Name: Jim Parsons Ruined His Mother's Christmas - CONAN on TBS
Uploaded: 2020-11-29T21:05:17.000Z
Duration: 3 min 34 s
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happy Thanksgiving to you Gobble, Gobble.

They say, God, would you ever say gobble, gobble And not in that context.

Okay, lets reset Jim thinks is for the family.

This one, uh, they're all gathered around the show watching.

You're not home for Thanksgiving, Mother.

I would I would guess Your family must be disappointed That you're from Texas is I'm from Texas.

Well, they think they've grown accustomed to the lack of me on Thanksgiving.

I've been out here and working with tape last night, so I can't I don't fly home immediately afterwards.

I always go home for yes, that zbig once you never ever miss Christmas.

I missed Christmas once we I got snowed in somewhere in the middle of the country.

I can never remember where I was, but it was We got snowed in and I was alone and I spent the night in the hotel and I went back the next day to try and get on the flight, and they weren't starting up and they finally had just a few de icers.

I guess, and they were doing one runway at a time.

And I was living in New York and they got a flight going out in New York that was gonna leave, and I thought I don't wanna stay here anymore.

And so I was like, I'm gonna go back home to New York.

And so I called him and I said, Listen, they're letting very few flights out, but I'm going to home to New York and she was very quiet, and she literally said, Well, you have ruined Christmas.

Swear to God, she she said that I swear to God, you've ruined Christmas.

I mean, you know, and it was so overdramatic that it was It was kind of nice, because now I have that.

And I've told people that forever, that my mother's actually told me that I've ruined Christmas.

You know, I really think she overdid herself and it took the guilt away.

Now I know that you You have enormous success now, like a lot of actors.

You You did your time in life theater, and I did.

He had a lot of like theater in Houston, which was wonderful, is at the university or whatever.

And I was with a wonderful group there, and, uh, we was some of the best training because we went from different space.

We'd be in, ah, warehouse on wonderful theater.

We did a production of a Beckett show called Endgame once, and my parents came to it and Beckett could be very dour or sad.

I don't know anyway, it's odd, and they thanks Okay, And my mother specifically said to me because I don't like seeing you in this condition, You know, the way I was doing the play and it was just kind of down.

And she said specifically about the warehouse we were in because this is the kind of place you could find a dirty needle in once again, Very dramatic of your mom.

This is where I get the drama from me and the specificity You're absolutely right.

I went back to do the play the next week, and I told the director that she had said that you laughing?

Because we did find a dirty needle s eso, you know, Bravo Mother's instincts.

Your mom should work for the exactly Just like I know this place.

After that, it's What does that say in your cup?

Oh, I just have a little nonsense words I've had.

And that's why No, that's not why you said Gobble, gobble.

 You said it because I think that subliminally affected me, though I could have seen that in the corner of my eyes, all of your anecdotes air written out on this thing. 