Just guys being dudes.
These days Jimmy Kimmel spends most of his time virtue signaling to his dwindling late night audience, but there was a time when his brand was all sexually-charged humor aimed at dudes who liked watching busty girls bounce on trampolines.
Despite being a woke scold these days, it seems that Kimmel hasn’t entirely lost that brand of humor, and it came out last night (after the obligatory trashing of President Donald Trump during his monologue) when he told a wild story about an encounter with Matthew McConaughey in the bathroom of the Emmy Awards last week.
During the “In Memoriam” segment of this year’s awards (which left out the legendary Chuck Norris), the Emmy Awards honored longtime Jimmy Kimmel Live! bandleader Cleto Escobedo III, who passed away on November 11, 2025 at the age of 59.
While talking with Woody Harrelson on last night’s show, Kimmel recalled the emotions of seeing his friend in the tribute video:
“I started getting choked up.”
Kimmel says that he went to the bathroom to compose himself and happened to run into McConaughey, who was at the urinal. And the actor noticed that Kimmel appeared to be upset – so he tried to comfort him:
“I go to the bathroom washing my hands and I notice next to me, I mean, right next to me is Matthew McConaughey. He’s at the urinal and I’m washing my hands and I say, ‘Hey.’ And he sees that I’m upset and he’s like, ‘Hey, you okay? And I told him what happened and he, again, is at the urinal and he turns to me and he gives me a very nice hug.”
It was at that point, though, that McConaughey hadn’t zipped his pants – and he was rubbing his junk all over him:
“He hugs me real, you know, 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.'”
To make things more awkward as McConaughey was rubbing his penis on Kimmel, Harrelson also happened to be in the stall and walked out to witness the whole thing:
“I never try to grade or to critique what other people are doing, and I figured you guys are – whatever your thing is. I didn’t want to be the guy to say, ‘Uh, no, not in the restroom at the end.'”
Ultimately though, Kimmel said that McConaughey’s antics did end up making him feel better:
“I will tell you that lightened the moment considerably. And Cleto would have loved that very much.”
I mean, to each their own. But it just goes to show you that dude humor doesn’t really change, no matter how woke you are.
