Entourage – Matt Damon sucker punches Vince with a Bono conference call

What did people have against Matt Damon’s appearance after the end of last week’s episode of Entourage? Well, not him so much as Vince’s stumbling through a spot for the Damon supported charity onexone. People said things like, “Clearly it was scripted, but it’s no fake Vince/Adrian Grenier,” or “Damon really was frustrated with how crappy an actor Vince/Grenier is.” It was a parody, folks, and it was hilarious! And the joke was on Damon.

That was Damon playing his lighter side, same as this week. Yes he believes in the cause, and yeah, I’m betting part of his deal was exposure for the charity, but he was being Matt Damon, star of The Informant!, or his Sarah Silverman video … people need to quit being so negative about Vince, and start appreciating the great character that Grenier has carved out of stone. He’s the typical Hollywood lay-about, springing to attention only when a Matt Damon, when a Bono, when a star bigger than him makes him feel just this big. In less than five minutes, Matt Damon made my night (admittedly, I’m already a huge fan … but, still; that includes Seinfeld on Curb).

Stalking Vince at the airport with Lebron James? Research in hand on Vince’s payday for the year, and shaking him down for $150 thousand? Calling from Haiti and cursing him out for being slow to send his check (nice donkey in the background, by the way)? People don’t think this was a joke? Matt Damon is hilarious, and this is one of the greatest guest spots in Entourage history.

Where else are we as the hiatus begins? Eric and Sloan are engaged (kill me), Jamie-Lynn officially dropped Turtle as he sat on an airplane waiting to take off for New Zealand to see her, and Vince and Drama are on their way to Italy to shoot Vince’s Frank Darabont movie.

Interesting career developments, as well. Drama failed to land the Melrose role, but he now has a holding deal for a project that the studio is developing for him … what? They’re developing a project for the former Tarvold? Meanwhile, Ari came to terms with Terence (with a little help from Mrs. Ari on the financing side) and will merge the two agencies … if this is somehow supposed to send Ari off the show prior to season seven, I don’t see it.

And if his new employees weren’t familiar with him already, I’d say Ari made a bit of a bad first impression storming into TMA firing a paintball gun — but they do know him, and he was right on in shooting Jon & Kate’s representation. Also, Lloyd may now be an agent, but he will pay for his betrayal … it may not be worth it in the end.

By the way, I hope you all did stick around past the credits for the Matt Damon diatribe from Haiti. Yet as good as it was, Damon’s best line, within the framework of the show, came much earlier:

“I’m out of the business.” – Drama
“Were you in the business?” – Matt Damon

Zing! Can you say Emmy? Could be….

Have a good vacay, boys. Come back soon!

Clacked by Aryeh S.
on Oct 05, 2009 @ 09:00 EST5EDT