I’m not sure if you Cumberbitches are sort of Batched-out or what, so I’m not expecting a ton of interest in this post, but I felt like covering it all the same. Benedict Cumberbatch was a guest on Graham Norton’s show this weekend, along with Chris Pine and Kim Cattrall. Benedict wasn’t totally amazing on the show, but he didn’t embarrass himself either. He was interesting and it’s obvious Graham is sort of a Cumby fan-boy. Chris Pine seemed rather gracious and all three made decent talk-show guests, although nothing really scandalous happened.
Here’s Part I – skip ahead to about 3:30 to see when the guests come on. Chris Pine tells several stories, there’s an interesting one about a Gay Pride parade. Kim Cattrall flirts a little with Benedict, but not as much as you would expect. Benedict starts talking about STID around 8:00-ish. Around the 10-minute mark, Benedict tells a story about Chris pranking him. Around the 13-minute mark, Cumby doesn’t want to say “Cumberbitches” so he says “The Cumber Collective” which is actually a really cute name for us. Also: Chris Pine is strangely sexy. I’m really feeling it for him lately.
Part II – around 1:40 Benedict gives a hug & a kiss to a sweet German Cumberbitch. YES! And then there’s a Hong Kong Cumberbitch and she gets a hug too. It’s pretty amazing. This just goes to show you – Asian girls LOVE some Cumby. Except for the Japanese girl who is all about Chris Pine. Kim talks for a while between 5:30-7:30. Then Benedict starts in about doing Frankenstein on stage. Around the 13-minute mark Benedict talks about Sherlock.
Part III – Benedict starts talking about his voice. Mmm. Cumby also does an impression of Graham Norton. At 3:40 Bonnie Tyler starts singing and it gets kind of boring… let’s see. The rest of it is kind of boring.
Cumby is going to be on Letterman later on this week, and I’m sure we’ll pretty much have Cumby stories every day. Sigh… Cumby is no longer a secret!
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I thought he did well, for someone who looked like he was dressed for his own funeral. Chris Pine is definitely giving the feeling that he isn’t enjoying all the Cumby love. The best bit was Cumby saying “he just kissed my bitch!”
Keep the Cumby posts coming!
I loved it when he clamped his hand over his mouth when he said ‘my bitch’. He such a sweetheart.
I get the feeling he’s genuinely quite baffled at all the Cumby love and is very appreciative of it all.
I’m reserving judgement on Pine.
Okay – that was freaking adorable. Where is Agent MOL – surely this will melt her icy heart. He’s is positively charming. I liked them all.
Am feeling the need for everyone to name their fanbase – imaginary or not. May I suggest the Eyre-heads?
Count me in Miss J!
Fantamaniacs.
And in my head, they are legion.
HA! Eyre-heads is perfect! Can I be both an Eyre-head *and* a Fantamaniac?
I think I can handle the uniforms, the logos & the badges. Although—I’m not much of a “joiner.” I was kicked out of the Brownies because of a bounced check. I guess if your respective Boards don’t pry too much into the credit history of their cult followers…..
Oy. I remember Brownies.
I was politely ‘asked to leave’ as a result of my ‘energetic nature’.
The passive aggressive pansies couldn’t take my affinity with getting down and dirty (in the literal sense, not the ‘with-a-Cumberbatch-in-my-sheets’ sense).
Our local mountain climbing club were much more accommodating 🙂
Hoping the Fantamaniacs and Eyre-heads are able to cater to people of a hyperactive nature!
@j.eyre, et al: Hmmm… Not sure. My heart is pure ice cold, cold, cold… Hell will freeze first! …D*mn! I sound like Eve all judgy and bitchy.
B*tch (Cumby), cover your forehead!
I will watch this, after my amazing round of experiments and 5 mile run. Yes, I am going to walk to work and back home(3 miles each way). So, yeah… It may help melt my heart
@Amelia, I almost got kicked out of Brownies. My mum got called in a few times because I was apparently distracted and disinterested. Soz, how excited was I supposed to be about bedazzling Xmas tree ornaments?
So, where do I sign up for Fantamaniacs and Eyre-heads? Is there a Venn diagram for the overlap (that was such a geeky thing for Cumby to say)?
First of all, since all of our other fans have been stolen from our children’s toy chests, any tangible members of the Erye-heads or Fantamaniacs are welcome with open arms. Bring your hyper-active, badge-rejecting, cookie-consuming selves on over.
I am a out and proud Fantamaniac and urge everyone else to be as well – there are no fandom wars as long as certain people who head up the Fantamaniacs don’t sneak in and steal TommyannE from my bed while I sleep off position 137.
Now, as Fanty works on her theme song, I am organizing my first fundraiser called Barter-for-Booze. I have no idea if this will actually earn any money but it will be a cracking good time.
Wow—I can’t believe there are other ex-Brownies here! I think Brownies were a pre-school for Girl Scouts, weren’t they? There were also Bluebirds. I forget which one fed into the Girl Scouts.
I remember being horrifed by the suggestion that I go into the Girl Scouts—I didn’t care if they did have the good cookies. And I never, ever got a crush on a boy who was or had ever been a Boy Scout. The exciting rascal bad boys were never in the Boy Scouts.
Okay, try this;
Wherever I am, there’s always Jane,
EsCon, M and Miss C,
Whomever I do, she’s up for, too,
“Who are we doing today?” Says Jane,
“TommyAnnE? Let’s give him pain!”
Let’s do him together, says Jane, says she,
Let’s do him together, says Jane.
(I wonder if we can get an A.A. Milne picture of Miss Jane gently leading Hiddles up the stairs?)
@ Mrs. Eyre – umm excuse me, pray tell why exactly are you having a Barter for Booze charity drive? I’M RIGHT HERE!
I mean, gee, just because I insisted on making my own Eyre Head shirt to display my creativity/bloodsweattears instead of wearing the official scout shirts doesn’t mean you have to just go and disregard my services like that. *grumbles, crosses arms, narrows eyes, acts like a recalcitrant child*
And that, dear Fanty, is why I fly my Fantamaniac flag so freely. Possibly the greatest theme song ever. And I love the suggestion of me doing TommyannE. You’re brilliant.
@ProBeer, now, now dear. Can you not see me wearing your clever shirt at this moment? I have just written up the Eyre-Head Newsletter in which your darling shirts are going official. The Barter for Booze program was not actually me giving you up to every cutie that offered me a belt of something – we rejected that in the last meeting (albeit just barely.) I was simply going to stock the living room full of cases of booze and people will have to tell me some charitable act they feel like doing for some spirits. (hint, if you suggest me as what you feel like doing, you get the good stuff)
However, since I can’t be bothered to follow up and see if you actually do it, there really is no culpability so bottoms up!
@EsCon – get that Boy Scout uniform off Cumby… it’s too late now, darling.
@Fanty,
That is a great @#$!ing theme song! After we learn new dance steps for this, can we work on the Lobster Quadrille?
@PromisedBeer,
Did someone promise you beer & then bait-and-switch you to umbrella cocktails? No wonder you’re hopping mad.
If you can keep a secret, I’ll show you where Miss Eyre hides the good beer. She never thinks anyone will go up into the attic! Ha!
Jane, I am having an awful time trying to get this Boy Scout uniform off Cumby. Every bit of it is getting stuck to his black hair pomade. You should see how silly he looks at the moment, with little badges & multi-colored ribbons sticking in & out of his hair at random. He looks like Keith Richard, all willy-nilly.
@ Mrs. Eyre – you had me so scared! I worked so hard to design a flawless, multi-colored blouse that would both flatter all of our various forms AND hide our occasional spilled drinks. I mean, I don’t *miiiiind* doing things I like for free, but my name isn’t a misnomer, either. Is all I’m saying.
@EsCon – can you keep a secret? I already found the Good Beer stash. I bribed Bertha with some delish French-Caribbean cooking (reminds her of home, you know) and I was in like Flint.
But really, I can handle umbrella cocktails, I just didn’t want my t-shirt design services to have been for naught if Mrs. Eyre was auctioning away all the booze!
@PromisedBeer,
Perfectly reasonable. And it was very clever of you to bribe Bertha. She seems to like you. Mr. Rochester should have promised her beer, & given her lots of it a long time ago; he might have avoided all of that unpleasantness.
I’m just worried about one thing with my Tee-shirt: Will it fit over my bustle?
@ProBeer (LOVE the abbreviation of your name);
When I first read your previous comment, I thought you were making a shirt with a bloodspatter pattern of Miss Eyre’s head. I was starting to sidle away sloooooowly, then I saw what you said about finding the beer stash. Can I stay?
@Amelia,
I forgot to tell you how much I like “passive aggressive pansies.”
I hope to use it soon, & I will cite you. 😉
Yeah, that was my favorite part too. That, and the “neutron shake.” I can’t believe Nebraska flew all the way out there when he’s going to be on Letterman anyway. But hey, it paid off, she actually got a hug and a kiss!
haha – ya I think Pine is a pretty good actor, but not particularly charismatic. He’s certainly eclipsed by BC here.
His face…
I don’t want to hear another person slam one of my favorites after looking at this man’s face.
This! Thanks for providing a safe haven to post my comment.
A thousand and one apologies to all of the (inexplicable to me) Benedict Cumberbatch fan girls here, but this guy looks like Sheldon Cooper’s (“The Big Bang Theory”) stranger, more anal-compulsive ‘brother.
Sorry again, because I really do try to skip posts of people I have no interest in … I just had to say it. I ‘really’ don’t get the appeal of this man.
The attraction was a mystery (ha!) to me until I saw Sherlock for the first time. He’s oddly sexy in that in ways that would take longer than a blog comment to say. But in these pictures, he looks like a ghost who decided to become an Undertaker.
I think he did really well. The show was hilarious. I can only hope that his future appearances on Letterman and Jimmy Fallon will be this good
I almost bought the exact same cardigan he is wearing in the bottom picture. It made me feel like I was standing outside a windswept estate in Scotland, glass of scotch in hand. For that “Oh, I just borrowed this sweater from my boyfriend…” Look.
I’d only believe that if you had a couple of hedgehogs stuck to it.
(ETA: it is a nice cardi, though. Once in a while, through sheer coincidence, he gets his wardrobe right)
Any guesses as to the brand? My first guess is Pringle’s of Scotland, but that’s about the only cashmere that I know.
And I do love the sweater, but I suspect that’s an ugly t-shirt underneath it.
I loved him on Graham Norton. Am I the only one who is a bit bothered by the length of his hair? It’s neither here or there and looks kinda creepy. Apart from that, he’s still awesome… and sweet
EsCon and I theorize that he’s opening a Richard E. Grant themed funeral parlor: Withnail and Die.
OMG…dead. That is hilarious!
And now you owe me a new keyboard, screen, AND a cup of coffee. 😀
That Fanty is a scream, I’m tellin’ ye! (I often have to mop the entire area around my computer when reading her comments. Teacups get knocked over, & the hedgehogs love Miss Eyre’s lavender tea.)
Dude… he’s filming Sherlock! He has to have long hair for the part. Cut him some slack.
It’s not so much the length, it’s the way he styled it. If it was loose and curly like his hair is naturally, it would look much better.
I’m guessing that he probably chose the slicked back style because it looked the least dorky.
He has said that he doesn’t like his hair this long. But he needs the length for the Sherlock `do. What’s throwing everything off is that it looks so strange slicked down & gelled to within an inch of its life.
When allowed to roam free, those lovely “twisted & diffused” curls make his face look so different.
I just think they went too heavy on the black dye & the gel. It really changed his face. But he’s beautiful anyway, I don’t care!
He’s also losing a lot of hair too, unfortunately. Slicking it back really emphasizes how much his hairline has receded.
Ew! He is SO ugly.
Ok – so it’s not just me who just doesn’t get him either.
Many don’t get him but that’s ok. More for the rest of us 😀
I’m a big fan if Kim Catrall, so it was nice to see her on the show.
Benedict gave a great interview, in my opinion. He’s such a funny guy. I hope he knocks it out of the park on Star Trek.
And I’ve got to give Chris Pine some props for looking very handsome.
Yes, Kim looked great.
Ya I enjoyed seeing Kim Cattral and she is very funny – she also looks fantastic!
I absolutely don’t get the Cumby love and believe me I’ve tried.
I mean, yes, he’s a great actor and seems like a lovely, funny guy. But just based on looks? Hell no.
Especially when you have Chris Pine (who’s never done anything for me until now) with his gorgeous three-piece suit and his beard. I must be shallow because Chris seems way less interesting and nice than Cumby and yet… there we go.
It’s weird, chris pine does nothing to me, but benedict, man’s like a dream to me and he’s interesting, something chris pine certainly is not.
He was actually GREAT in it!
I still don’t see it. He is very unique though. No doppelgangers that’s for sure, you won’t see him in a Celebrity Lookalikes list.
I’ve only seen the last bit (I’m saving myself for when it’s on BBC America later in the week), but I thought that was good. The only drawback was the too somber suit and that hair-love the color, hates that he ALWAYS slicks it back. Batch, I like your face, but you have to accept that you have a five head that needs to be covered a bit, and you look better in loose curls.
I’m half expecting a forked tongue to come slithering out of that picture
Oh my god… let me just say, I love this man to pieces and I don’t like reading negative comments about his appearance from others… but that “forked tongue” comment made me die of laughter.
😀 Whether negative or positive, I swear Cumby posts always incites the best comments. Thanks for the laugh moon!
Can I just say he can do no wrong. I’m in the collective. Now he has Sherlock hair. Wear it you beautiful man. You are stunningly gorgeous and you slick it back and then some people cannot see your gorgeous alien beauty. Sok. There enough with a Cumbercrush that it is unnecessary to prove your looks. Just your voice and presence alone sells it.
It’s the year of the batch. Go Ben go.
The Cumberbatch Collective is wonderful. I picture you all wearing suits with cardigans instead of suit coats and sunglasses with some obscure hedgehog tattoo on your inner wrists.
I have not watched but will do so now. Thank you for posting the clips – I had the wrong date.
My apologies – the Cumber collective – even better.
Sweet, isn’t it? The Cumber Collective is turning us into The Borg.
It just occurred to me that Cumby would make a fantastic “Q.”
@j.eyre: He is too…upper class to call yo cumberb*tches. What a gentlemen you got, Ccollective!
Yes, but the Collective sounds so organized. Don’t get me wrong, i relish my ranks among the Dragonflies but in contrast we sound a bit… flighty.
Gentleman*…
Yeah, the collective is too organized…Of course, you gotta be to follow a posh star…
Dragonflies have more fun!
In re-watching the Hobbit I noticed Cumberbatch has a credit…. “wha…?” I wondered aloud. Scroll through credits again. There he is: “The Necromancer.” (Seen for approximately two seconds in a black, fuzzy silhouette emerging from some ruined Middle Earth structure). I guess his character will be developed in Hobbit part 2?
And, sorry, but IMO he is just SO INCREDIBLY WEIRD-LOOKING. Something about his features looks as if his head was squeezed between a vice (that’s “vise” for you Americans) when he was young. And I mean no disrespect to his manifest acting talent and wonderful personality.
“I guess his character will be developed in Hobbit part 2?”
Yes and he’s also the voice of Smaug the dragon.
I thought it was very sweet that he went bounding up & down those steps to hug his long-distance bitches.
I have no idea what’s involved in getting tickets to Graham Norton. But those fans must have gone to some trouble to be there, & it’s sweet that they got hugs! He looked touched that they came so far to see him.
I leave you with Conan O’Brien’s video blog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f-NkavrZDI
Watch it, you’ll have a laugh. It’s Cumberbatch related 😉
Fugnacious Quash rules!
Sigh…Blusterby Diggenploof…..
This bit of Conan’s just shows me that Cumby has given more to the world of entertainment by simply being named Benedict Cumberbatch than any other actor I can think of. Is there a sillier, more wondrous name?!
@EsCon,
You are so lovely! I imagine you with little winged cherubic hedgehogs twirling around your head as you dream of Cumby.
Thank you, Fanty. Sniff–I think ~you’re~ lovely.
Oh, wait……you can see the little cherubim?
Don’t look at me!!
His looks are very peculiar.
I won’t call myself a Cumberbitch exactly but I do get why women like him. He is a terrific actor as well.
Definitely not one of the best episodes from this show. The one with Adele or any with Joan Rivers are still unbeaten. I laughed until I cried. =)
Adele “…hula-hooping my dress around my neck” after an “embarassing morning encounter” wins hands down.
God Chris Pine is boring in interviews. And I always forget how soft-spoken Kim Cattrall is.
Oh THANK GOD I’m not the only one bored to tears by Chris Pine. Guy does nothing for me looks-wise either–he’s features are just really generic hot guy to me.
Good to see Kim Catrall….the guys are both dapper and well-dressed…with due respect to Cumberbitches, count me in “don’t think he’s remotely attractive” category. I’m sure he’s a nice enough guy, but he is kind of scary looking. Chris Pine looks good.
It’s a testament to this man’s power/aura/vibes that he went on a talk show with the STAR from the same movie, and said start gets barely a mention.
*nods head*. Yes, that is how it is done, mmhmm.
Chris Pine seems dull as dishwater next to Cumby. Maybe even without Cumby.
That’s why they keep making him pose with Zachary Quinto.
@EsCon: Chris Pine is very handsome, but he gives me such a douche vibe. As If he was superior…
@j.eyre: My heart didn’t melted after the 3rd video. Did I miss something?
Awww, I thought they were both sweet! And I’ve said it before, whatever they’re doing with Chris…keep doing it!
But wow I’m sorry if Cumby fell for that prank?! I think he needs a refund on that expensive education! 😉
Random but I loved that when Pine admitted he didn’t know what Eurovision was, all the Europeans looked at him like, “lucky boy”! Dear God that show is cheesy…
They looked smashing!
Finally watched Sherlock yesterday.
I get now the whole Cumby hype.
Kept dreaming of him last night…I think I’ve been Sherlocked.
Really ? Even after Holmes, I don’t get it. I find him ugly and not a bad actor but that’s all. No I really don’t understand
I don’t know how to explain this. It’s not about looks at all. It’s just…he grows on you, and before you know it – you’re batched (is that the word? I’m still new to this)
I don’t want to be rude but I see him like “un effet de mode”, I don’t know how to say that in English. The new “thing” everybody wants but after a short time we leave it in a corner and we wonder why we wanted it.
Have you seen Baby Ben pics?
http://deareje.tumblr.com/
Lovely actor from the very beginning, it seems. Lol
Chris was good but Benedict was great on the show. That impersonation of Graham was so unexpected but pretty dead on. I know a lot of people don’t “get” Benedict but he is such a sweet person and very funny.
The man can’t help the way he looks. He hates the Sherlock hair, he thinks it makes him look like a woman but the slicked back look with that length does absolutely nothing for him.
When Benedict ran up to hug and kiss his fans I bet Chris was going, “Oh shit now I have to do it too.” Chris just doesn’t seem like the warm and fuzzy type. Also, I don’t think Chris appreciates all the Cumby love because he is the star of the movie but Benedict might just bury him on screen.
I somehow skipped the 3rd part of the interview, good thing I came back to notice that.
Graham: “You’ve got this fantastic voice, and you can make anything kind of sound sinister.”
Cumby: “That’s very kind”
I’m wiping my tears now, really.
I’m going to send him a “Feminist Chicks Dig Me” Shirt. Seriously, Benedict, don’t worry about feminism. My feminism is totally intact. The same can be said for the writers of “Bitch” Magazine.