The “feud” between Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel is likely one of the longest working jokes in Hollywood — who would have thought its beginnings had been so random? And had mainly NOTHING to do with one of many folks concerned??

Talking on Sirius XM‘s The Jess Cagle Present on Wednesday, Matt lastly opened up about his aspect of the entire thing.

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It began with the Saving Personal Ryan star being simply as clueless as anybody else! He defined:

“Folks began to name me and ask like, ‘Hey, what’s your connection to this man?’ … I’d by no means met Jimmy. And he actually pulled my title out of skinny air one night time.”

He didn’t even watch the present, joking that “nobody did” at the moment! LOLz! He actually can’t flip it off!

The now 50-year-old says the late night time host informed him one night time when the lineup on his fledgling present was notably dire — a ventriloquist and a man in a gorilla go well with — he thought it will be humorous to joke that he had bumped an enormous star as a “throwaway” line, the now-infamous:

“My apologies to Matt Damon, we ran out of time.”

Because the star of the upcoming Stillwater factors out, it was utterly arbitrary:

“He may have stated Brad Pitt. He may’ve stated, you understand, George [Clooney], he may have stated any individual else. However he simply, for some purpose — perhaps I had a film out that week or one thing — however he simply stated my title… It modified the course of each of our lives. We’ve saved this feud going for, you understand, it’s gotta be 15 years now.”

The Oscar winner says he’s “had a whole lot of enjoyable doing it” — and so has the viewers. It’s led to such viral moments as Kimmel’s ex Sarah Silverman singing about F**king Matt Damon…

And to the star truly coming onstage on the Emmys whereas Kimmel was internet hosting to twist the knife about dropping the award to John Oliver…

Damon stated he’s spoken to Kimmel, with whom he’s develop into good pals, about preserving the bit going so lengthy. He says the JKL host informed him it simply “doesn’t behave like several joke ever”:

“He goes, ‘I say the identical joke each night time… and it will get amusing each night time.’”

See Matt laughing off the feud speak (under)!

[Image via Jimmy Kimmel Live/YouTube.]