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Jimmy Kimmel Pranks Staff with His Wax Figure

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Jimmy Kimmel turned his own wax figure into the office’s worst nightmare.

Madame Tussauds Hollywood was set to unveil a new “Jimmy Kimmel Live Experience” exhibit, complete with a statue built to stand permanently among the museum’s other likenesses. Before shipping it off, Kimmel had a different idea: haul the wax version of himself into the show’s production offices and turn it loose on the staff. The segment, which aired December 9, 2019, became a slow-burn ambush aimed squarely at one target — his cousin, Micki Marseglia.

• Kimmel’s production team stationed “Wax Jimmy” around the office, starting right outside the elevators, to catch staffers off guard.
• Micki Marseglia was hit hardest, finding the statue in the reception area, the kitchen, and her own workspace — at one point throwing her phone and yelling, “Oh, my god, he keeps haunting us!”
• Kimmel closed the bit by swapping himself for the statue in the guest dressing room, holding the pose until Micki walked in, then breaking character to scare her for real.

The Setup at Madame Tussauds

Wax figures of celebrities usually go straight from the sculptor’s studio to the display floor. Kimmel’s detour through his own office turned a standard museum unveiling into a multi-part prank reel. The statue’s realism was the whole engine of the bit — close enough to the real Jimmy that staffers walking past it in a hallway had no reason to look twice, at least not until it didn’t move when they expected it to.

The first ambush happened near the elevator bank, a high-traffic chokepoint where employees had nowhere to look but straight ahead. That single placement was enough to generate the screams, double-takes, and muttered expletives that carried through the rest of the segment, setting the tone before the crew moved the figure deeper into the building.

Micki Marseglia Becomes the Main Target

Once the opening scares landed, the prank narrowed in on one person. Micki was tracked from the reception desk to the office kitchen to her own desk, with the wax figure relocated each time she left a room. The repetition was the joke — just when she’d recover from one jump scare, the statue turned up somewhere new.

Her office desk produced the segment’s most chaotic reaction. Discovering the figure sitting in her workspace, she threw her phone and cried out, “Oh, my god, he keeps haunting us!” before joking that Kimmel’s double was going to give her a heart attack. It’s the kind of unscripted, physical reaction that no amount of staged comedy can fake, and it’s why the bit worked as well as any of the network’s classic hidden-camera stunts.

“Oh, my god, he keeps haunting us!”

The Dressing Room Swap

For the finale, Kimmel raised the stakes by becoming the prop himself. He took up the wax figure’s exact stiff pose inside the studio’s guest dressing room and waited for Micki to walk in, banking on the fact that she’d expect nothing more than another motionless statue after a day of chasing the real thing around the building.

When Micki approached, Kimmel broke pose and moved, setting off another full-blown scream — this time directed at the actual host rather than his wax stand-in. He finished the bit by gaslighting her on the spot, asking, “Did you know it was me every time? We don’t even have a wax figure,” a punchline that retroactively messed with everything she’d just lived through that day.

It’s the same hidden-camera instinct that’s powered plenty of viral office pranks over the years — the kind of setup fans of a good remote-controlled prank or a startling caught-on-camera reaction tend to eat up on late-night YouTube channels.

Wax Jimmy eventually made it to Madame Tussauds Hollywood for the “Jimmy Kimmel Live Experience,” but the office footage is the version that’s going to stick around online — Micki still hasn’t lived down throwing her phone across the room, and you can bet Kimmel’s crew is already plotting what gets hidden around the office the next time a new prop shows up.