- I hate musicals.
- (female) What?
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Okay, back to why I hate musicals.
Sometimes in interviews I'm asked this question,
What's something people would be surprised
to know about you Mayim?
In this celebrity tell all kind of situation
I think they expect me to say things like,
I only eat green M&M's
or I can't get through the weekend
without a mimosa every Saturday morning.
Instead I tend to offer very me things like.
Um, I have social anxiety.
I pick pennies up of the street
and I save them and donate the money
to charity at the end of every year.
I've never shaved.
Actually, that's a really good post
that I wrote for Grok Nation,
you may want to go to Grok Nation and check out that link.
And yes, here's the other thing about me
you'd be surprised to know.
I hate musicals.
You know, the singing, dancing, broadway variety,
I hate them, hate them.
I mean sure I have a handful of oldies that I like.
Like Grease,
I can do Guys and Dolls.
♪ I got the horse right here, the name is Paul Revere ♪
♪ And the guy that says the weather's clear ♪
♪ Can do, can do ♪
♪ This guy says the horse ♪
♪ Can do ♪
But for the most part I just don't get
the whole musical thing.
I feel left out.
And honestly, I wish,
I wish I felt differently.
Of all the strange things about me that I embrace,
this is not one of them.
I love that I drive a stick shift
and hardly anyone does anymore.
I love that I'm a hippy and I don't shave.
I love that my kids used a potty instead of diapers.
But this one,
not liking musicals.
I feel like it's a significant social impediment.
My best friend Emou lives in New York.
And every time I come visit,
he expects that we're gonna go see some musicals.
He has been begging me to listen to the Wicked soundtrack
since the day we met.
It's never gonna happen Emou,
Never.
The people who are in musicals are incredibly talented,
I respect them so much.
But when they're talking and then they start singing,
It's like, they'll be talking and like,
♪ I'm going to the park. ♪
No.
It's like being at Disneyland
when you really don't wanna be.
People are consistently incredibly surprised
to hear this about me.
They want to talk to me about this a lot.
What about Bette Midler?
You have to like musicals
because you played Bette Midler in Beaches.
No,
I actually don't.
That wasn't part of my contract.
What about Les Miz?
What about Hamil...?
You can't no like Hamilton!
Bette Midler is incredibly talented
and all of my Bette Midler fan, friends
are so disappointed in me
that I played Bette Midler's character in Beaches
when I was 12 and I don't want to go see her in Hello Dolly.
I mean I would,
like it sounds like fun
but it just hasn't happened.
It's okay.
And Hamilton's music is very catchy, for sure.
My kids listen to it,
I even know some of the lyrics.
I've learned things about Hamilton that I never knew.
Not really good at American History
so it actually has been very helpful.
But the idea of sitting and watching it on stage,
No, I think I'd crawl out of my skin.
I can't.
You know what musical I do love?
I love Cats.
Cats, you know.
The one that's based on T.S. Elliot's poem,
all about cats,
I love it.
I was in an elementary school production
when I was in fifth grade of Cats.
It was like the best thing ever.
So, a play about like the personalities of different cats,
Yes.
Pretty much everything else,
No.
And so, if we ever meet in New York,
you go to your musicals and I will likely be
at the local bar waiting for you to finish
or I'll be at any one of the plays
that Jim Parsons has done
for all of the hiatus years
that I've been on the Big Bang Theory.
I've gone to see his play
every single time he's done one.
And it's been amazing
because I love theater.
And yes, I've taken my best friend Emou to those,
and that keeps the friendship alive.
So you go to your musicals.
I'll go to my plays.
And we can talk about it after.
But in the meantime,
we will have to insert melody here,
agree to disagree.
Tra la la la la la.
♪ Agree to disagree. ♪
♪ Thanks for watching. ♪
♪ See you next... ♪
See, it's wrong.
Thanks for watching, see you next time!