Matt Damon vs Jimmy Kimmel: A video timeline of TV's funniest and longest-running beef

BY TOM EAMES AND ABBY ROBINSON

 

ABC

 

Forget Blur vs Oasis or North Korea vs Seth Rogen – the most entertaining feud of the 21st century has to be Matt Damon vs Jimmy Kimmel.

 

What started as a silly gag has spiraled into something rather beautiful and arguably saved Kimmel's late night career. But what's it all about? Here's your handy guide to the history of The Great Damon And Kimmel Beef.

 

1. The closing gag

 

We'll let Jimmy explain the origins of the gag via this NPR interview:

 

"We had a bad show. 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, 'I want to apologise 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.

 

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Number 3, "I'm F**king Matt Damon!', is brilliant.