By Tara John
Jimmy Kimmel mistakenly hired Benedict Cumberbatch‘s Dr. Strange to perform at a children’s birthday party during a skit on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Cumberbatch, who acts as the titular character in the upcoming movie Doctor Strange, looked confused by the melee of screaming children, telling Kimmel: “I don’t understand — are they possessed?” He then offers to vanquish all of them.
“No, no, no vanquishing,” Kimmel says. “Just pull a rabbit out of somewhere, do tricks.”
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