move on.

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