Did Jimmy Kimmel Actually Compliment Matt Damon?! | IMO

0:00 All right, this is a game called spill or compliment.

0:02 Okay.

0:03 Uh, so, Jimmy, remind us.

0:05 How long have you been doing your show?

0:08 23 years and one month.

0:11 And we're assuming you've accumulated your fair share of guest stories.

0:15 Oh, yeah.

0:16 So we have a game Misha and I want to play with you.

0:18 Okay.

0:19 We will take turns asking you a question,

0:22 and you can either answer the question,

0:24 or if you choose not to answer the question,

0:27 you have to give Matt Damon a compliment right here, right now, to his face.

0:34 Picture.

0:34 This is brutal.

0:36 We have a photo just so you could, uh.

0:39 Can I point something out?

0:40 That this photo is obviously taken on the set of a talk show.

0:44 Not mine.

0:45 Definitely not mine.

0:49 Well, that'll make it even more difficult for you to compliment it.

0:53 So Misha's gonna start.

0:54 Are we ready?

0:55 What's the angriest letter you've received after your Halloween candy bit?

1:01 Oh, yeah.

1:02 Kids.

1:02 Um, you know, some of those kids, they grew up.

1:07 You know, we did it for, like, 10 years.

1:09 And, um, some of them.

1:11 It is funny.

1:13 Like, some of them still, like, harbor a little bit of resentment.

1:16 You know, a lot of people.

1:19 It's funny, um, that Halloween candy thing where

1:21 you take the candy away from the kids,

1:24 um, I never saw it as anything but hilarious.

1:27 But there apparently are people who have, um,

1:30 a level of decency, I guess, maybe, who thought it was cruel.

1:35 But I always said, like, what are you talking about?

1:38 My kids cry, like, 34 times a day.

1:40 Like, it's one more time.

1:44 Not like, I'm actually eating their candy.

1:46 And nowadays, parents are playing pranks

1:48 on their kids on social media all the time.

1:51 Uh, you know, so.

1:52 All right, Craig, what you think?

1:53 All right, so that was a sp.

1:55 Spill.

1:55 All right, all right, next one.

1:57 Which guest gave you a gift you immediately re gifted to a producer?

2:05 Oh, that happens.

2:07 That happens a good deal.

2:09 Okay.

2:10 I get a lot of weird gifts.

2:12 Sometimes people make food for me, and they bring it.

2:15 Uh, but it's always, like, the time they bring it.

2:19 And after six hours that elapse, you know, it's like, what am I gonna.

2:25 Am I gonna now eat this lasagna?

2:27 Uh, at midnight?

2:28 What am I supposed to have this?

2:29 So that does happen from time to time.

2:31 I get a lot of alcohol, so.

2:33 And, you know, I don't drink much, so I.

2:36 I do give a lot of that away.

2:37 Okay.

2:38 All right.

2:39 I did have a guest make me a work of art

2:41 once that I wanted no part of in my home.

2:45 And, um.

2:45 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

2:49 A library comes in handy for stuff like that.

2:51 Yeah, I need to get a library.

2:53 My presidential library.

2:54 Yeah, try one of those.

2:56 All right.

2:56 Which show moment lives in your head at 3am M.

3:00 For no good reason?

3:02 Um.

3:03 For no good reason.

3:05 Well, um.

3:06 Okay.

3:06 One of the more embarrassing things that happened on the show

3:10 was I had Calista Flockhart, uh, on the show.

3:13 And did you notice how much trouble I had even just saying Calista Flockhart?

3:18 I had more trouble with it on the air.

3:22 And, um, instead of her first name, I named a female body part.

3:27 Oh.

3:27 Um.

3:28 Oh.

3:29 And the audience roared.

3:32 And I was so embarrassed.

3:35 I just slowly sunk down behind my desk as she watched me go.

3:40 I was beet red.

3:42 I was so embarrassed.

3:46 That's a good one.

3:46 That's a good one.

3:47 Yes.

3:48 Yes.

3:48 All right.

3:49 You're not getting any compliments.

3:50 I know.

3:51 Really?

3:51 He's spilling everything.

3:52 You're getting nothing out of me.

3:55 Who is?

3:56 Someone you prayed would cancel five minutes before air time.

4:01 Spoke too soon.

4:04 Well, that hasn't happened very much.

4:07 It probably has only happened like 4 times in 23 years where people like.

4:14 And usually they're vomiting or something like that.

4:16 Um, but yeah, we've had Gary Busey on the show,

4:20 which always seems like a good idea until it happens.

4:25 So maybe.

4:27 Gary, which relative has been the most honest with you about a bad episode?

4:36 Oh, um, let's see.

4:38 Which relative.

4:39 Well, none of them are that, you know, with the kids probably.

4:43 Okay, yeah, the kids.

4:45 Like my son.

4:46 My son Will sometimes he works at the show.

4:49 Be like, oh, that was, you know, that was a long night.

4:54 What does he do on the show?

4:56 Did you say?

4:56 He works in the social media department.

4:58 Oh, cool.

4:59 Yeah, yeah.

5:00 So he really knows.

5:01 He's like, I'm looking at the camera.

5:02 He's got to figure out what to highlight.

5:04 Sometimes there's nothing.

5:08 Uh, this is.

5:09 This is one we can relate to.

5:11 Which a Lister gave you the most

5:14 terrifying pre interview list of forbidden topics.

5:18 Oh, okay.

5:19 Yeah, that does happen sometimes.

5:21 Also, um, generally, I will just say maybe we shouldn't do the interview.

5:27 That's usually how it goes.

5:30 I don't think it's my right to pry into their personal lives.

5:33 So, um, I always go, yeah, of course, you know, we won't talk about that.

5:38 There are some times I will tell you.

5:41 We.

5:42 Early in the show, I used to have a guest host with me every night for a week.

5:47 They'd be there for a whole week.

5:49 And Monica Lewinsky was the.

5:50 Was the guest host.

5:52 And, um, this is 2003.

5:55 Okay.

5:56 So it's not like new, but it's you know, it's in the neighborhood.

6:00 Right.

6:01 And, um, uh, we booked it, and then she came on the show,

6:05 and right before she came on, she's like,

6:07 oh, by the way, no mentions of President Clinton.

6:10 You're like, why do you think you're right?

6:13 And, um, it was.

6:15 It was confusing, to say the least.

6:17 Right, Right.

6:18 So that was probably number one.

6:19 I think that's a good one.

6:21 We talk about handbags for a week.

6:22 Oh, my gosh.

6:24 Okay.

6:25 Which celebrity guest had the strongest?

6:28 My publicist made me do this.

6:30 Energy.

6:31 Um.

6:32 Jared Leto.

6:34 Really?

6:36 Yeah.

6:36 Jared Leto.

6:37 Uh, yeah.

6:38 He can't.

6:39 Yeah.

6:40 This is a long time ago, actually.

6:42 Now that I think about.

6:43 He didn't even do the show.

6:44 You know what he did?

6:45 He canceled on us and then was on Carson Daly's talk show that night and, um.

6:51 Uh, laughing about canceling on us.

6:54 Oh.

6:54 And, uh.

6:55 Yeah.

6:55 And that's something I don't forget.

6:57 I don't forget any of that stuff.

7:02 It's like spilled tea spilled everywhere.

7:06 Uh.

7:07 All right, this one.

7:09 Kiss, marry, Kill.

7:11 Fallon, Colbert, Myers.

7:14 Okay.

7:14 Oh, boy.

7:15 You know, I don't love the kill.

7:18 I'd rather.

7:19 I'd rather fuck them all than kill any of them.

7:22 You know what I'm gonna do?

7:24 I'm going to, um, give, um,

7:26 this little man a compliment instead of answering that question,

7:29 and I am going to say, you know, almost all of the Alphabet.

7:40 Oh, and our final question.

7:42 Who got a standing ovation that absolutely did not deserve one on the show?

7:48 On the show?

7:49 Me.

7:50 No.

7:50 Yeah.

7:51 Every night, uh.

7:52 Every night I come out there, and my warmup guy's like, everybody get up.

7:57 I'm like, oh, for God's sake.

7:58 And you know what?

7:59 They do it to me at rehearsal, too.

8:01 And that's really, uh.

8:02 What drives me nuts, is I walk in a rehearsal, and they all.

8:05 And this is not done in a sincere way.

8:08 It's done just to mess with me.

8:11 They all stand up and applaud, and I, uh.

8:13 You know, I'm dragging myself in from.

8:15 From the house, and I get there, and they all clap.

8:19 But the problem is new employees don't know it's a joke.

8:23 And, like.

8:24 And they'll be like, oh, my.

8:25 And I obsess over this.

8:27 Like, they're going to think that I'm making you guys, you know, whatever.

8:30 And they like it even more.

8:32 Yeah.

8:32 Yeah.

8:33 Jimmy, thank you so much.

8:36 Thanks for having me.