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All you need to do to make a funny celebrity video is to include Matt Damon acting mad. The guy does mad the best that I’ve ever seen, (I was going to write “better than any other living actor,” but I know that many of you will disagree with me) and his buddy Jimmy Kimmel knows this and capitalizes on it whenever Matt is game, which is surprisingly often. We’ve seen Matt freak out and swear at Kimmel for supposedly bumping him from his show, fight Jimmy’s sidekick Guillermo, and star in other cute segments like “Handsome Men’s Club,” “F’cking Matt Damon” and “F’cking Ben Affleck” (There’s also a non-Kimmel but staged video of Damon freaking out and swearing at Adrien Grenier for allegedly messing up a scene.) Even when Damon is acting campy in a bit he’s superb and doesn’t overplay it. I just love him so much.
Anyway Damon stars in a new Funny or Die video for 1Goal, an education charity founded by Queen Rania of Jordan in conjunction with the World Cup. He plays agitated and out of control to Jessica Alba’s woefully inadequate straight man. The video cuts away to a cute segment with John Legend complaining that no one brought him a piano and both Shakira and Queen Rania discussing 1Goal.
Damon has gained some weight and is sporting longer hair. His wife is pregnant with their third child together, which would explain Damon’s sympathetic daddy weight gain. Either that or it’s for a role. Damon is slated to play Liberace’s longterm lover in a new biopic starring Michael Douglas. Judging from pictures of the guy he’s playing, Scott Thorson, that could be why he gained weight and let his hair grow out. Damon is also reportedly in talks to play the lead in a new Cameron Crow movie based on the true story of a man who sunk his life savings into a zoo. He has no less than six films in development and several coming up that are in post production. Bourne might be over, but we’ll be getting our Damon fix for years to come.
Written by Celebitchy
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Damon is one of the best working now in my opinion. I am glad to see that he has so much coming up.I think He has an awesome believability in almost every role.
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So brokenhearted over the Bourne franchise being gone….the first one, the Bourne Identity, gave me naughty shower material that I still revert to even after all these years. It’s my LBD of fantasies.
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LOVE HIM and everything he does.
Im sure he’s gaining wt for his role too.
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Love him, love his work, love his sense of humor. HATE his wife because I am ragingly jealous of her!! Seriously, he seems to be the perfect man. Sigh…
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I just love Matt Damon. That is all.
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Great actor, plus he manages to be a huge movie star but live a fairly low key life.
That Handsome Men’s Club still makes me laugh.
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I thoroughly enjoyed that
Even Alba. Thank you for posting.
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Fantastic actor, great guy!
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I love him too. Not only do I want to be secretly married to him but I’d love to hang out with him. He’s hilarious. I was so happy to see him on 30 Rock. He’s obviously a down to earth guy who doesn’t see tv as beneath him.
I first knew I loved him when he hosted SNL and he did a sketch where he played Justin Timberlake and Amy Poehler played Britney Spears and they had a dance-off. Matt is an adorably bad dancer and he busted out his bad moves which was funny but why I truly love him is because, with all the nonsense dance moves, he never did the incredibly annoying butter churning dance move. And for that, I will always love him.
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Love love LOVE this man! Great actor, great person, want to touch his hienie.
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Ha! That is really really funny, Persistant Cat! I just about spit out my coffee!!
I think Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting is one of the reasons I held out for a blue collar boy from Boston!
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Matt Damon can seriously do no wrong. As an actor, he is in the top echelon of talent. As a person, he does live a low key life with his wife and their kids, despite being so high profile in the industry. LOVE him!
Also appreciate that he is vocal in his beliefs and is consistent. There was some clip of him awhile back saying that he was disappointed with the Obama administration to date – not taking them to task, but as a very avid supporter of Obama’s, being honest about his disappointment without backtracking on his support. Just seems so much more genuine than the Alec “I’m going to leave the country if Bush is elected president” Baldwin. Still waiting for Alec to make good on that promise…hate that I love him so much on 30 Rock.
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ugh Alba was this close to ruining it. yuck LOVE DAMON
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I wish I was f*cking Matt Damon!
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he was funny in “the informant.”
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WOW, Michael Douglas is going to play Liberace?? I wanna see that.
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he better keep working, cause child support and alimony payments are going to be a bitch, GO, Lucy, GO Lucy and this time i hope Lucy doesn’t find out about the divorce on Oprah
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@bite me – what? I’m confused. Isn’t she pregnant again? What divorce?
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yeah Lucy is pregnant again, but i don’t think the marriage will last much longer.. and the oprah thing, rememeber when matt was dating mimi driver and she found out about the break up because he told oprah that they were over…
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Matt Damon is so awesome that his mere presence even makes Jessica Alba seem kind of funny as the straight man to his crazymad! And yo, he’s in a movie about Liberace? I AM SO THERE.
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To repeat – Matt did not break up with Minnie Driver on Oprah. They broke up a couple of weeks before.
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i’m a huge fan–as an actor and how he handles the press/celebrity. his buddy, ben, not so much.
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Like him usually, but he was dreadful on 30 Rock: wooden and speaking his lines as if with a mouthful of mashed potatoes. Bring back the Hamm — the Hamm is gorgeous and does comedy to perfection!
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How to go from Gordon to Glitter Man !
Michael Douglas is Liberace !
Hugh Jackman as the very young Liberace?
Robin Williams as Seymour Heller, Liberace’s manager ?
Gary Sinise as George, Liberace’s brother ?
Kathy Bates as Frances, Liberace’s mother ?
Kirk Douglas as Salvatore, Liberace’s father ?
Kurt Russell as Elvis Presley ?
Scott Thorson is as Matt Damon !!!
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When Behind The Candelabra how to go from Gordon to GLITTER MAN !!!
Michael Douglas IS LIBERACE!!!…will be
after Matt Adore flamencoes to Liberaces
Malaguena !!!!!….Hugh Jackman as the very young Liberace? Why not for the prequel TOO ?!!!….Robin Williams as Liberace’s manager, Seymour Heller ?
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESS DYNAMIGHTY !!!
Kirk Douglas as Liberace’s father, Salvatore ? WHY THE HELL NOT ? !!!….
Kathy Bates as Liberace’s mom, Frances ?
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO INTENSELY INTERESTING!!!
Gary Sinise as Liberace’s brother,George
?… SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK !!!….
Sally Field as George’s wife, Dora ?…
( the other Ms in Ms Doubtfire )….
Kurt Russell as Elvis Presley ? His plastic surgery will be in & out in around an hour !!!…and you know I almost thought Kurt WAS Elvis ? !!!….
George Clooney as Jack Benny ?……
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESS you know he could be just as intensilly funny TOO !!!
Matt Damon IS Scott Thorson !!!…Matt
could even do “The Elton John Story” biopic if he wanted TOO !!!!!
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Imagine………
A shirtless Matt-adore…
poolside by moonlight…
twirling a red silk shirt…around
his motorcycle helmet-for-bull…
doing a mock ballet…to
Liberace playing Malaguena !!!
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