Jimmy Kimmel is having a great week! He started it off on Mondayby becoming a first-time grandfather. Today, Variety is reporting that he is joining the Smurfs movie.
He is not the only late night host who will be in the animated feature; James Corden is also lending his voice to the film. They will be joined by John Goodman, James Corden, Nick Offerman, JP Karliak, Daniel Levy, Amy Sedaris, Natasha Lyonne, Sandra Oh, Octavia Spencer, Nick Kroll, Hannah Waddingham, Alex Winter, Maya Erskine, Billie Lourd, Xolo Maridueña, Kurt Russell, and DJ Marshmello in Smurf Village.
Smurfs follows Smurfette as she leads her tiny, blue-skinned kin into the real world to save Papa Smurf after he’s mysteriously captured by evil wizards.
Are you feeling blue? Well, here is some happy news that will make you even bluer. The Smurfs are coming to Nickelodeon on September 10th with an all-new series.
Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Brainy, Hefty, and Clumsy are all back, as is Gargamel and his cat Azrael.
This news has made me full of joy and happiness; I can’t stop singing, “la la la-la la la la.” So much so, my cat is turning into an Azrael, and I am looking like Smurfette to her. Oh, Smurf!
Now, when is someone going to bring back the Snorkels?
As we learned from The Simpsons and The Smurfs, Hank Azaria is great at doing voices. Well now, he is using that gift on Sesame Street to teach Elmo about the word imposter. Gargamel did his best Grover and Cookie Monster, and he had our favorite ticklish Muppet fooled. In fact, his last one was so good; I was surprised that Elmo didn’t realize Hank was an imposter! Even I didn’t know he was an imposter, did you?
Jayma Mays was a guest on The Tonight Show yesterday and she told Jay Leno how she almost didn’t make it to the NBC show for her appearance. The Glee star explained that she had a really bad ear infection for the last week. It got so bad, she started to have blood come out of her ear and she thought her eardrum burst. So she went to the doctor, who told her he wasn’t sure if she had done that because there was so much blood. He sent the nurse in to drain her ear with some drops. As the RN did that she started to back away and ran to get the doctor. When he came in, the Smurfs actress thought maybe her brain was coming out and got very nervous. Turns out a bug had been living in her ear and when the nurse drained it, the drops drowned the bug releasing it from its new home.
So why did the bug decide to make her ear their home? It’s because her ears are so clean that lack of wax buildup gave the bug enough room to make her head its house. So the next time you grab your Q-Tip just remember this story.
Could you imagine how her Glee character, Emma Pillsbury, would react to this? Even worse than Ashton Kutcher did. He was more grossed out by it than she was.
The first full trailer is out for Smurfs 2, and I can’t wait to see it when it comes out on July 2nd. The first movie wasn’t perfect, but it was a lot of fun. It looks like this one will be even better because it will focus more on the Smurfs and less on the humans!
