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‘He’s a terrible human being’

Matt Damon has no plans to end his long-standing “feud” with Jimmy Kimmel as he called the late-night host a “bad” person at the premiere of his new movie, “Air.”

When asked by ET on Monday if he would ever consider burying the hatchet and moving on, Damon replied, “No, no, he’s an a–hole. Why would I ever do that?”

He continued, “He’s a terrible human being. He’s a demonstrably bad man.”

The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host walked the carpet a few paces behind Damon, while the “Jason Bourne” actor heckled him.

“Hey! I’d love to take a picture with you but we ran out of time!” he yelled to Kimmel, referencing the TV personality’s ongoing gag in which he apologizes to Damon at the end of every episode for running out of time to interview him.

Damon said Kimmel was a “bad” person.
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Damon’s feud with the late-night host stems back to 2006.
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Kimmel then told the outlet, “You know, I don’t know who that was, but yeah, I heard him. He was loud.”

When asked if the pair might consider reconciling, he responded, “I just can’t imagine it happening. I really can’t. I think we have Ben [Affleck] on tomorrow, so we’ll have that, but that will be as close as we get.”

The duo’s faux feud began in 2006 when Kimmel, 55, off-handedly joked that’d bumped Damon, 52, from an episode of his talk show.

Kimmel continues to reference the actor at the conclusion of his late-night show.
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“We had a bad show … The guests were bad, and I was feeling pretty bad about myself at the end of the program,” Kimmel told NPR in 2013.

“And I decided to say, for the amusement of one of our producers who was standing next to me, ‘I want to apologize to Matt Damon. We ran out of time.’ And he got a kick out of it, the producer, so I just started doing it every night to amuse him.”

Both Damon and Kimmel have continued committing to the bit, nearly 20 years after it began.
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He explained that Damon was just the “first name that popped into [his] head,” and there was no particular reason why he chose him.

“I was trying to think of an A-list star, and somebody we absolutely would not bump if he was on the show,” he said.

“People laugh every time I say it. Repeating the same joke every single night, you’d think eventually people would get tired of it, but they don’t.”

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John Oliver Explains Why People Want O.J. Simpson’s Opinion on Alex Murdaugh Trial in Hilarious Monologue

John Oliver briefly recapped the Alex Murdaugh murder trial in Sunday’s (March 5) episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. But the host wasn’t the only one to offer his commentary – former football player O.J. Simpson had his own thoughts on how the trial could go down.

“Of all the ill-advised pieces of commentary concerning this blockbuster trial, perhaps no one was less welcome than this,” Oliver said of Simpson’s thoughts.

He played a video that Simpson had posted to Twitter last week, which the disgraced NFL star and accused murderer captioned, “People keep asking me my opinion of the Alex Murdaugh trial.”

In it, Simpson can be seen saying, “A whole lot of people are asking me what I think about this Alex Murdaugh trial. I don’t know why they think I’m an expert on it.” 

Oliver cut in with a rather gleeful, “Oh, I do!” He continued, “I do, O.J., because there are exactly two things that you have expertise on in this life: football and murdering wives. And no one’s asking you for your take on Alex Murdaugh’s rushing average so I’m guessing it’s the second one, then.”

Murdaugh was found guilty on Thursday for murdering his wife, Maggie, and their son, Paul, in June 2021 on their hunting estate in South Carolina. After a six-week-long trial and two documentaries premiering on Netflix and HBO, there are a number of shocking takeaways in this case. 

Simpson shared his thoughts in his Twitter video just hours before the verdict was announced.

“I am not qualified to really say if the guy did it or he didn’t do it,” he acknowledged, but added, “from what I’ve seen, do I think it’s more likely that he did it? Yes. But ‘more likely’ equals reasonable doubt.” 

In 1994, the former football star was charged with killing his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. He was acquitted of the charges in 1995 but a civil suit filed in 1996 by the victims’ families found him responsible for their deaths. Simpson later spent nine years in prison on separate charges of armed robbery and kidnapping until he was released on parole in 2017.

While we now know that Murdaugh was convicted of these two murders, Simpson remarked in the video at the time, “It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if this guy beats this case.”

Murdaugh and his family have also been tied to at least two other deaths in their town of Hampton, South Carolina.

The Murdaughs come from a long line of affluent lawyers, which locals speculate granted them considerable power over the local police. Paul Murdaugh’s involvement in the death of 19-year-old Mallory Beach is what ultimately uncovered Alex Murdaugh’s string of financial crimes.



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Jimmy Kimmel Completely Avoids Discussing Quinta Brunson Emmys Debacle in ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Monologue

While Jimmy Kimmel‘s rude, scene-stealing Emmys moment was all the internet could talk about after Monday’s award ceremony, the late night host himself didn’t utter one peep about it on last night’s episode of his eponymous talk show.

Kimmel — who upstaged Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson as she accepted the award for outstanding writing for a comedy series by lying at her feet during her speech — never mentioned his immature antics in his Tuesday Jimmy Kimmel Live monologue.

Although Kimmel had plenty to say about the 2022 Emmys, including a story about Andrew Garfield‘s IRL superhero skills and a dig about the show’s ratings, he steered clear of his own headline-making stunt after getting blasted on Twitter for his “infuriating” and “irritating” bit.

Viewers were unimpressed after Kimmel was dragged onstage to present the comedy writing award with Will Arnett, but remained onstage during Brunson’s speech even after she tried to “wake him up” as she accepted the Emmy.

Before last night’s show, Kimmel briefly addressed his rage-inducing stunt at an Emmys after-party. The comedian told Entertainment Tonight on Monday that he was oblivious while Brunson was accepting her award.

“I had my eyes closed, I had no idea where I was. It was one of the weirdest things that’s ever happened to me,” he said.

He can claim he had “no idea” where he was, but Kimmel did flash a quick thumbs-up at Brunson, so we’re calling B.S. on that excuse.

If you ask Brunson though, the whole thing is nothing more than a joke from someone she considers to be a “comedy godfather.” The writer and actor brushed off Kimmel’s bit in a video shared by Variety after the Emmys.

“I felt like the bit didn’t bother me that much. I don’t know what the internet thinks,” she said, in part, before joking, “Tomorrow maybe I’ll be mad at him. I’m going to be on his show on Wednesday, so I might punch him in the face. I don’t know, we’ll see what happens.”

That’s right — Kimmel and Brunson are meeting again just days after the Emmys, where their buzzy awards show moment is sure to come up … and she just might knock him out. Watch it live when Jimmy Kimmel Live airs tonight at 11:35/10:35c on ABC.



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