Alan Cumming Tells a Hilarious Story about Kristin Chenoweth and a Basket of Muffins
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2021
- Alan Cumming talks about his time in and escape from Australia as well as his show Schmigadoon!
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Alan Cumming is the most charming and funny guest ever for talk shows. And he never eases up on his Scottish accent.
Previously not familiar but am now a totally agreeing fan!
Love that he's from Scotland and Abercrombie runs through my blood thanks to mom!!
After reading his book, you realise he endured more as a little boy in Scotland than most people do their whole lives. Amazing man.
Seth: "You know him from his work on The Good Wife..."
Me: "nope. That's Floop from Spy Kids"
I LOVE that he properly used the word "burgled," rather than "robbed."
Yes! I’m also passionate about language accuracy😅
burglary is when no one is present? right? robbery is taking something from a person?
buuuuurrrrrglllled
i prefer burglurd.
Now y'all got me thinking about Ronald's nemesis, the Hamburgler!
If you haven't read his memoir "Not My Father's Son," I highly recommend that you do. It's beautifully written. He did his own reading for the audio book, which you can find easily online.
I was just going to post the same comment, then I saw yours. It’s a wonderful book.
@@andjulia9292 I'm a huge fan of the Frinckazoid.
Agree. Wonderful book!
The only autobiography I've ever listened to, I couldn't stop! As if I didn't love him enough before❤️❤️❤️
@@joanneweiss3864 My feeling precisely. I've listened to it twice now.
Alan Cumming is a fantastic actor! I very much admire him.
Alan has been in so many small but pivotal roles in movies and TV shows. It's always fascinating to hear him speak.
Uninterrupted! Hope the audience don't come back .
He disappears into every roll if you're not looking for him you don't always recognize him expecially when he hides his accent. Dude was freaking nightcrawler. NIGHTCRAWLER
He's my favorite! Check him out in The Anniversary Party if you can find it.
I fkn love Alan! So funny and charming. Has a kind word to say about everyone and tells such funny stories. No awkwardness in this guy. Great guest.
My favorite guest so far and I'm a long term fan. Much love to Alan Cummings! A true icon. I love the chemistry between these too. I want to know more about their history together.
Right?! From the very begining he came on & did a song from Cabaret. The best. Also love his story about the Carlyle
He Is a Beutiful Human 💫
He’s an international treasure but also a very fun and warm person if you ever had the chance to meet him.
Have you?
@@gratefulslug1390 Yes, multiple times. One time, I was at his bar in the East Village and he hosted a Tony Awards party for all the patrons and he bought pizza for us all and gave away prizes in a trivia game and we were all gloriously drunk.
@@AtWordsPoetic lol that's awesome!
Adorable man
I fell in love with Alan years ago when I saw him in Circle of Friends with Minnie Driver. He played a nasty piece of work, but he was memorable! Great movie, catch it if you can.
I love the hilarious muffins story towards the end.
Sometimes when I see that Alan Cumming has been made again to drop his Scottish accent for a role and speak American, it makes me think it would be so much better if everyone else just spoke with a Scottish accent so that he didn't have to change his. :)
It’s probably because most actors can’t do, or butcher the Scottish accent. Not that I blame them. It’s a hard accent to learn.
Sean Connery never dropped his accent. He played a captain on a Russian submarine with a Scottish accent.
@@bostonblackie9503 I saw him in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Harrison Ford put on a Scottish accent when he was trying to get into a castle too (delivering tapestries). It was a pretty funny scene. Great movie too.
@@bostonblackie9503 that’s because Sean Connery is Scottish 😂👍. He’s from Edinburgh.
@@Raven1303x I guess you missed the Russian submarine part of that comment, lol.
I did not want to miss this...Alan is brilliant. Especially enjoyed PBS Masterpiece.
I could listen to him talk forever. I love him! Such a brilliant storyteller and such a wit!
I love Alan!!! There is just something about him. Want that man in my life. I think he would be such an interesting (and fun) person to be around….
One of the best Interviewees in the world....
You've got to be kidding!!
Dr Ari Chand you don't have to be a great interviewer when you've got Alan Cumming as a guest to be fair.
One of the best interviewees!
Haha I meant interviewees!
I am SHOOK at the revelation that he's not a huge musical theatre fan.
I love Alan Cummings!
Also he's the best narrator of the audiobooks Leviathan.
Thank you for letting me know that!!!
After reading all these comments, I now have a list of movies to watch and books to read that should keep me busy for next several months. Thanks for the heads-up!
"I'm a bad musical queer person" hahahahaha omg same
I love @alancumming!!!! that smile that voice and his sense of humour just unique qualities! Please globetrot to Chile
Kristin Chenoweth is great in singing, fairy tale like shows. I thinking of Pushing Daisies .
Can't wait to see her in this new show. :D
I loved Pushing Daises!! Such an underrated show.
Was she in Pushing Dasies? I so wanted to watch it when it first came out but could never find a way to watch it. If she's in it it's time to try a bit harder to find it
Pushing Daisies was a GREAT GREAT SHOW
@@barryreinitz7331 It was! My wife didn't really like it but then we watched "Halt and Catch Fire" that Lee Pace was in and she really liked that so she gave "Pushing Daises" another chance and enjoyed it.
We absolutely loved having Alan in Adelaide and definitely heard about Mariano and also the muffins! Such fun! I would add that Australia has been one of the safest countries to live in during the last year and still is. We've been locking down and getting rid of any virus quickly - except for one state. Stay safe Alan and all.
I loved this singing scene in Schmigadoon so much 😂😂
Congratulations Isabelle 🎉
🧁 🧁
I miss Alan Cumming in "Instinct"-- ran for 2 seasons on CBS, then was canceled.
Without the note, muffins ARE a thoughtful gesture. The family is usually stuck there all day, snacks are really useful.
Agreed, especially if someone else sends a bouquet of whisky...
@@AshleyVN Lmasssso
Way to totally miss the point.
She obviously didn't know she was dead, derp.
@@taylordani11 wait. Help me out. Who missed the point?
@@robingarrett3171 Tracie Irene missed it by ignoring the humor of the misunderstanding.
It goes without saying that muffins are a good gift.
I’m glad to see Alan!!!! He’s so talented!!!
When Kristin Chenoweth was performing with Seattle Men's Chorus one number required her to wear an outlandish headdress. Someone sent her my way when she asked who designed the headdress, because all she had was the first name of Tom. I had to redirect her to the correct Tom, unfortunately, as she approached. She is absolutely adorable, and talented.
She was also great in The West Wing. I have always followed her career since then. So talented.
I want Cecily on Late Night to promote this show just to get 20 minutes of her and Seth talking
My Canadian passport was eaten by a reindeer... in Maine, of all places. So I feel for ya.
@@TheLieselMD I was pulling another reindeer's antlers out of a fence... and she just came up behind me, and yoinked it from my back pocket. I got part of it back, but most of it was.. um.. unrecoverable.
My fault for having it on me that day, really. 🤷♂️
@@NewMessage I love this whole story so much!
That was Blitzen. Santa put him up to it. He deals in stolen passports for his illegal alien elves.
This made my day 🦌
I can't compete with the reindeer story, but I once had my passport stolen on holiday in France, and decided just to chance it on returning to Dover. At the desk I started to explain to the guy what had happened, and he was like, mate, you can't be a fake with an accent like that, on you go.
I'm from Glasgow.
It’s warms me how Alan wouldn’t know Olivia Rodrigo’s name but still has the grace to say she’s lovely 😊.
I can't even begin to describe how much I love this man.
Alan Cummings is the BESt storyteller! I've seen him as well on Graham Norton and he's a stitch!
I love, love Alan Cumming! He was incredible in Broadway’s “Cabaret!” Did you know he played the nerdy Russian computer hacker in James Bond’s “Goldeneye?”
“I am INVINCIBLE!”
I've been singing Rodgers & Hammerstein and Lerner & Loewe since I was 4 years old! I sang all the songs throughout my childhood. I knew all the references of the songs of Schmigadoon.
I absolutely adore Alan Cummings and his body of work!!!
seth has such good chemistry w every guest. it’s so fun to watch.
Nothing about this man will ever change from his only role he ever mattered in... "I AM IIINVIIIIINCIBLE" Goldeneye 007
In think he should be a "Bond" villian.
Winnie Wallace...Read ,Not my Father's Son, a couple of years ago. Will now be a fan for life. Love you Al, you're hugely talented and a very funny raconteur.
Love Alan Cumming...could just listen to him read the telephone book!!
He is an excellent story teller!
I have enjoyed all of your talents that have come within my reach.
Thank you
He's a great story teller.
He’s amazing in Strange Music! Absolutely rocked in it!
God I love his accent. I love Scottish accents. They're some of the most beautiful sounding accents in the world.
He is such a sweet man. Watching him in Who Do You Think You Are was really moving.
I have a major crush on this man!
Fun story: I was Burgled when I lived in Chicago. Called my mom to tell her 'I WAS ROBBED!' while the cops were inspecting my apartment and they were very keen to correct me and say, 'Actually, you were burgled. A robbery involves violent theft.'
Thanks. . . That makes it so much better.
OMG !!! What a terrific story
I adore Alan Cumming....
I think Alan was like the Mayor of Munchkin Land or the Emerald City or whatever in the Wizard of Oz.
CORRECTION Seth’s comment on using robbed vs burgled. I thought about this when Alan first said burgled - what’s the difference between being burgled and being robbed? Burglary specifically refers to a home being broken into and stolen from, whereas robbing can happen anywhere. You can be robbed on the street or in a park, but you can only be burgled at home.
Kind of! Burglary specifically refers to your things being stolen while no one is there. Your car could be burgled for instance. Robbed means that you are present, your house is robbed if you are there. If you're mugged on the street you were robbed because you were present.
It sounds nitpick but it's a BIG legal difference because the thief potentially threatened your life during a robbery whereas a burglary isn't a direct threat to your person
You are both wrong. Burgled means stealing from someone without the use of violence and robbing someone includes the use or threat of violence. Doesn't matter where it happens or who is there. Someone can burglerize your home even if you are home if they steal from you without coming into contact with you.
So the Ham Burglar steals your cold dead hamburgers when you're not home, rather than from your hands like a Ham Robber?
This is a good discussion! I looked up on several sources, and here are the definitions:
- Theft: when someone intentionally takes and carries away, uses, transfers, conceals, or retains possession of movable property of another without the other’s consent and with intent to deprive the owner permanently of possession of such property.
- Burglary: when someone intentionally unlawfully enters a building, structure or vehicle without the consent of the person in lawful possession and with intent to steal or commit a crime including, but not limited to, theft.
- Robbery: when someone takes property from the person or presence of the owner by either using force or by threatening the imminent use of force.
So burglary means you illegally entered a building/vehicle to commit a crime, whether or not a person was there. Robbery means you stole something using or threatening force against a person. And theft is the generic umbrella term for illegally taking possessions.
Sources:
Merriam Webster: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burglary
Cornell Law: www.law.cornell.edu/wex/burglary , www.law.cornell.edu/wex/robbery#:~:text=The%20unlawful%20taking%20of%20property,use%20of%20threat%20or%20force. , www.law.cornell.edu/wex/theft#:~:text=The%20generic%20term%20for%20all,use%20(including%20potential%20sale).
Hart Powell - Milwaukee: www.kohlerandhart.com/articles/theft-burglary-and-robbery-key-differences/.
Find Law: www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/burglary-overview.html , www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/robbery-overview.html
@@oneworld2233 O! EM! _GEE!!!_ The www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burglary#faqs section has the most _hilariously_ sounding words that I have GOT to bring back into parlance somehow:
Other Words from _burglary_
burglarious \ ˌbər-ˈgler-ē-əs \ _adjective_
burglariously _adverb_
I can't help but imagine the Bog King and the Sugar Plum Fairy (their Strange Magic characters) doing exactly that.
It would be WONDERFUL if Seth went Day Drinking with Alan Cumming 😍
I love Alan Cumming but can I just say I love you who comment and apart of this community
You’ve got a lovely name.
Even funnier that he doesn't know Musicals and Brigadoon is set in Scotland too!
I'm sure it just slipped his mind:)
OMG! The muffin story is too funny.
Love this guy and he is fabulous...maybe a duo with Randy Rainbow 🌈 would be warranted and so appreciated!!
Not Sorry at all that I think I love Alan Cumming.
He’s a doll!
Hey, as an Australian, I’d point out that our current “crisis” involves a hundred or so cases and zero deaths in a day. Everything is relative, isn’t it? And our vaccination rate is not satisfactory, but it is actually at around 40%.
also we want them, it's just our feds stuffing it up
I concur with your sentiment 100%
Melbourne Australia.
40% I don’t think so.
@@MrTaylor1964 you are right - 30% (my apologies). Admittedly that is first doses, but note that the advice for optimum potency is to delay 2nd dose until a full 12 weeks and this has inhibited the Australian full vaccination rate over other countries with more urgent problems. UK has shortened interval to as little as 4 weeks.
I’m a Canadian doctor working in Melbourne Australia, they did stuff it up a bit at the beginning particularly with regard to the role out with GP clinics, but they seem to have gotten their act together now and it’s going much smoother
i watched the first few episodes of the new show it is awesome :-D
I was meant to see his show in Sydney but we are in lockdown now hopefully we get told a new date sometime soon I don't wanna wait ages & not hear what's happening.
I am invincible!
See Alan in "Plunkett & Macleane" (1999) you will NOT be disappointed.
So good. With young Liv Tyler
@@samanthab1923 For me she will always be ''young Liv Tyler" Stealing Beauty was absolutely magic!
black bird Absolutely! Classic beauty. Just watched a tour of her old East Village TH on AG. Sold the NYC place, living in London now. Didn't know her at the time but Mrs. James Bond was in Stealing Beauty as well.
@@samanthab1923 Jeremy Irons, and the entire European cast whom we see in smaller films but rarely in the US on the big screen just hit a home run with that one. I spent half a year in Italy and that scenery just brought me back.
black bird You're very lucky, have not been to Italy yet. Found Jeremy Irons in Brideshead & always enjoy him. Have a great weekend 😊
My gosh I knew he was Scottish but I had no idea how thick his accent was, we stan
I always forget he’s Scottish 😂
I’m shocked by his accent EVERY time. I don’t know why I never learn lol
So do I!!! I will sometimes almost remember but I still mess up and think he’s British 🤦🏻♀️.
Not just Scottish VERY Scottish 😶 I've never heard his actual voice before and I'm trippin 😅 he's awesome
@@tesssully4250 No, he's not VERY Scottish. You can still understand him.
@@johnburnside7828 😂😂 Good one!
I loved "anniversary party"
Now that I know of it, I will have to borrow from the Library. Also other movies as well as the books he has authored. 🤓
i just cannot
omg
hahhahha
Point taken, Alan... No one says "buggerized", do they? ; )
Only when there have been multiple buggerings...
@@AshleyVN as a gay man in lockdown in Australia I’d take a good multiple buggering in a heartbeat lmao 🤣
OMG he looks like he smells fantastic 👏 😍
What does that even mean?
Also, how much time do you spend sniffing people and why?
The short bit of singing Alan Cummings did in the clip sounded "South Pacific"ish
Yes, exactly the musical "era" they are trying to reproduce. I remember listening to my mother's vinyl records of South Pacific, Oklahoma, The King and I, several others. Such wonderful memories.
I miss Adelaide so much.
hilArious 🤣
Alan, you can have extra pages added to your passport at the embassy or closest consulate!
Americans don't say "burgled" because it's actually a strange back-formation from the noun "burglar". It's like saying that a butcher butches, or a cougar cougs. When the noun has been formed from a verb, like "farmer", of course you can go back to "farm". But the British verb "burgle" came after the noun. We made it up because it sounds right, not because it makes any more or less grammatical sense than "burglarize". I like the idea of cougars couging though.
I always laugh when i read that surname, lmao
I had tickets for that Australian tour 😞
Seth loved the impersonation!
It's cute how excited Seth is to see him xD Alan looks like a Willy Wonka/PeeWee hybrid in that Good Wife clip, it's amazing and slightly frightening
He's such an amazing storyteller and sooooo cute!
Bernard and the Genie. Hamlet, Cabaret, The High Life - the career that was
That muffin story 💀💀💀
Love that fake Scottish accent! LOL, never ceases to surprise me, love this actor.
Fake?
Dude it's his real accent lmao
I love both of these guys but it is worth noting that Australia is not even close to America in terms of Covid impact. 1 in 750 Australians has tested positive for COVID vs 1 in 10 Americans.
But I do agree our vaccine roll out has been awful
Americans talk this way seeming to forget 600k of them died before they all got vaccines...
The villain of Spy Kids!
Oh, dammit, Alan, I've watched this before, I've heard you tell that absolutely fabulous Kristin story before and still I have had an 'accident' laughing so hard.
the audience didn't know what to do with that information LMAO
Come to Vacationland. Maybe you will be allowed to leave. Hahaha, maybe
6:50 for title story
I was eating muffins while I watched this... 😅
I hope they aren’t funeral muffins?
@@barbarajoseph-adam8337 no they were gluten free muffins
@@barbarajoseph-adam8337 if Kristen Chenowith sent me funeral muffins I would gladly eat them!
@@vamanosninja4143 Oh, that’s good. I’ve lost so many people this pandemic - family, friends, employees... my brain just went straight there.
@@barbarajoseph-adam8337 I'm sorry to hear that
As of January 9, 2022, over 92% of Australians are at least double vaccinated against COVID.
That’s a Loki variant
That was a hilarious story. I am a big fan of musicals and fairly knowledgeable, but just did not get Schmigadoon, after watching 2 episodes.
Depends on the context and pov. "I was burgled." "He committed a burglary." "They where burglarized."
It's "burgled".
'I was burgled.
He/She/They were burgled.
You were burgled.'
Nope... your "I' and your "They" examples are the same structure. The real difference is: You were burgled in Scotland and burglarized in the US.
@@samcroft7084 Or, 'Alan got it right'. 😁
I love Alan Cummings, love his brogue, love the stories; I also think he’s right about “burglarized”. That sounds like some sort dry cleaning process. He’s also right about being burgled. In the US robbery and burglary are different things. Cummings shouldn’t have said he was robbed because technically he wasn’t. It’s a robbery if something is taken from you in person. When it’s taken in your absence, it’s a burglary.
He should be a "Bond" villian.
Damn Alan is looking hot