Everyone who put the time into watching “Jimmy Kimmel’s Handsome Men’s Club” seemed to really enjoy it, so here’s a clip from Kimmel that reveals some of the outtakes during filming (see video below). It’s not nearly as long as the original sketch — that would be impossible — but it still has a few chuckles without resorting to the par-for-the-course “Oh no! I forgot my line!” crap that never makes me laugh.

This got me thinking: I’d kind of like to see the gender reverse of this. I mean, sure, the “Beautiful Women’s Club” probably wouldn’t be as funny, but it’d be really great to look at. I’m now taking votes for who could play the funnywoman host trying to pass herself off as beautiful. Tina Fey? Sarah Silverman? Oh yeah, Silverman. I never realized how perfect she and Kimmel were for each before now.

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Not pictured: Mark Wahlberg speaking to the donkey

Matt Damon was on the season finale of “Entourage” on Sunday night, and you know what that means: YAY, no more “Entourage” for a while! Oh, and also the video clip below, which is awesome for a minute while Damon trashes Vincent Chase over the phone for being retarded and terrible at life and a lousy actor. Unfortunately, the last 30 seconds or so are of Damon backing off and apologizing, which ruins the whole thing. Don’t stop, Damon! Keep going! Tell him that his head is gigantic and his hair is a stupid-looking ‘fro and he has puny girly arms and seriously, a grown man shouldn’t have friends named “Turtle.”

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“Here are some apples for you to enjoy.”

Variety has an article about the History Channel’s upcoming docu-drama “WWII in HD” — Gary Sinise will narrate, and a solid cast of actors (including Steve Zahn, Amy Smart, Ron Livingston, and LL Cool J) will provide additional voice work.  But what I found most interesting was a tidbit about a History project farther down the pipeline:

History will also unveil “The People Speak,” a Matt Damon-spearheaded adaptation of the Howard Zinn book “A People’s History of the United States,” in the fourth quarter of this year.

Rewind to 12 years ago.  Damon’s titular character in Good Will Hunting tells Sean (Robin Williams) that A People’s History (first published in 1980) is a book that “will knock you on your ass.”  Damon, of course, wrote that script with Ben Affleck, and their Zinn-fatuation goes back to childhood.  From IMDb:

As a boy, Matt Damon was Zinn’s neighbor and provided the voice for the CD recording of that book.

I’ll save you several hundred pages of wasted hours and sum up A People’s History for you: white men are dicks.  Man, I’m tired of that book getting lauded by faux intellectuals with liberal white guilt.  Zinn’s book is a leftist, reactionary piece of garbage.  Granted, popular American history texts glossed over our darker moments of racism and injustice for too long, but a one-sided history from the other side is still one-sided.  It’s just as incomplete and inaccurate as the works Zinn was fighting against when he wrote it.

And now, because Matt Damon was his neighbor growing up, we get a televised version of it.  Blech.  Get bent, Damon.