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Thinking this is the beginning of a great prank war between these 3. I can only imagine what Clooney comes back with.. These guys could do their own mini-series on Punk’d! That would be awesome, I’d need to set my tivo for that, wouldn’t want to miss it! -Greg

With friends like these…

The very-much-alive Matt Damon turned up on the Late Show With David Letterman last night and, aside from breathing, made some news by offering a possible explanation for buddy George Clooney being ambushed by a clothes-eschewing would-be gay lover at the Venice Film Festival earlier this week.

It was Damon’s fault. And Brad Pitt‘s.

As Damon tells it, Pitt was getting so fed up with Italian journos’ queries about when he was going to tie the knot with Angelina Jolie, he finally blurted out that he’d do the deed once “George Clooney marries his boyfriend.”

“So this Italian journalist comes in and goes, Matt, is it true what Brad say?” Damon, in his best Eye-talian accent, recounts to Letterman. “And I have no idea what he is talking about. But you know, I go, ‘Yeah, of course it’s true.’ And he says, ‘Do you mean George Clooney have a boyfriend?’ And now I’m trying to keep a straight face and I go, ‘Yeah, of course he’s got a boyfriend. And he wants to legally marry him. We’ve been on him about this for years…’ ”

Flash forward to Tuesday: Damon turns on CNN and “this guy stands up and says, ‘George!…I am a gay.’ And this guy starts peeling his clothes off and he says, ‘If you musta choose, choose me!’ ”

“I’m sure George is still laughing about that one,” says Letterman.

Right. All we can say is watch out, Damon. Payback’s a bitch.

Haha, how hilarious is this, poor George getting sexually harassed while at a press conference. He does a great job of dealing with the guy I have to admit. I’m not sure I could hold my composure as well. I wonder if this guy thought he had a genuine chance or if he just figured he would get on the news. Since he is a fan, George should at least thrown a couple dollars at him, haha… -Greg

Tue., Sep. 8, 2009 3:32 PM PDT by Marcus Errico

George Clooney came prepared to the Venice Film Festival.

Buzzworthy new flick. Check. Hot Italian girlfriend. Check. Crazy gay fanatic. Check and double check.

Clooney was fielding queries during a televised press conference for his new movie, The Men Who Stare at Goats, when he got an eyeful from a male questioner.

“I am gay, George, and I think I am in love with you…Please take me,” the dude said, stripping down to his underwear. “May I kiss you, please. Just one kiss?”

The ever chill Clooney didn’t miss a beat. ”It’s hard when you take a big chance and it doesn’t really work,” he chuckled.

“It’s always embarrassing when you take one real big swing for the fences and it just falls flat,” said Clooney, who was decidedly not persuaded to do some switch-hitting. “It was a good try, though.”