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00:02His movie's a love letter to fashion, and spoiler alert, his boat's gonna crash, hun.
00:08It's Watch What Happens Live with BJ Novak and Jim Parsons now.
00:12Yay!
00:14Andy Pills got the 411.
00:17King, king of the night.
00:19I got MCAC.
00:22Hey everybody, welcome to Watch What Happens Live.
00:24I'm your host, Sandy Cohen, in the Bravo Clubhouse, wishing everyone a happy 421.
00:30We celebrate it big here in the clubhouse.
00:32My first guest is a ridiculously talented actor, writer, and chain restaurant enthusiast
00:36who's starring in a highly anticipated sequel that's rumored to be more groundbreaking
00:41than Spring Florals from The Devil Wears Prada 2, which hits theaters nationwide May 1st.
00:47Welcome BJ Novak.
00:50Hey BJ.
00:53Great to see you.
00:53My next guest is telling the story of the world's most devastating maritime tragedy,
00:57as God intended, through the magic of Celine Dion power ballads.
01:02Go see Titanic on Broadway at the St. James Theater now through July 12th.
01:06Give it up for Jim Parsons.
01:08Hey Jim.
01:11Jim, of course, is in drag for this performance, which is very exciting.
01:16It's very happy-making.
01:18Is it?
01:19Oh my God, yes.
01:21Were you ever someone who liked to slap on some lipstick in a dress?
01:2430 years ago, I was cast in a couple of drag roles in Charles Bush's plays in Houston,
01:30and it was absolutely a life-changing experience.
01:33How amazing.
01:34It was.
01:34I love that.
01:35It's so nice to revisit this bitch inside again.
01:37There you go.
01:38It really is.
01:38Yes.
01:39She's out.
01:39She's free.
01:40Have the two of you ever met?
01:42No.
01:43Just in the green room.
01:44Wow.
01:44Yes.
01:45That seems impossible.
01:46It doesn't feel like it.
01:46It does seem impossible.
01:48Yeah.
01:48Well, this is very exciting.
01:50You made it happen.
01:50Andy Cohen, everybody.
01:51Yes, I did.
01:52Yes, I did.
01:53Making your friends.
01:54Bye.
01:54Yeah.
01:55BJ and I were famously last on television together on New Year's Eve.
02:00That was really fun.
02:01Have you recovered?
02:02I have.
02:02I convinced you to join us in Times Square.
02:06It was the best.
02:06And I'm so glad that you actually were happy about it.
02:10I loved it, and I felt I was sort of your chaperone a little bit at the end.
02:13Yes, I was going off the rails by the time you showed up.
02:16But that's what we got to see.
02:17We love you off the rails.
02:18Right.
02:18Yes.
02:19So it was a wonderful time.
02:20Yes.
02:21Great time.
02:21You told me, you got to come see this.
02:23Right.
02:23And it felt, it's amazing to see just once in your life, right?
02:27That's the way to do it.
02:28Jim, I'm looking at you next year.
02:29I would like to see it.
02:30I'm frightened, but I would like to see it.
02:32No, it's cool.
02:33As I mentioned earlier, today is 420, but since every day can be a high holiday,
02:39over at the bar we've got our two favorite gay Jewish stoners,
02:42if you don't count yours truly.
02:43It is the co-owners of Token Jew, Ben Kramer and Will Cohen.
02:49Kramer or Crane?
02:51Crane.
02:51Ben Crane.
02:52Great to see you guys.
02:54Thanks for bringing what you brought.
02:55For eight seasons, BJ served business casual elegance on The Office,
03:01but now that he's starring in one of the most iconic fashion movies of all time,
03:04we're going to get into the daring and trailblazing looks that BJ has brought to the red carpet
03:10with fashion or trash hunt.
03:13Okay?
03:13I'm going to do a deep dive into some of your wildly trend-setting looks in the past.
03:18Right.
03:18And everyone's favorite unlikely fashionista, BJ Novak, is going to say fashion for the looks
03:25that you love and say trash hunt for the ones that you hate.
03:32Okay?
03:33Okay, here we go.
03:34Here you are having some fun in the California sun back in 05.
03:38I mean, I look happy.
03:41You look adorable.
03:41Seems like you could still wear this today.
03:44I would call it, for me, fashion.
03:46Yes, absolutely.
03:47That is heteronormative fashion.
03:50Okay.
03:51Okay, giving casual chic at a city harvest.
03:53I mean, similar look.
03:55Adorable.
03:55T-shirt.
03:56Oh, my God.
03:56Are all of these going to be the same look?
03:58Yeah.
04:00Andy, spoiler alert.
04:01They're all going to be the same look.
04:02Okay, is this?
04:03And, I mean, I know it's not cool.
04:07It's adorable.
04:08Yes.
04:09Can I say it again?
04:09Fashion is me.
04:10Okay, very good.
04:11It's me.
04:11Here you are dressing up jeans in a tee.
04:13Oh, God.
04:14Oh, my God.
04:14Okay, this is.
04:15Okay, now you've got a slightly wrinkled blazer.
04:18No, this is raw.
04:19I will trash this one.
04:20Okay.
04:20Really?
04:21Interesting.
04:22Okay.
04:22Because, look, it's at a red carpet.
04:24Okay.
04:24Here he is sporting a windbreaker to a nylon event.
04:28Okay.
04:28Well, nylon and nylon, but I will trash on it.
04:32Oh, wow.
04:33That was a bit of a bore.
04:34Okay.
04:35Once again, stunning.
04:36Oh, like the others are so interesting.
04:38There was something adorable.
04:39A tee under a blazer.
04:40This is a look.
04:42It's worked in the past, and I think it's still.
04:44Is it working?
04:45Look, it's me.
04:47Very Miami Vice.
04:47I like it.
04:48Look, in honor, I'll let you choose.
04:50You're going to keep it for me?
04:51Keep it.
04:52That's what you need.
04:52Yes, fashion.
04:53Yes.
04:54Yeah.
04:54Okay, here you are keeping it casual for a 2010 movie premiere.
04:58This is the most wrinkled outfit that's ever been.
05:01What the happened?
05:02You're right.
05:04Clearly was on my floor.
05:06Andy, this is a real humiliation.
05:07Okay, let's trash this one, because he needed to.
05:10Okay, now here you are in khakis and sneakers.
05:13Oh, I saw you that night.
05:14I was with you.
05:15That was it.
05:16And you didn't say go home and change, so I'm going to keep it.
05:18Okay, keep it.
05:19Go home and change.
05:20Here you are back in 2010.
05:22Oh, okay.
05:23Okay, I dressed up.
05:24Yes.
05:25Yeah.
05:25Look, if we're grading me on a curve, this is the A+.
05:28I will keep it.
05:29Okay, keep it.
05:30Okay.
05:31Next up, daring three-piece suit for the...
05:34Oh.
05:34Okay.
05:35Well, now, BJ.
05:35I'm hearing some wows from the audience.
05:38And I don't think those are blown away wows.
05:42No, I think it's cute, Jim.
05:44It's not my favorite look.
05:45Yeah, okay.
05:46Something's wrong about it.
05:47Okay.
05:47There is something wrong.
05:48Okay, kill it.
05:49Yeah.
05:50Rocking a skinny tie with your tux at the Golden Globes.
05:53All right.
05:53I'll trash on.
05:54I don't know what I'm doing, Andy.
05:56Oh, I think it's...
05:57You're taking my car and parking it.
05:59Okay, thank you very much.
06:01Oh, my God.
06:02Andy, the crowd...
06:04You know what I love?
06:05You know, I love someone if I talk like that.
06:08No, not true.
06:09You know what I love?
06:10Jim Parsons doing...
06:12Playing the bitchy mother of Rose in this play
06:15has turned you into, like, a c*** on talk shows.
06:19It has released the inner...
06:19Which I love.
06:20I am, like, I am obsessed with this.
06:22I can't hide it anymore.
06:23You need to come every day
06:24and just, like, bitch people out.
06:26I love it.
06:27Much like that iceberg that took down the Titanic,
06:30Jim's interpretation of Rose's mean mommy,
06:34Ruth DeWitt-bacater...
06:36I think so.
06:36I don't have to say it.
06:37Thank God.
06:37...is extremely cold and quite lethal,
06:39so I know he'll be able to make some cutthroat decisions
06:41as we play Who Do You Adore More.
06:45Jim, pairs of iconic divas will be stranded
06:47on the frigid ocean,
06:48clinging to Rose's floating door from the Titanic.
06:52Because they should be.
06:53You have to choose which one you'd never let go of
06:55and which you're releasing into the icy waters
06:57of the northern Atlantic Ocean.
06:59Okay.
06:59Here we go.
07:00All right.
07:00Who Do You Adore More, Cher or Madonna?
07:03Oh, my God.
07:03That's f***ing hard.
07:04Wow.
07:05This is, like, a gay Sophie's Choice.
07:07See, it really is.
07:08Yes.
07:08Gay Sophie's Choice.
07:10Oh.
07:11You know, and I'll tell you why.
07:12I can't just say it.
07:13I'm going to send Cher to see.
07:15Okay.
07:16Because I just recently saw Madonna at that...
07:19Who was she at concert with?
07:20She was Sabrina Carpenter, Coachella.
07:22Adorable.
07:22I do, too.
07:23Okay.
07:23Okay, Who Do You Adore More, Judy or Liza?
07:27Oh, my God.
07:28Oh, my God.
07:31This is...
07:31Well, Liza's still here with us, thank God, to hear me,
07:35so she gets to stay.
07:36Okay.
07:37Who Do You Adore More, Beyoncé or Gaga?
07:41Odd.
07:42Well, I guess if you made it easy, it wouldn't be fun.
07:49I think Gaga can survive the cold,
07:51and I'm going to keep my fellow Houstonite on the door.
07:54Okay.
07:55Bye, Gaga.
07:56Who Do You Adore More, Diana Ross or Tina Turner?
07:59Wow.
08:00Oh, my gosh.
08:02Okay.
08:03In deference to the iceberg in Titanic,
08:06Tina gets to stay.
08:07I'm sorry.
08:08Okay.
08:09Last one.
08:10Who Do You Adore More, Aguilera or Britney?
08:14Do you know I don't know Aguilera?
08:17Christina Aguilera?
08:18Oh.
08:25It's a hard one, but Britney's been through enough.
08:29She can stay on the door.
08:30All right.
08:30Thank you very much.
08:32That was fun.
08:33That was fun.
08:35DJ starring opposite a famous Emily,
08:37but we're all about to face off with a sparky side character
08:40who's chronically blunt here to help us celebrate 420.
08:44It's the return of the Shady Joint.
08:46Oh, hey, Shady Joint.
08:48Whoa.
08:49How you doing, buddy?
08:50Oh, man.
08:51It's like my dream blunt rotation, man.
08:54Yeah.
08:54Me too.
08:56Well, this fatty has rolled in here with a ton of smoke for you two.
08:59What's your first shady question for the boys?
09:01All right, BJ.
09:02Uh-oh.
09:02How would you rate the Office spin-off The Paper on a scale from 1 to 10?
09:09Uh, after or before a joint?
09:11Ooh.
09:11Good question.
09:13Uh, it's its own thing.
09:15Right.
09:16So it's its own thing.
09:18Okay, it's its own thing.
09:19Next question for Jim.
09:20All right, Jim.
09:22What's the worst Celine Dion song of all time?
09:27Is there one in the catalog you're not a big fan of?
09:31I wouldn't say that.
09:33I mean, I can listen to all of them.
09:35I will say I heard my heart will go on enough that I don't have to hear it again.
09:40There you go.
09:40Understood.
09:41Okay, you got a question for both of the guys?
09:44I do.
09:45Without naming names, describe one instance where you feel a fellow celeb purposefully snubbed you.
09:53Oh, have you ever been snubbed by another celebrity?
09:56You don't have to name the person.
09:59Can I?
10:00Yeah.
10:01Oh, yeah.
10:02Yes.
10:03Um, I, like, when I first got to Hollywood, someone told me where the after party was going
10:09to be.
10:09He said he'd text me, and he didn't text me.
10:12And that's when I learned that was even a thing.
10:14Right.
10:14That you could say I'll text you and not text them.
10:16Right.
10:17I was like, he lied to me.
10:18Bonus points for the person.
10:20Yeah, he taught me a lesson.
10:21He did.
10:21Yeah, bonus points for the name of the person.
10:24Oh, his name?
10:25I think we're friends.
10:26His name is Jaron Lowenstein.
10:27Oh, okay.
10:28Yeah.
10:28All right.
10:29Anything?
10:30I think that, joint, that I'm too, I think I've been too socially anxious and shy to notice
10:38if I was.
10:39Yes.
10:39You know what I mean?
10:40Yes.
10:41So it could have happened many times.
10:42That's a superpower.
10:42Give me one more for Jim before we break.
10:45All right, Jim, what do you consider to be the most ridiculous Big Bang Theory storyline?
10:54What is the most ridiculous?
10:57Well, I don't, they were all rather silly, right?
11:01Yeah.
11:02I mean, we went to space.
11:03Uh-huh.
11:03Right.
11:05Okay, there you go.
11:06All right.
11:07Thanks, shady joint.
11:08Happy 420.
11:09I'm back with more of these guys who will be stopping by later this week.
11:14Don't go anywhere.
11:20Don't go anywhere.
11:30Sorry it took me a while to stop by or call you back.
11:35We barely noticed.
11:36But now I'm ready to get ducks in rows, kick some concepts around with you, check boxes,
11:42lunch?
11:43No.
11:44Bad time?
11:45You slammed?
11:46No, not at all.
11:47I'll just get someone to make a reservation.
11:50Oh, cafeteria's fine.
11:51I have a couple calls that I should return anyway.
11:54Um, I will see you there in 10.
12:01That's PJ Novak in The Devil Wears, brought it to you in theaters nationwide May 1st.
12:06Welcome back to Watch It Up.
12:07It's live.
12:08I'm Andy Cohen in the Bravo Club.
12:09I was also here with Jim Parsons from Titanic, now playing on Broadway.
12:12July 12th at the St. James Theater over at the bar.
12:16It's the co-owners of modern cannabis brand Token Jew, Ben Crame and Will Cohen.
12:22You can find their social products, accessories and more online.
12:25Drinking game reminder if you're 21 or over.
12:27Anytime you hear this word, drink it till the food you ate last night is all coming back
12:31to you now.
12:32You play who in the movie?
12:34I play, you know, it's funny.
12:36I, when I got cast in the movie, everyone said, oh my God, that's amazing.
12:39Are you the villain?
12:41And I was like, why did no one guess that I'm a fashion editor or a love interest or anything?
12:47Right.
12:47And I'm not saying I'm not the villain or the bad guy, but I play a new corporate bad
12:53guy in terms of telling Meryl's character, you know, the golden days are over.
12:59You're, in a very weird way, it could be what Ryan from The Office is doing today.
13:07It is a very Ryan, yeah.
13:08Yes.
13:08I mean, it's.
13:10There's a lot of Ryan energy.
13:11Like, your first scene, I was like, oh wait, I get why BJ was cast.
13:15Like, this is, yeah, let's take some fan questions.
13:19Michael from Austin is standing by with a question for BJ.
13:22Hey, man.
13:23Hi, how you doing?
13:24Great, how are you?
13:25I'm doing well.
13:26Thank you for having me.
13:27Thanks for coming.
13:28It's all, yeah, great to be here.
13:30Celebrating 420 today, man?
13:31I'm actually, I'm not, I know.
13:33I have an allergy thing.
13:35Oh, okay.
13:36Oh, good.
13:36Yeah, me too.
13:40What's your question, bro?
13:41Yeah, my question is, what was the weirdest thing about directing yourself in Vengeance?
13:47And was it ever hard to give yourself notes?
13:50Oh.
13:51Did you write Vengeance, too?
13:52I wrote and directed Vengeance.
13:53It is so good, you guys.
13:55You can stream it at home.
13:57It's a wonderful movie.
13:58BJ, you did such a good job with that.
14:00Thanks a lot.
14:00I hired an acting coach and teacher, Lee Kilton Smith, to be an executive producer on the movie.
14:07And that was my safe person, as they call it.
14:09And that was just the person I checked in every take after, and I didn't move on until I got
14:14her word that it was good to go.
14:16That's smart.
14:16Yeah, that is smart.
14:17Yeah.
14:18It's also humble.
14:20Yes, it is.
14:21Yes.
14:21Humble.
14:22Mm-hmm.
14:22All right, let's go to our virtual fans.
14:25Ellie and Hope from Kentucky, you have a question for Jimmy Parsons.
14:29Anyone ever call you Jimmy, Jim?
14:31Sometimes.
14:32Okay.
14:32When they want something.
14:34Oh.
14:35Hello.
14:36Hi, Andy.
14:38Hi, Andy.
14:39Hi, Cy.
14:39What the hell?
14:41Sorry.
14:43What's your question for Jim?
14:46Hi, Jim.
14:47My family named our 18-year-old dog Dr. Sheldon Cooper.
14:51We're big fans of the Big Bang Theory.
14:54Our question is, has Ariana Grande attended Titanic on Broadway yet to support her brother Frankie?
15:02And who has been your favorite celebrity in the audience so far?
15:05Oh, s***.
15:08Ari has not been there.
15:11My husband said that I must find out when she's coming and that whatever he's planning
15:16to do, he will cancel and show up.
15:18Okay.
15:19It's borderline creepy, so I'm not sure I'm going to tell him.
15:23And my favorite celebrity?
15:25Wait, I don't see very well into the audience, so I can't tell who's there.
15:30But Susan Sarandon was there for opening, which thrilled me in my heart.
15:34Has Celine seen it?
15:35Do we know?
15:36No.
15:37I know people in Celine's camp have seen it.
15:39Okay.
15:40And they're very in touch with Celine's camp.
15:42Like, yeah, it's a good relationship.
15:44So I really would, that would be a major moment.
15:48Yes.
15:48All right.
15:49Thank you, fans.
15:56Okay.
15:57BJ, by the way, Louis W. wants to know, which of the fast food chains at Chain Fest has been
16:03your absolute favorite to feature?
16:04I'm from New England, so Friendly's, that was a real close-to-my-heart one.
16:11Yes.
16:11Yeah.
16:12Very good.
16:12Great vibe.
16:13I guess projects involve a huge fashion magazine and the biggest ship to hit the bottom of
16:18the ocean, but these two actors are about to be dropped into our nation's smallest state
16:22as they reenact a Rhode Island brawl in Clubhouse Playhouse.
16:26Guys, take your places at the green screen and get into character.
16:29You will be acting out the dramatic Studio 54 party confrontation about, quote, the ongoing.
16:36BJ will be Kelsey.
16:38Jim will be Liz.
16:40Okay?
16:41Actors, you may begin.
16:43Are you enjoying yourself?
16:45I want to go down to the seawall with Gary and Dino.
16:48He's still like one of my best friends.
16:50I think because of the ongoing...
16:52Ongoing what?
16:55Rumors?
16:56Ongoing rumors?
16:57Bye-bye.
16:58F*** off.
16:59F*** off, Kelsey.
17:00Why are you mad?
17:01I wanted to be at the seawall with my husband and my best friend.
17:05You went, oh, I think not Dino because of the ongoing.
17:08I don't have an ongoing.
17:09It's all lies.
17:11Why are you mad at me?
17:12You got more to hide than I do.
17:14How about that?
17:15What am I hiding?
17:16You and I are two different people.
17:19Since when?
17:20Since you just said that down there.
17:22This is not what I wanted.
17:23I don't give a f*** anymore.
17:25Just f***ing fake as f*** you, Kelsey.
17:27Liz, you're not listening.
17:30Not my friend.
17:31Never been.
17:31F*** you.
17:32Go to bed.
17:33And scene!
17:35That was wonderful.
17:37Wow.
17:38What a happy...
17:39After the break, we have more with these two.
17:41And watch what happens five.
17:44Well done.
17:57Welcome back to Watch What Up and Drive.
18:00I am Andy here with BJ Jam and Ben and Will at the bar.
18:07I did really...
18:08I really appreciated your fine work in that.
18:11Thank you, Andy.
18:12Well done.
18:13No, no, you.
18:14Oh, for you.
18:15See, I would like to...
18:16We should...
18:17We're a good duo, I think.
18:18Yeah, I like to.
18:18I could have done what I did without your solid...
18:21Baseline.
18:22Yeah.
18:24Yes.
18:25Jim, Sandra Hendrick wants to know if there's a Big Bang reunion in the works.
18:29Not to my knowledge.
18:31Kind of feels like it just ended.
18:32They'd probably tell you.
18:33Yeah, I have a feeling they would.
18:36I feel that way.
18:37That it just ended...
18:38Right.
18:39Seven years.
18:40Seven years since it ended?
18:42Seven years, yeah.
18:43Wow.
18:43But I don't see any reason to do...
18:46I mean, I know some people might enjoy it, but I feel like we had such a good experience.
18:50It's like, let's not...
18:51Yeah.
18:51You know what I mean?
18:52Right, yes.
18:53It's like nothing against anybody or the thing itself.
18:55It's wonderful, but it was so wonderful.
18:57I'm like, let it be.
18:59It was an end to it.
19:00Yes.
19:00Margot C said, BJ, Inglourious Bastards is still one of my favorite films.
19:05Do you have a favorite memory from that movie?
19:08Yeah.
19:09I remember in the van, there was a van that picked up Christoph Waltz and me every morning
19:16to drive us to set for that final scene.
19:18And I'm just sitting there with this guy that I know as the Jew Hunter.
19:23Yes.
19:23You know, in the movie.
19:24And also, he wasn't famous then.
19:26So all I knew him as was the Jew Hunter.
19:28He was like, how's your morning?
19:30And I'm like, it's good.
19:32I try to make small talk with this guy who I only see as this evil villain.
19:36And then we got to set and Brad Pitt's like, hey guys, how's it going?
19:39You know?
19:39Wow.
19:40But those van rides is my favorite little memory.
19:43Jim Kimberly O wants to know if you saw your doppelganger contestant on Jeopardy! last year.
19:48No.
19:49You didn't hear about this?
19:50No.
19:50Oh, okay.
19:51Like, do we look alike?
19:52Apparently.
19:53Okay.
19:53Yeah.
19:53Okay.
19:54It's time for Watch What Happens 5.
19:57Most people would rather board the Titanic than face off against Miranda Priestly.
20:01But since BJ has played opposite one of the most intimidating and iconic characters in film history,
20:07he has agreed to count down the top five words to describe acting opposite Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly.
20:17Okay, BJ.
20:18Number five.
20:19Intimidating.
20:20Intimidating.
20:21Number four.
20:21Inspiring.
20:22Okay.
20:23Oh.
20:23Number three.
20:25Funny.
20:26Funny.
20:26Number two.
20:28Surreal.
20:30Surreal.
20:31Number one word to describe acting opposite Meryl as Miranda.
20:35Groundbreaking.
20:36Groundbreaking.
20:37Yeah.
20:38By the way, were you nervous that first day when you...
20:41I was extremely nervous, but I also knew that my job was to not be nervous and not enjoy the
20:47nervousness.
20:48Like, she deserves the best scene partner she can have.
20:50Right.
20:51So the best way to honor her is by forgetting how exciting it is for you and just, like,
20:57lock in so she can play her best game.
21:00There you go.
21:01Uh, thanks, BJ.
21:03That's all.
21:04I want to thank BJ, Jim, Ben, and Will for being here.
21:07The word of the night was how.
21:08We said it takes time to be able to play our drinking game, no driving.
21:11Tomorrow night, Kristen Cavallari is here with Jesse Solomon after Summer House.
21:16Watch our after show on Facebook Live now.
21:18Go see Titanic, the St. James Theatre.
21:21We'll see you later.
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