Comedy 365

Most of our discerning American subscribers have probably seen one or both of these already, but I felt that I should make these clips our picks of the week for no other reason than to convince the British public just how poor our chat shows are by comparison.

British TV chat shows rarely give viewers enough reason to stay tuned throughout a single edition, let alone a series, but ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel is an old hand at what we media professionals call “the long tail”.

For some time, there’s been a running gag in Kimmel’s show about the actor Matt Damon being bumped from the show due to the overrunning of previous items.  When Damon finally did appear on the show, the two of them ended up having a fight.

Cue Kimmel’s girlfriend, Sarah Silverman, appearing on his fifth anniversary show with some important news.

[Sorry about the interference - this is the best quality copy I've found that can be embedded for viewing worldwide.]

Smarting from this, and not one to be outdone, the spurned Kimmel decided to get his own back.  See how many famous faces you can spot.

Beat that, Jonathan Ross.

[Kudos to Kulvinder Gill for these.]