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Jimmy Kimmelsnuck in a last-minute dig atMatt Damonduring the2024 Oscars.
As the 96th Academy Awards broadcast wrapped on ABC Sunday night, cameras cut toMessi, the dog actor fromAnatomy of a Fall, as he appeared to urinate on 53-year-old Damon’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
In the silly moment, the dog lifts his leg over the star before walking away, suggesting Oscars host Kimmel, 56, put the canine up to the task.
In arecent CNN interviewprior to the Oscars, Kimmel poked fun at Damon again, this time for not coming to this year’s award show despite being in the most-nominated movie of the year, Oppenheimer.
“He is not nominated for an Oscar. He was in Oppenheimer. Everyone else was nominated except for him,” Kimmel told the outlet. (Costars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. won awards Sunday, and Emily Blunt was also nominated from the cast.)
About Damon not attending, Kimmel joked to CNN, “What really happened? He couldn’t get a ticket. It’s one of the saddest things I’ve ever heard. He asked if he could come and they told him, ‘Sorry, nominees only.’ "
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Damon and Kimmel have repeatedly traded barbs back and forth in the nearly two decades since that original joke. In 2008, Damon notablyenlistedKimmel’s then-girlfriendSarah Silvermanto make amusic video jokingly suggesting the two had an affair; Damon has also snuck his way on toJimmy Kimmel Live!over the years and last year hadBen Affleckattempt to play peacemakerbetween the “feuding” duo.
Jimmy Kimmel hosting the 2024 Oscars.Rich Polk/Variety via Getty
Rich Polk/Variety via Getty
Kimmel paid a loving tribute to Messi, who played the dog Snoop in this year’s Best Original Screenplay winnerAnatomy of a Fall, during his opening monologue on Sunday.
“Messi, who, even though he’s a dog, may have given the performance of the year inAnatomy of a Fall,” Kimmel praised, after jokingly suggesting he would cast Messi to play the lead part ifThe Shaggy Dogever receives a reboot.
Messi on March 10, 2024.Kevin Winter/Getty Images
“Messi has an overdose scene, if you’ve seen it you’ve known it. It’s incredible,” Kimmel added, noting one of the dog’s standout moments inAnatomy of a Fall. “Honestly I haven’t seen a French actor eat his own vomit like that sinceGérard Depardieu.”
Messi has been one of the stars of awards season after heattended February’s Oscars luncheonand met celebs and Oscar nominees includingRyan GoslingandBradley Cooper.
Kimmel also tried out some of his monologue jokes on Messi prior to Sunday’s broadcast in a video shared onInstagram.
source: people.com
