Watch Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel Reignite Their Feud on ‘Millionaire'
Kimmel currently hosts and executive produces the ABC game show, which premiered its fourth season last week. Damon appeared on the latest episode as a contestant, playing alongside a secret weapon, Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings. The duo made it through all of the rounds to the final million-dollar query: 'Which of these words is used to describe one of the most beautiful auditory effects on Earth: the sound made by the leaves of trees when wind blows through them?'
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Jennings suggested the pair play it safe by removing two answers, which annoyed Kimmel. 'You know you could have won this own your own?' Kimmel told Jennings. Damon acknowledged, 'It is so awesome having Ken Jennings as your partner in a trivia game. I can't even tell you.'
Jennings then said to the audience, 'Everybody but Jimmy Kimmel, do we love Matt Damon or what?' Kimmel responded by boo-ing, leading Damon to quip, 'Thank you so much! You are making him so miserable right now.'
'You're turning this into an uprising,' Kimmel told Jennings. 'I'm coming onto Jeopardy! with someone you hate!'
Damon and Jennings ultimately won $1 million for Damon's nonprofit Water.org, which helps bring clean water to communities in need. 'This is the least dramatic million-dollar moment in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire history,' Kimmel noted when they claimed victory. As he handed the duo their giant check, Kimmel reached out to Damon and said, 'I'm begrudgingly going to shake your hand.'
Kimmel and Damon have been playing along with their pretend rivalry since 2005 when Kimmel introduced a bit on Jimmy Kimmel Live where he feigned cutting Damon from air. 'I want to apologize to Matt Damon, we ran out of time,' the late-night host joked. Since then, the pair have continued the bit, even involving people like Ben Affleck in the feud.
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