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Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons Was This Close to Starring in Another Massive Sitcom Instead · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, Jim Parsons gave life
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Speaker 1: to one of the most iconic sitcom characters of the
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Speaker 1: twenty one century, Big Bang Theories, Sheldon Cooper. Though it
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Speaker 1: turns out, if fate had dealt him a different hand,
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Speaker 1: he might have starred on one of the other most
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Speaker 1: popular sitcoms of this era, The Office. Jim revealed he
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Speaker 1: auditioned for the pilot of the hit NBC show back
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and four before he booked Big Bank Theory,
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Speaker 1: but didn't specify which character, and he actually thought it
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Speaker 1: was a massive waste of time, he admits, I remember thinking,
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Speaker 1: how stupid it's about an office. If America wanted their
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Speaker 1: own office show, they would have already made it by now.
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Speaker 1: In a twist of fate, Jim's new project with his
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Speaker 1: Big Bank co star Mimbiolic, Call Me Cat, is actually
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Speaker 1: based on another hit British sitcom called Miranda. Called Me
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Speaker 1: Cat debuts on Fox in January. That's Direct from Hollywood.