--- title: Morgan Freeman: Narrates Stranger's Life on Jimmy Kimmel description: From hum drum to March of the Penguins. canonical: https://time.com/4440736/watch-morgan-freeman-narrate-the-life-of-an-unsuspecting-pedestrian/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-05T15:40:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:10.018Z og:title: Morgan Freeman Narrates the Life of A Random Pedestrian og:description: Jimmy Kimmel and Freeman should team up more often og:url: https://time.com/4440736/watch-morgan-freeman-narrate-the-life-of-an-unsuspecting-pedestrian/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Morgan Freeman Narrates the Life of A Random Pedestrian twitter:description: Jimmy Kimmel and Freeman should team up more often twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Morgan Freeman Narrate the Life of an Unsuspecting Pedestrian by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 5, 2016 3:40 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 5, 2016 3:40 PM UTC When “the bald man with his shirt buttoned all the way up” took his first tentative steps down a California sidewalk, he undoubtedly had no idea that his life was about to change as his every move was being narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman. [Freeman](http://time.com/3340330/morgan-freeman-samuel-l-jackson-television-entertainment/?iid=sr-link3) has stopped by _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ to promote his new film _Ben Hur_ and [Kimmel](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/29/watch-president-obama-outshines-jimmy-kimmel-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner/?iid=sr-link2) asked him to repeat a stunt they had pulled back in March where Freeman used his [considerable vocal powers](http://time.com/4246188/morgan-freeman-jimmy-kimmel/?iid=sr-link1) for good and applied his trademark narration to the activities of some random person going through life. After being assured that he was not “being set up”, Freeman gamely narrated a few meaningful minutes of a stranger’s life, transforming them from hum drum to a riveting scene straight out of _March of the Penguins._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4440736/watch-morgan-freeman-narrate-the-life-of-an-unsuspecting-pedestrian/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4440736/watch-morgan-freeman-narrate-the-life-of-an-unsuspecting-pedestrian/"},"headline":"Watch Morgan Freeman Narrate the Life of an Unsuspecting Pedestrian","datePublished":"2016-08-05T15:40:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:10.018Z","description":"This man's life just became March of the Penguins","url":"https://time.com/4440736/watch-morgan-freeman-narrate-the-life-of-an-unsuspecting-pedestrian/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Jimmy Kimmel","jimmy kimmel live","documentaries","Morgan Freeman"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/4440736/watch-morgan-freeman-narrate-the-life-of-an-unsuspecting-pedestrian/","name":"Watch Morgan Freeman Narrate the Life of an Unsuspecting Pedestrian"}}]}] ```