Overview
- The stunt aired Thursday night when a delivery brought a large and a small wooden horse onto Jimmy Kimmel Live! and the big horse split open to reveal Matt Damon.
- Damon used the surprise to plug The Odyssey, telling Kimmel the film is due July 17 and quipping about hiding in the Trojan horse to get on the show.
- The two traded insults on air, escalated into a brief pool-noodle scuffle, and the studio audience greeted Damon with loud applause and a standing ovation.
- Producers staged the gag as part of Kimmel and Damon’s long-running, 21-year faux feud that began in 2005 and has produced repeated surprise cameos and charity crossovers.
- Clips from the segment quickly went viral and outlets treated the episode as a publicity stunt rather than evidence of any real falling-out between the two entertainers.