Comedy? No, 'The Martian' is a musical, Matt Damon says

Watching a man struggle for survival in a barren Martian wasteland sounds pretty grim, but according to the Golden Globes, The Martian is not a drama (and we can kinda agree with them). But according to Matt Damon, it's not even a comedy. It's a musical.

The infinitely youthful actor just won the Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy or musical for The Martian, and he was feeling some of Mark Watney's trademark humor as he traded barbs with reporters backstage.

It had been 18 years since Damon had last been in the Globes' winner circle — which he won best screenplay for Good Will Hunting — so he had probably been building up these jokes for a while now.

“No, it’s a musical," Damon joked about 'The Martian.'  “And that’s what the 18-year gap was, me working on my singing."

Um, a musical starring Matt Damon sounds amazing. Too bad he's busy shooting the next Jason Bourne film to actually realize his potential as the next Broadway star. Damon said he would have to hand off the Globe statuette to his wife Sunday, as he's “flying out to Las Vegas, because we’re shooting tomorrow morning for the new Jason Bourne movie.”

He may be off to do another crowd-pleasing action movie soon, but Damon said he still appreciated the prestige that goes with winning an award for a role like Mark Watney in The Martian.

“When people really respond and the critics really respond and there’s a perfect-storm reaction, that’s great. But it doesn’t make me feel any different about (any other) movie” that he’s made, Damon said. However, “I do know (winning) is rarefied air and not a normal thing. Eighteen years later … puts it in context.”