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"Apologies to Matt Damon" refers to an ongoing joke orchestrated by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, in which he apologizes to actor Matt Damon for being unable to have him on his show Jimmel Kimmel Live.

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In 2003, Jimmy Kimmel closed an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live by saying "Apologies to Matt Damon, we ran out of time." In an interview with NPR,^[1] Kimmel claims he improvised the joke following a particularly bad show in order to amuse on of the show's producers.

"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 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.

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On January 21st, 2013, the Jimmy Kimmel Live YouTube channel uploaded a montage of Kimmel apologizing to Damon for "running out of time" over the years (shown below, left). On September 28th, 2015, Jimmy Kimmel Live a segment in which Kimmel and Damon attend couples therapy to discuss the feud (shown below, right).

On February 28th, 2016, actor Ben Affleck walked on to his interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live with Matt Damon hidden underneath a large coat (shown below, left). On September 18th, the Jimmy Kimmel Live channel uploaded footage of Damon confronting Kimmel following Kimmel's loss at the Emmy Awards (shown below, right).

On October 12th, the UpRoxx YouTube channel uploaded a video on the history of the satirical feud between the two celebrities (shown below, left). On February 13th, 2017, Jimmy Kimmel Live aired a segment in which a paternity test is performed to see if Damon is the father of his wife's child (shown below, right).

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