James McAvoy is a fine performer, with credits that include a Golden Globe-nominated performance in Atonement, the excellent series Shameless, the world’s most lovable bald telepath Dr. Xavier in the X-Men franchise, and the upcoming Charlize Theron badass action flick Atomic Blonde.
But on a recent Late Show appearance, Stephen Colbert had more on his mind than McAvoy’s acting chops. Or shall we say, much less on his mind.
Coming back from a commercial break, Colbert unleashed the big question: “Does the carpet match the lack of drapes?”
Then McAvoy, triggered by the image of overzealous manscaping, tells tale of that one time he did attempt to shave everything. Then the story takes a strange turn, as his kindly grandparents were worried he’d been cutting himself.
“I was shaving my balls!” he finally yelled to them. Or at least that’s what we think he yelled — CBS bleeps out “balls.” Wait, you can’t say “balls” on TV?
Watch below:
crowebobby
Amazing what hair and role playing can do. When I think of how sexy he was (to me) in his first appearances on Shameless compared to here. Still charming as hell and not exactly ugly, but certainly not someone I’d look twice at. The hair difference applies to Harry Styles, though I’d crawl over broken glass to get to him . . . hair or no.
Kieran
He looks so much hotter than those insecure idiots from the “Hair Club for Men”. Crew cuts on a cute guy are always sexy. If a mop of hair is all takes, Tiny Tim would have been a sex symbol.
keithclardyisawesome
Not to be that nerd, but it’s “Professor Xavier”…not “Dr. Xavier.”
MikeE
I’ve wondered about that… doesn’t he have a doctorate? Wouldn’t that mean he could be called “Dr”? I know the character is “professor”, it’s just my mind wandering to pointless minutiae as I procrastinate and attempt to avoid returning to my work.
ColorMeColorado
Yes! Good correction
ProfessorMoriarty
Queerty, I cannot stress strongly enough how badly your Waywire video content system sucks, especially on iOS. Videos won’t play half the time, and when they do, there’s no option to go full screen, playback stutters horribly, and scrubbing the video back and forth almost never works.
I know you need to pay the bills with the preroll ads, but this isn’t the way to do it, especially since you’re ALSO displaying a pop-over page ad when the page loads! Please, I am begging you: fix your G-D video content delivery system.
silveroracle
Agreed. I can’t play them at all on my iPad!
youarebetterthanthat
When is Queerty going to enforce the Queerty Comment Policy? In this thread alone you have @ColorMeColorado personally attacking @crowebobby repeatedly, but Queerty just lets it all slide. This is why the community here is so toxic. A good community requires good moderation and enforcement of the rules of behavior.
DCguy
U.S. TV is so bizarre. They will show multiple murders and people being decapitated, but will throw up a black bar if somebody flashes a little side-boob and bleep out the word “Balls”.
Ridiculous.