In case you thought Jimmy Kimmel’s ongoing “feud” with Matt Damon was only for laughs, his newest interview proves it might need gotten approach too actual.

Throughout a wild and unexpectedly candid interview, the late-night host revealed that Damon as soon as had a terrifying choking scare inside his home that almost became a catastrophe.

Nevertheless, that wasn’t the one factor Kimmel needed to get off his chest as he additionally shut down rumors about Stephen Colbert’s funds and preached the survival of late-night TV.

Throughout an interview with Selection, Jimmy Kimmel did not waste any time diving into the now-infamous pork rib incident.

In line with the famed host, Damon confirmed up late to an informal dinner at Kimmel’s house feeling famished, and instantly began shoveling meals down. Inside minutes, issues took a pointy flip.

Damon started choking on a bit of rib that was lodged deep in his throat, and to Kimmel’s horror, it would not budge.

“It was caught in his throat for about an hour and a half,” he admitted.

The comic rapidly panicked and began excited about the headlines and jail time that might comply with.

“If he dies in my home, I will jail for the remainder of my life. I’ll by no means have the ability to clarify this as something apart from a homicide,” Kimmel thought to himself, satisfied nobody would imagine it was simply an accident.

The state of affairs bought so tense that Kimmel thought of dashing Damon to the hospital.

A number of Heimlich makes an attempt failed, and desperation kicked in.

Kimmel, Damon, and his brother even resorted to frantically looking out YouTube for options. After making an attempt nearly every little thing, they lastly settled on an unlikely remedy: bread.

They slowly fed Damon small bites of bread within the hope that it might pressure the rib down, and unbelievably, it labored.

“Bread saved him,” the comic shared.

Moreover the Matt Damon story, Kimmel additionally reacted to reviews that “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” has been dropping $40 million a yr.

The host mentioned he is uninterested in individuals spreading misinformation about late-night reveals with out bothering to know how the business truly makes cash.

He slammed the rumors as “past nonsensical” and mentioned the individuals pushing these numbers clearly do not perceive affiliate charges, which he claims herald “a whole lot of hundreds of thousands” which are tied on to late-night programming.

“There’s simply not a snowball’s likelihood in hell that that is wherever close to correct,” Kimmel argued, insisting that tales like this are nice clickbait however indifferent from actuality.

Kimmel additionally addressed the broader narrative that late-night TV is on its final legs.

Whereas he admitted that community tv is declining, he pushed again laborious on the concept viewers aren’t watching reveals like his anymore.

These days could be gone the place everybody tuned in reside, however the demand hasn’t disappeared, however solely simply shifted to digital platforms. To again up his level, Kimmel rattled off the sorts of numbers individuals do not usually see.

For instance, his personal monologues routinely pull in between two and 5 million views on-line, Seth Meyers sees related numbers on YouTube alone, and Jon Stewart sometimes crosses 5 million.

Placing all of that collectively, Kimmel mentioned, “I believe should you actually take a look at how individuals are watching these reveals, and the numbers, it is proper up there with the highest reveals on Netflix and Hulu. But within the media, you’d suppose it is a rotting corpse, which it most actually just isn’t.”