Matt wasn't safe from George's fake letter prank, either. To get back at Amy Poehler and Tina Fey for their hilarious Gravity joke at the Golden Globe Awards ("Gravity is the story about how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die rather than spend one more minute with a woman his own age"), he sent them an upset letter "from Matt" (written on the Bourne Identity star's letterhead) complaining about all of their jokes.
"I sent her a letter saying, 'Dear Tina, listen, it’s from Matt,'" he explained at a SiriusXM Town Hall event later on. "It just said, 'Look, it sounds hypocritical because I laughed at the jokes about George and Leo, but you know, that’s sort of what people think about them. But when you called me a garbage man, it just seemed like low-hanging fruit; it just seemed like an easy joke. And you know, I don’t want an apology, I don’t want anything else, I just want you to know that my kid now calls me the garbage man.'"
Luckily the comedians saw through his shtick. They sent Matt two fruit baskets, each with their own note. While the first offered an apology for hurting his feelings, the second made it clear they weren't messing around: “If your note is part of some George Clooney prank, as I very strongly suspect it is, you A-list amateurs are going to have to step it the f*ck up. We are not some easily confused starlets here. We are grown-ass, professional comedians. Please accept this fruit as a token of our sincerity. Best wishes, Elizabeth Tina Fey, Amy 'Boston' Poehler."
