Overview

• Damon revealed himself after taunting Kimmel while dressed as Frankie Focus, the neon-green mascot tied to New York’s school cellphone ban campaign.
• Onstage barbs included calling Kimmel “dumb” and saying he looked like “they dragged Jimmy Fallon out of the Gowanus Canal.”
• Damon quipped that the president had canceled the show and quoted his “zero ratings and no talent” line, and Kimmel replied that the program continues with another episode on Monday.
• The cameo closed Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s Brooklyn residency at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House.
• The bit extended a running gag that dates to 2005 and arrived after ABC briefly preempted the show following an FCC warning, with affiliates later restoring carriage and ratings surging on its return.