How you like them apples? Jimmy Kimmel says his pals Ben Affleck and Matt Damon offered to pay his 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' staff amid the writers' strike.
"Ben Affleck and the despicable Matt Damon contacted me and offered to pay our staff for two weeks," Kimmel said on Wednesday's episode, alluding to his long-standing fake feud with Damon. "A week each, they wanted to pay out of their own pockets our staff."
"Our staff or your staff?" Colbert asked, prompting Kimmel to chuckle and clarify that the offer only pertained to his staff.Jimmy Kimmel; Matt Damon and Ben AfflekKimmel said he declined the offer because he "felt that that was not their responsibility." To which Meyers quipped, "Could it be transferable?"A representative for Affleck and Damon did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.
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