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Jimmy Kimmel pranks his cousin Micki at the ABC offices for his show. Keep watching to the end.

September 24, 2021

These two pranks Jimmy Kimmel pulled on his cousin Micki at the ABC offices for his show are hilarious. The first was on her birthday, the second involved Billy Crystal on April Fools Day.

This has got to be one of the funniest pranks ever pulled on anyone! We are privy to the behind-the-scenes preparations as many of Jimmy’s staff are surprised in various locations throughout the ABC offices of Jimmy Kimmel Live. But Cousin Micki is the main target. It’s her 50th birthday. They obviously went to great lengths to produce this hilarious scenario. A video of it is posted on Jimmy Kimmel’s Instagram account. It is absolutely brilliant! I still laugh out loud every time. They later put it on YouTube, so I was finally able to update this post and embed it here.

December 10, 2019: Jimmy Kimmel Pranks Staff with His Wax Figure

Jimmy Kimmel Live posted the video on their YouTube channel with this description: Starting tomorrow a wax figure of Jimmy will be on display at Madame Tussauds Hollywood. At the museum, they have what they call the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live Experience,’ so we decided to have that here too. We brought ‘Wax Jimmy’ into our office and put it in strange places to surprise staffers with special emphasis on Jimmy’s cousin Micki.

How many times did you hear, “Oh, My God!”? I counted around 18, with Micki yelling out 15 of them. A few people reacted with more profane expressions—understandably so—and they were bleeped out.

Jimmy invited his baby cousin Micki on the show to receive a loving tribute on her 50th birthday. She’s all dressed up and holding 22 balloons. To honor the occasion Jimmy played a funny video of clips from family members, friends and co-workers quoting her saying the silliest things. It’s posted on the Jimmy Kimmel Live Instagram account.

April 1, 2024: Billy Crystal Pranks Cousin Micki for April Fools’ Day.

Jimmy Kimmel posted another funny video on his Instagram with this description: Cousin Micki works in the talent department here at the show and takes care of the guests when they arrive. So we came up with a little ruse and told her that Billy Crystal had to come in early to shoot a comedy bit before the show. That was actually true, but what she didn’t know is that she was in the bit too. Billy told her he got a shot at the doctor that caused him to randomly fall asleep and he needed Micki, who might be the nicest person in the world, to help keep him conscious. Jimmy also posted it on the Jimmy Kimmel Live YouTube Channel.

Five years later, Sept. 14, 2025: Jimmy posted it again on his Instagram: jimmykimmellive 5h Happy Birthday Cousin Micki! We love you! 🎉🧁🎈

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Good cartoons teach us a lot if we’re willing to learn and laugh at our little foibles and neuroses

December 15, 2020

Cartoons that make us laugh at ourselves are the funniest and wisest. Here’s one I found that caught me by surprise. As soon as I read the second line of the quote below the image I could not stop laughing. Even now, when I think of it, I chuckle to myself. It says a lot!

It was posted on Narrative Magazine‘s Instagram page. The signature at the bottom suggested Sipress. I searched on Instagram and found David Sipress. He’s another cartoonist published in The New Yorker cartoons. I’d seen his work before and think he is a brilliant commentator on life, pointing out the crazy humor in current affairs.

A Case For Pencils interviewed him about his work. They include a link to an audio of him talking about cartoons while taking a yoga class. They also embed a video of a lecture he gave at Williams College Alumni Reunion 2008: Illustrator and cartoonist David Sipress, Class of 1968, discusses the art of cartooning and The New Yorker.

The Cartoon Bank Blog interviewed him in Meet the Artist: David Sipress, October 15, 2009.

Update: On March 7, 2022, NPR’s Terry Gross interviewed New Yorker cartoonist David Sipress on Fresh Air about his new book, What’s So Funny? A Cartoonist’s Memoir, (March 8, 2022). This show is posted in the Author Interviews Fresh Air March 2022 archive, available as: It took this ‘New Yorker’ cartoonist 25 years to achieve his childhood dream.

I’ve posted other cartoons, light and dark, that tickled my funny bone. This one by Gahan Wilson is another unexpectedly funny New Yorker cartoon—what this fortuneteller tells her client. And this other funny one tellingly depicts our obsession with the past and future, ignoring how to be in the present moment!

The cartoon at the top of this post on my favorite romantic movies is where we go to keep learning our life’s lessons. Towards the bottom of that same post I inserted a related New Yorker cartoon by Roz Chast that perfectly reminds me of Bill Murray waking up each morning in the brilliant little film, Ground Hog Day, but with a twist!

An astute and funny one by Alex Gregory shows us what social media can do to us. And the brilliant cartoons and videos in this post deal with cellphone addiction and love in the digital age.

Rick Hotton, creator of the award-winning cartoon Holy Molé, opens our hearts and minds with insightful humor. Speaking of interfacing with reality through computers instead of our own eyes, this cartoon make us laugh realizing there’s more to life when we’re truly present.

If you’re up for non-stop laughter, check out Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons of 2020. It’s in The New Yorker’s 2020 in Review culture section of their December 14 issue. They’re very funny and relatable!!!

This one-minute video from CBC Comedy’s 22 Minutes on how to deal with dietary restrictions at Christmas dinner is hilarious because it’s true!

Cartoon wisdom from Karl Stevens appears in this week’s print edition of The New Yorker. It’s all about learning to live in the moment. Turns out Karl has been doing TM for 7 years. Says it’s completely changed his life for the better, helping him focus on living a cleaner life.

Updated July 13, 2022: David Sipress posted another hilarious cartoon on Instagram about the frustration of trying to express one’s creativity.

August 2, 2022: David Sipress posted today’s very funny newyorker.com Daily Cartoon—what most Americans can’t seem to do when on vacation.

December 31, 2022: This funny and wise cartoon from David Sipress reminds us that things are not as bad as we think.

February 3, 2023: Gary Larson’s cartoons are funny because they make us see the unexpected humor in things.

February 9, 2023: See other humorous and sometimes instructive cartoonists’ work in Funny cartoons make us laugh ‘cuz they’re true, especially the first one by Bob Mankoff.

March 26, 2023: Cartoonists show us the pressure some people put on their pets and how they try to deal with it.

July 13, 2023: More brilliant cartoons from Dave Coverly as he anthropomorphizes a dog and a crash test dummy.

Click the humor category for more funny cartoons on The Uncarved Blog.

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