Watch Benedict Cumberbatch turn a game of Mad Libs into high theater
Mad Libs is always entertaining, and becomes even more enjoyable with a proper player like Benedict Cumberbatch, whose idea of a good exclamation is "flibbitty gibbitt!"
On Thursday's Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon compiled all of Cumberbatch's adjectives, plural nouns, and places for a game of Mad Lib Theater. The act involved Cumberbatch morphing into nursery rhyme-singing NYPD Detective Rory, who faced off against Fallon's Ukrainian criminal, Mrs. Tate (that's what happens when you write your script using Mad Libs). The pair have a hard time keeping it together, but with Cumberbatch spouting lines like "the crime scene has your butt written all over it" in a bizarre accent, it's understandable. Watch the video below. Catherine Garcia
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