Jim Parsons to host SNL

[Toad]

Jim Parsons To Host ‘SNL’ When It Returns March 1
BY THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday February 13, 2014 @ 1:16pm PST


Saturday Night Live returns from its Olympics-imposed hibernation March 1, and the NBC late-night show said today Jim Parsons as host with musical guest Beck. It will mark the hosting debut for The Big Bang Theory star — sort of. Jimmy Fallon did a mean Jim Parsons imitation in the winter finale in December. This is what Parsons will have to compete with when it’s his turn: Should we take bets if he gets to rebut the new Tonight Show host?

[FlyingMonkey]

I can't help but dreading that Mayim will crash the party.

[Wisp]

Hosting SNL, hm? Better be on Youtube at some point... Jim always seems sort of shy, to me. Apart from on Craig Ferguson. I wonder how he'll do presenting...
Has anyone else heard that Jim is going to be in a horror film called Visions?

I'm very bad at liking horror films, they're invariably disappointing, but Jim Parsons, so...

And I've always wanted to see him in a more sinister role... Presuming he's not going to be the victim in this film.

David Hyde Pierce was fabulous in The Perfect Host. Very creepy. Watch it. And watch this:





Niles, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

[SpaceAnJL]

I don't doubt that JP could do creepy-sinister extremely well. His cameo in 'Garden State' was slightly dead-eyed and strange, he'd pull that off. Or alternately, a charming, delightful young man with a razor smile and shark's eyes.

Shy? Have you seen this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-R2eqF5m9Y

[Wisp]

I don't doubt that JP could do creepy-sinister extremely well. His cameo in 'Garden State' was slightly dead-eyed and strange, he'd pull that off. Or alternately, a charming, delightful young man with a razor smile and shark's eyes.

Shy? Have you seen this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-R2eqF5m9Y

I have. Many times. Blame it on the tiny blue pants...

Okay, maybe not shy but... vaguely self-conscious. Again, blame it on the tiny blue pants.

[SpaceAnJL]

He is a ridiculous human being, bless him. And I wouldn't call any man that cheerfully drags up that much, or runs about in those budgie smugglers on camera, self-conscious.

I'd love to see him in something that really stretched his acting abilities. 'Sheldon' has degenerated into a cartoon, he can pretty much phone that in. I'd rather like to have seen him as Elwood P Dowd in 'Harvey', too.

[devilbk]

I have a fantasy of Jim and Kaley doing a remake of It Happened One Night.

[SpaceAnJL]

Oh, lord, yes.

You could drop 'em into 'Bringing Up Baby'. Or 'Ball of Fire'. And JP would have made an outstanding job of Mr Deeds.

Dammit, why couldn't we have Capra and Hawks, instead of Beavis and Butthead.

[Idle Miscreant]

No, not "self-conscious" exactly...but...

This bit of fabulous whatthefuckery aside, I've always thought Parsons was a rather dignified, old-fashioned sort of actor, with merely a VERY pronounced streak of Vaudevillianism. (I know it's a bit hard to make the word "dignified" stick with that particular gif flinging itself about up there....I AM sorry)

Shall we have a thread on his theatre work? I think it certainly warrants representation. Space, I would have bloody loved to have seen Harvey as well. It's one of my favourite films....Very suited to that rather fey and quaint quality that Parsons seems to carry with him...(in my opinion, obviously)

Vaguely worried about this SNL thing though. He doesn't seem to add-lib very well, unless he's with that mad bastard Ferguson. SNL's heavily scripted though, isn't it?

[Toad]

The Lady Eve was on a couple nights ago, and I couldn't help but see some similarities between Charles "Snakes are my life" Pike and Sheldon.

Jean Harrington: Do you know Charles?
Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith: Oh, is he the tall backward boy who's always toying with toads and things? Yes, I think I have seen him skulking about.
Jean Harrington: He isn't backwards. He's a scientist.
Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith: Oh, is that what it is? I knew he was...peculiar.