Martin Freeman at the Late Night show with Stephen Colbert

johnlockhell221b:

geek-royalty:

heurtebizzz:

Disclaimer: the show will air tomorrow night so I apologise for the spoilers (but you’d like me to tell you everything, wouldn’t you?)

First of, as Stephen introduced Martin, they showed a very short, no more than 30 seconds, clip from Sherlock (I think from TST): Lestrade, John and Sherlock at Baker Street, trotting down the stairs, Lestrade and John having a conversation about John’s baby and Sherlock thinking it’s about him (something about screaming babies and how John has to clean the mess after them and they never say thank you, Sherlock keeps interjecting, ‘Are you talking about me? I don’t understand’). John looked great, with new hair and a tight shirt on, slim and sexy

Now, how the whole thing went:

Martin looked gorgeous, Stephen complimented him on his suit

Compliments quickly turned into very homoerotic jokes about Stephen ‘piping’ Martin. Martin was super comfortable with all that.

Martin’s great performance in Love Actually. Pretty much them talking about Martin’s junk. Stephen: will there be a sequel?

Discussion of class differences in who says ‘merry Christmas’ and who ‘happy Christmas’ in the UK. Stephen: we don’t get to say ‘merry’ about anything else than Christmas. Martin: do you say ‘merry mead’?

A bit on The Hobbit and how Stephen loves it, but his favourite role of Martin’s is John Watson

Martin: this series is the best, the strongest ever, if we haven’t messed them up

‘We never know if we are going to do it again’ (when asked if it’s the last series)

Stephen: are you not jelous that Ben plays someone who is so much smarter? And gets cast to play roles like that? Wouldn’t you like to play a genius?

Martin: John Watson is not dumb, exactly. Sherlock has a magnificent intellect but John is someone who humanises him, guiding him by hand (?) and showing how humans work, telling him 'we’ve got to pay the rent’ or that he’s upset someone (does it mean they are living together again?)

Stephen moves onto a distasteful bit about fanart and Martin’s fans who have a wild erotic imagination. Martin, to his honour, handled it all gracefully and even said he’d participated in some of the fan works (yes he really said that). Stephen: is that the Love Actually sequel? Next, he showed a picture of a tame johnlock fanart, Sherlock and John barechested, I couldn’t recognize it, Martin was totally cool about it all and Stephen said he’d love someone to draw his body like that. Martin said he’d seen more serious staff and that Ian McKellen told him about the erotic fan works when they were in New Zealand, filming The Hobbit, and even sent him an email about it. Well, I’m sorry in advance for the fanartist whose work they showed and for all fans getting dragged like that, again.

Stephen talks about the show getting criticism for suggesting that the royal family was being blackmailed by the dominatrix and whether Martin, as subject, cared. Martin: the obvious answer is that I don’t care. And you guys will be in a much worse place, come January.

That’s about it. I hope CBS doesn’t come after me for posting this.

Thanks for the preview!

*Cringes at the fanart thing*

thanks for the preview!!! I’m sure he looked gorgeous!!!