--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Pranks People on the Street With Pretend Bug description: Jimmy Kimmel sent his team out to the street to film a segment in which they pranked people by telling them a bug had landed on them. canonical: https://time.com/5395293/jimmy-kimmel-bug-prank/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-13T16:38:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:50.480Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Pranking People With a Pretend Bug Is Gold og:description: People predictably freaked out og:url: https://time.com/5395293/jimmy-kimmel-bug-prank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebf0a2b057a5a473/69893a26096a9460db6a3701/screen-shot-2018-09-13-at-12-34-39-pm.png?branch=production&width=1158&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1158 og:image:height: 651 og:image:alt: Jimmy-Kimmel-Bug-Prank og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Pranking People With a Pretend Bug Is Gold twitter:description: People predictably freaked out twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebf0a2b057a5a473/69893a26096a9460db6a3701/screen-shot-2018-09-13-at-12-34-39-pm.png?branch=production&width=1158&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Pranking People on the Street With a Pretend Bug Is Comedy Gold > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 13, 2018 4:38 PM UTC  ABC/Jimmy Kimmel Live!  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 13, 2018 4:38 PM UTC Just one day after [sending his team out](http://time.com/5282168/jimmy-kimmel-man-on-the-street-books/) to prove that [people will do pretty much anything for a chance to be on TV](http://time.com/5393733/jimmy-kimmel-pedestrian-question-2018/), [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/5388504/new-york-times-op-ed-trump-jimmy-kimmel/) already had a new prank up his sleeve. During Wednesday’s episode of _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_, the host aired a segment in which random passerby on Hollywood Boulevard were told that there was a bug on them while being filmed for what they thought was an interview about bird scooters. “Here’s something that has nothing to do with anything,” Kimmel introduced the clip. “What do you do when someone tells you you have a bug on you? A lot of people flip out, right? Which is fun. And we love fun so we went out on the street this afternoon and we told people we were talking to under false pretenses, we just said, ‘You have a bug on you.’ And this is how that went.” Watch the video below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5395293/jimmy-kimmel-bug-prank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5395293/jimmy-kimmel-bug-prank/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Pranking People on the Street With a Pretend Bug Is Comedy Gold","datePublished":"2018-09-13T16:38:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:50.480Z","description":"People predictably freaked out","url":"https://time.com/5395293/jimmy-kimmel-bug-prank/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Jimmy Kimmel","TV","jimmy kimmel live","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebf0a2b057a5a473/69893a26096a9460db6a3701/screen-shot-2018-09-13-at-12-34-39-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebf0a2b057a5a473/69893a26096a9460db6a3701/screen-shot-2018-09-13-at-12-34-39-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jimmy-Kimmel-Bug-Prank","caption":"","creditText":"ABC/Jimmy Kimmel Live!","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5395293/jimmy-kimmel-bug-prank/","name":"Jimmy Kimmel Pranking People on the Street With a Pretend Bug Is Comedy Gold"}}]}] ```