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On Monday night’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” the late-night host kicked things off by throwing jabs at his favorite punching bag, President Trump, over his recent visit with Zohran Mamdani (and how smitten the president appears
to be with the mayor), as well as his authoritarian decision to ban CNN, MS Now and Politico from White House access.
But the real eye-opener came during his interview with Woody Harrelson.
After Harrelson, who is promoting his Apple TV series “Brothers” with good pal (and possible half-brother?) Matthew McConaughey, gifted Kimmel a gigantic joint from his West Hollywood “cannabis lounge and dispensary” The Woods, the comedian proceeded to share an outrageous story involving McConaughey, Harrelson and himself that went down at the recent Emmys.
So, Kimmel got choked up during the In Memoriam montage after it paid tribute to Cleto Escobedo III, his childhood best friend and long-time bandleader for “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” He went to the bathroom to collect himself and, well, I’ll let Kimmel tell the rest.
“My friend Cleto passed away and it was in the montage, and I started getting choked up and I went to the bathroom,” Kimmel recalled. “I’m washing my hands and I notice next to me — I mean, right next to me — Matthew McConaughey is at the urinal.”
But wait, there’s more: “He sees that I’m upset and he’s like, ‘Hey, you OK?’ And I told him what happened and he is again at the urinal, and he turns to me and he gives me a very nice hug — he hugs me very warmly — and I am hugging him for a little while, and I said, ‘Is your penis out?’ And he said, ‘Yes it is. Yes it is.’ And he says, ‘In fact, I’m going to rub it up against you a little bit.’”
At that very moment, Harrelson emerged from one of the bathroom stalls to witness the… intimate moment.
“I never try to grade or critique what other people are doing, and I figured you guys, whatever your thing is, I didn’t want to be the guy to say, ‘No, not in the restroom at the Emmys!’” Harrelson jokingly recalled, adding, “But I did hear you say that [you were upset] and that’s why afterwards we were all out in the hall and had a group hug. I’m sorry to hear about that.”
Kimmel said he was ultimately grateful for the McConaughey penis-out hug because it made him feel a lot better.
“That did lighten the moment considerably and Cleto would have loved that very much,” he shared.
