A video has been making the rounds online. Jamie Foxx is sitting in his Rolls-Royce Cullinan in Los Angeles traffic, window down, when an older man in the next car leans over to pay him a compliment. He likes the hat. He likes the look. And then: “You over there looking like Jamie Foxx.”
Foxx doesn’t correct him. He doesn’t say who he is. He keeps a straight face and delivers two lines like he’s been waiting for the setup his whole life. “Man, that’s what they told me,” he says first. Then: “I wish I had some of that Jamie Foxx money.”
The man laughs. The light changes. Both drive off. The clip, posted to X by @KollegeKidd on March 21, has racked up nearly a million views.
The man has a whole routine for this situation, because this situation keeps finding him. In another video circulating online, a different stranger tells Foxx the same thing — that he looks like Jamie Foxx — and Foxx hits them with the same punchline. Same smile. Same delivery. Nobody told him to do this. He just does this.
@mrs.mckenzie329“Over there looking like Jamie Foxx” “Mannnn. I wish I had some of that Jamie Foxx money” This fool. 😂 😭😆♬ original sound – Mrs McKenzie
The funniest man in the room who won’t tell you he’s in the room
What makes the clips land isn’t the irony — though the man is saying “I wish I had some of that Jamie Foxx money” from the driver’s seat of a Rolls-Royce. It’s the choice. He could just tell them who he is. He never does.
The instinct is pure stand-up. Foxx spent the late ’80s and early ’90s working the open mic circuit — that’s actually how he got the name, picking something gender-ambiguous after noticing female comics got called up first. Thirty-five years, an Oscar, and a Grammy later, the reflex hasn’t changed. In the traffic clip, he gives the stranger two punchlines — the setup (“that’s what they told me”) and the closer (“I wish I had some of that Jamie Foxx money”) — delivered with the same deadpan rhythm he’d use on a stage. Except the stage is La Brea Avenue, and the audience is one guy who has no idea he’s in the bit.
A man on his second chance who seems determined to enjoy every minute of it
Since surviving a brain bleed and stroke in April 2023 — an ordeal that left him unconscious for 20 days and unable to walk during recovery — Foxx has been operating with a different energy. He hasn’t come back louder. He’s come back goofier, warmer, like a man who’s decided the only wrong move is taking any of it too seriously.
He adopted “Gang Gang” by Compton rapper Chef Boy as what amounts to a personal theme song, posting video after video of himself dancing to it. He brought Chef Boy out to perform at his Halloween party in 2025. He showed up to the Fanatics Flag Football Classic in March hand-in-hand with his 17-year-old daughter Anelise. In his December 2024 Netflix special What Had Happened Was…, recounting what he told himself in the hospital while he was still learning to walk again, he said the thing that puts all the clips in context: “If I can stay funny, I can stay alive.”
@reecespeanutbutterkupGang gang♬ original sound – Reece
He told BET separately that fame itself isn’t fun anymore — “everything is scrutinized” — but called himself a “gregarious dude” who just wants to have fun. Watch him in any of these clips and it’s obvious which part he’s talking about. The fame — the recognition, the scrutiny, the cameras — that’s the tax. The random conversations with strangers in traffic, the dancing, the laughing — that’s the whole point.
“Still a clone”
After the traffic clip went viral, Foxx didn’t let the moment pass. He reposted the video himself on social media with a caption that only makes sense if you know the backstory: “They say I look like Jamie Foxx…. I’m still a clone.”
The “clone” joke traces back to 2023, when conspiracy theorists online insisted the real Jamie Foxx had died or been replaced during his health scare. Foxx later revealed he was so heavily sedated in the hospital that he briefly believed the conspiracy himself. In his December 2024 Netflix special What Had Happened Was…, he turned the whole thing into a punchline, shouting to the crowd: “There ain’t enough clone juice in the world to clone me.”
Now a stranger in traffic tells him he looks like Jamie Foxx and he goes home and posts “still a clone” with a laughing emoji. He took the conspiracy that tried to erase him and made it a running gag. He took a near-death experience and turned it into permission to be goofier, warmer, and more present than he’s ever been in public.
Most celebrities would have corrected the man in traffic. Foxx gave him a punchline and drove off. Two years ago, he wasn’t sure he’d ever drive anywhere again.
