--- title: Kimmel Wished His Enemy Matt Damon a Happy 60th Birthday description: Matt Damon looks pretty good for 60! canonical: https://time.com/5419371/jimmy-kimmel-on-matt-damon-birthday/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-09T14:40:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:21.014Z og:title: Kimmel Wished His Enemy Matt Damon a Happy 60th Birthday og:description: It's the latest volley in their ongoing feud og:url: https://time.com/5419371/jimmy-kimmel-on-matt-damon-birthday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b65a45943752b1f/6988bbfc196cf46f1103f04f/kimmel-damon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3226 og:image:height: 1815 og:image:alt: 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kimmel Wished His Enemy Matt Damon a Happy 60th Birthday twitter:description: It's the latest volley in their ongoing feud twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b65a45943752b1f/6988bbfc196cf46f1103f04f/kimmel-damon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Celebrates Faux Mortal Enemy Matt Damon's Birthday By Throwing More Epic Shade > Sponsored content. 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Actor Matt Damon (L) and host Jimmy Kimmel speak onstage during the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Jeff Kravitz—FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 9, 2018 2:40 PM UTC Jimmy Kimmel may be [Matt Damon](http://time.com/4357029/matt-damon-mit-commencement/)’s faux-mortal enemy, but that didn’t stop him from bidding him happy birthday. Of course, [Kimmel](http://time.com/4492939/kids-explain-where-babies-come-from-jimmy-kimmel/) wished Damon a happy 60th birthday when the actor is only 48. “The big 6-0\. I have to admit he looks pretty good for 60,” Kimmel said. “This year for his birthday, Matt wished for the same thing he wishes for every year – talent.” It continued from there with another closing sick burn. It’s the latest installment in the infamous 12-year feud between the A-list actor and the late night talk show host that [dates back to the third season](http://time.com/4473441/jimmy-kimmel-matt-damon-feud-history-timeline/) of _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ when the host apologized to Damon for bumping him from the show—even though he had never been booked in the first place. From there it has blossomed and their very public spat has played out on _The Tonight Show_, the Emmy Awards, and even the Oscars. Back in 2016, they even tried to go to [couples’ therapy](http://time.com/4423798/matt-damon-and-jimmy-kimmel-make-some-real-progress-in-couples-therapy-again/) to work on their relationship, but it appears it was too late for the rivals to patch things up. While Kimmel’s double-edged birthday wish was the latest volley in their ongoing feud, it was nothing compared to what happened on Kimmel’s birthday. Not only did everyone from Jennifer Lawrence to Kim Kardashian and Stephen Colbert [read mean tweets](http://time.com/5023162/jimmy-kimmel-mean-tweets-jennifer-lawrence-jon-stewart-kim-kardashian/) about him, but Matt Damon, J.J. Abrams, and Jennifer Aniston turned the super hero comic book Kimmel wrote when he was a 10-year old kid into [a movie trailer](https://youtu.be/t8Jq6NqCQ1o) with Damon noting that the characters “were created by a weird, sad kid who grew to later become a weird, fat man.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5419371/jimmy-kimmel-on-matt-damon-birthday/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5419371/jimmy-kimmel-on-matt-damon-birthday/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Celebrates Faux Mortal Enemy Matt Damon's Birthday By Throwing More Epic Shade","datePublished":"2018-10-09T14:40:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:21.014Z","description":"It’s the latest volley in their ongoing feud","url":"https://time.com/5419371/jimmy-kimmel-on-matt-damon-birthday/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Matt Damon","Jimmy Kimmel","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b65a45943752b1f/6988bbfc196cf46f1103f04f/kimmel-damon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b65a45943752b1f/6988bbfc196cf46f1103f04f/kimmel-damon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Show","caption":"68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Show","creditText":"Jeff Kravitz—FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5419371/jimmy-kimmel-on-matt-damon-birthday/","name":"Jimmy Kimmel Celebrates Faux Mortal Enemy Matt Damon's Birthday By Throwing More Epic Shade"}}]}] ```