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My imaginary husband Matt Damon (sorry, wonderful real husband) was on The Late Show last night. Matt was recently rumored to be dead when a very obviously fake story began circulating that he had somehow died in the Palo Verde mountains earlier this week. Damon explained to Letterman that he was alive and well, and then he told his own personal story about helping start an Internet rumor, one that resulted in a chubby hirsute man stripping for George Clooney and begging for a kiss:
The very-much-alive Matt Damon turned up on the Late Show With David Letterman last night and, aside from breathing, made some news by offering a possible explanation for buddy George Clooney being ambushed by a clothes-eschewing would-be gay lover at the Venice Film Festival earlier this week.
It was Damon’s fault. And Brad Pitt’s.
As Damon tells it, Pitt was getting so fed up with Italian journos’ queries about when he was going to tie the knot with Angelina Jolie, he finally blurted out that he’d do the deed once “George Clooney marries his boyfriend.”
“So this Italian journalist comes in and goes, Matt, is it true what Brad say?” Damon, in his best Eye-talian accent, recounts to Letterman. “And I have no idea what he is talking about. But you know, I go, ‘Yeah, of course it’s true.’ And he says, ‘Do you mean George Clooney have a boyfriend?’ And now I’m trying to keep a straight face and I go, ‘Yeah, of course he’s got a boyfriend. And he wants to legally marry him. We’ve been on him about this for years…’ ”
Flash forward to Tuesday: Damon turns on CNN and “this guy stands up and says, ‘George!…I am a gay.’ And this guy starts peeling his clothes off and he says, ‘If you musta choose, choose me!’ ”
“I’m sure George is still laughing about that one,” says Letterman.
[From E! Online]
Damon is promoting his role on the upcoming Soderbergh comedy of errors, The Informant!, based on the true life ADM price fixing scandal. The film is out in the US next Friday, Septemner 38. The 38 year-old father of two also appears on the cover of this month’s Esquire Magazine. The journalist is said to have interviewed Damon while he worked for his charity, Water.org. At one point Damon sings a cute potty song with some kids in India. I get Water.org’s newsletter and yesterday they sent out a mailing about the importance of access to toilets, especially for young girls in India who often drop out of school at the embarrassment of having to share toilets. Some kids have to wait until dark until they can go #2 and that can make them very sick. World Toilet Day (seriously!) is November 19, 2009. You can help by retweeting stories from Water.org and by donating to the cause through their website.
Photo above credit: Water.org. Esquire cover from CoverAwards. Other photos taken outside The Late Show yesterday. Credit: WENN.com
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17 Responses to “Matt Damon explains how he started the rumor that George Clooney is gay”
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LOL - they’re such boys
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Oh, aren’t they just such a bunch of clever frat boys?!
Please, I wish people would stop covering up for Clooney.
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I love Matt Damon. I could sit and listen to him tell stories all day long!!
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Matt, You didn’t start the rumor that George Clooney is Gay. That rumor has been around for over twenty years, and was started by all the men he has had sex with.
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Now it’s clear where Gatsby Girl’s mean spirited perspective comes from. Yeah, it’s freaking hilarious to mock people from other cultures who are unfamiliar with a cultural literary reference. How brilliant and fun. Being from another country doesn’t mean you’re stupid. Hope when you go to Italy and they make an unfamiliar literary “joke” that you are ridiculed.
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Matt was adorable in the interview. I don’t usually watch Letterman, but stopped flipping channels to see what Matt was doing. It was quite the funny interview, and he does a great Matthew Mc. impression.
I agree with You must be kidding: it must be a different type of sense of humor to find it hilarious that someone doesn’t get a literary reference. To me, that’s like making fun of people who don’t get “inside jokes.”
And I’ll go one further to ask GatsbyGal if your social circle also finds it funny to ridicule people who are mentally challenged about a concept they can’t understand? Y’all must be riots.
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It’s hilarious how often Americans think they are clever and smart and how often they prove as tourists in Europe that they are not. Do you know how much Europeans laugh at stupid Americans who aren’t even able to represent their country in a decent way?
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yeah sure, only the gay rumors have been around since his “Fact of Life ” days, Nice try though.
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Oh - here we go - the old “ugly American” cliche, like we’ve got the monopoly on that. I lived in Europe for several years - and believe me, there are just as many or more assholes in Europe as there are in America.
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It’s hillarious to me how people from other countries sometimes have a hard time realizing when Americans are yanking their chains.
I realise that your cultural background is supported and reinforced by pretty much every media outing around you - even the internet has been infused with a lot of Americana.
But. Not everybody shares your cultural background. Other cultures have entirely different myths, jokes, stories, TV programs, shared background, common consciousness. It’s a shame that so many people just seem to see this as ‘Haha, people from other countries don’t know stuff’ and not as ‘they know different stuff’.So basically, your friend made a reference to something this man didn’t know about, but he continued to be polite and didn’t ask about it, probably because he felt you were making fun at him. Besides, he was on the job, so didn’t exactly have the option to be sceptical.
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hmph, old Matt is trying to do damage control huh??? well–its been long said, before Matt was even thought of..
is he swinging w/him?? is he afraid something will come out about them all messing around w/each other???
leave it alone-before folks start digging and prying..jsut leave it alone.
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Agree with
You Must Be Kidding
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The comment that said - “It’s hillarious to me how people from other countries sometimes have a hard time realizing when Americans are yanking their chains……”
————————————Adding to what “NONY” said, here’s a guy who was at his job, trying to be friendly and pleasant (to what sounds like a group of pasty idiots,) comes from another country, and frankly even many Americans wouldn’t get the Nottingham reference. Even if you get the reference, it isn’t clever. Maybe this chick’s dad will go to France and get mocked by a waiter about Proust or some such.
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at the italian venice film festival, the guy who took off his clothes at the rpess conference for George’s film wasn’t gay.
he was just a journalist who’s working for the satir TV show “Le iene”. They often go to press conference to meet A-listers and to snatch some strange photos or to put them in weird situation. some years ago a girl, who worked for this show, go to a press conference and asked him to marry her.
it was totally faked.
i konw cause i’m italian…
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Ya right. It’s all a big joke because it’s still politically correct in 2009 for straight men to make jokes about being gay. Grow up.
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It’s hillarious to me how people from other countries sometimes have a hard time realizing when Americans are yanking their chains.
My parents and a group of their friends were on a cruise a few years ago, and one night my dad’s friend wore a small metal star pin to dinner. It looked like a sheriff’s star I guess, because their waiter (who I think was actually Italian, come to think of it) asked him if he was a sheriff. My dad’s friend said, “Yes, I’m the sheriff of Nottingham.” And of course everyone at the table giggled and tried to keep a straight face, but this guy just didn’t get it, and proceeded to ask what he did in Nottingham, what it was like being the sheriff, etc. My dad’s friend was very gracious, though, and gave him a lot of nice, fake answers.
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