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Jon Hamm says he’s “fine” despite a coming procedure to remove a polyp on his vocal cord. “It’s a simple injury,” said Hamm, who sounded raspy in an interview Thursday. “Something that develops on your vocal cord from overuse because I talk a lot. … Other than that, believe it or not, I’m healthy as a horse. Hoarse, get it?” he joked. Hamm’s publicist Erica Gray said he will undergo a routine outpatient procedure. The condition hasn’t slowed down the 42-year-old Mad Men star who was nominated for best actor at Sunday’s Emmy Awards. Hamm lost to Jeff Daniels of the HBO drama The Newsroom. “I’m OK with the results. I’m super happy that Jeff won. I think his work is phenomenal,” Hamm said. “I’m unabashed in my fandom for television, so I had a great Emmys. I like going there and seeing a bunch of people and seeing my friends, and it was fun. I got to present with Alec Baldwin. How fun is that?”

Jimmy Kimmel and Kanye West either are engaged in a bitter feud or a wild parody of one. A skit Tuesday that poked fun at West on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live provoked an irate call from the rapper about an hour and half before Thursday’s show, Kimmel said in his monologue. “He is very angry because of abit we aired this week,” Kimmel said, in which a child re-enacted an interview that West gave to Britain’s BBC. But West ordered him to make a public apology and said Kimmel’s life would be “much better” if he did so, Kimmel said, adding that West also called himself the most powerful voice in media. Then came more than a half-dozen tweets posted on West’s official Twitter site. One called Kimmel out of line for spoofing what West called “the first piece of honest media in years.” “Finally, I’m in a rap feud. I always wanted to be in a rap feud,” a smiling Kimmel said.