International Law

Over the past few weeks I've blogged about the hysterically funny hit viral video where Sarah Silverman confesses to her boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel that she is fucking Matt Damon (see here) and Jimmy Kimmel's equally funny response (see here), and now Jimmy Kimmel talks about both videos for Newsweek:

NEWSWEEK: Could you tell me how this whole thing got started? Did Sarah go behind your back and record the video with Matt Damon?             

Jimmy Kimmel: That was a genuine surprise. She brought it on the show and showed it. It was supposed to be for my 40th-birthday show. But instead, since we were on strike, we aired it during my fifth-anniversary show.

You saw it live for the first time with everyone else?             

Yeah. I didn't even know what was on the tape. It may be the first time I've been actually surprised on the show.

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Then you decided to make a video with Ben Affleck?

To be honest, I didn't think, "What am I going to do to retaliate?" because it seemed pretty invulnerable. Somebody here had the idea of Ben Affleck, and [Affleck] said, "I was thinking the same thing," and it all came together very quickly. We only shot one day, Ben and I. The next day we did studio shots. We did it on a Wednesday. We started in the morning and finished at 7 o'clock.

Did you tell Sarah?             

I tried to keep it a secret, but it became too difficult. Then I realized there's no point to keeping it a secret.

Which one's better?             

They're both good. But I think you have to give the edge to hers, because it's the original.

But you get points, I think, because you had more stars in yours than there were at the Oscars.             
Maybe so. It really was amazing. Once Harrison Ford came onboard, it convinced a lot of people to do it.

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