Emmys 2016: Matt Damon Calls Jimmy Kimmel a ‘Big Loser’
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Actor Matt Damon (L) and host Jimmy Kimmel speak onstage during the 68th Emmy Awards show on September 18, 2016 at the Microsoft Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. / AFP / Valerie MACON
The Jimmy Kimmel/Matt Damon “feud” is the longest running joke in late night since Larry “Bud” Melman, and it bled into the Emmy ceremony tonight. After Jimmy Kimmel Live! lost the Variety/Talk award to Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Damon came out on stage gnawing on an apple, Good Will Hunting-style. He asked who won, and Jimmy painfully told him, and Damon celebrating, saying he had Oliver in his pool.
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Then he told the audience to cheer for the “big loser,” and walked off stage talking about an afterparty that Jimmy wasn’t invited to. “Tell your mom I like them apples,” he exclaimed.
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