--- title: Jim Parsons SNL Monologue Mocks Sheldon Cooper, Classic TV Characters description: And Jason Alexander isn't George Costanza, either canonical: https://time.com/11758/jim-parsons-snl-monologue/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-02T16:08:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:25.455Z og:title: Jim Parsons SNL Monologue Mocks Sheldon Cooper, Classic TV Characters og:description: And Jason Alexander isn't George Costanza, either og:url: https://time.com/11758/jim-parsons-snl-monologue/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75ded6658384e6d6/698683a31eebf72da636f9cc/screen-shot-2014-03-02-at-10-19-23-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: screen-shot-2014-03-02-at-10-19-23-am og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jim Parsons SNL Monologue Mocks Sheldon Cooper, Classic TV Characters twitter:description: And Jason Alexander isn't George Costanza, either twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75ded6658384e6d6/698683a31eebf72da636f9cc/screen-shot-2014-03-02-at-10-19-23-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jim Parsons' SNL Monologue Reminds Us That He's Not Sheldon Cooper by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 2, 2014 4:08 PM UTC  Hulu by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 2, 2014 4:08 PM UTC The downside to starring in a wildly popular sitcom, we assume, is that people associate you with your character to the point that you just _become_ that character, forever, whether you like it or not. Just ask George Costanza. Er, we mean Jason Alexander. In his _Saturday Night Live_ monologue this week, Jim Parsons—star of CBS’s _The Big Bang Theory—_addressed the issue of typecasting, assuring the audience that he’s nothing like Sheldon Cooper, the brainiac he portrays on the hit show. “I am not like Sheldon. I am not a scientist. I don’t speak Klingon. I do have a male roommate,” the openly gay actor said, “but I assure you it’s a vastly different arrangement.” Parsons then breaks out into a song called “I’m Not That Guy,” recruiting _SNL_ cast members to join him onstage to portray fellow sitcom stars who’ve suffered the same problem. The best part of the entire sketch probably comes when we see Taran Killam’s excellent interpretation of the Fonz. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/11758/jim-parsons-snl-monologue/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/11758/jim-parsons-snl-monologue/"},"headline":"Jim Parsons' SNL Monologue Reminds Us That He's Not Sheldon Cooper","datePublished":"2014-03-02T16:08:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:25.455Z","description":"And Jason Alexander isn't George Costanza, either","url":"https://time.com/11758/jim-parsons-snl-monologue/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","NBC","SNL","Saturday Night Live"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75ded6658384e6d6/698683a31eebf72da636f9cc/screen-shot-2014-03-02-at-10-19-23-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75ded6658384e6d6/698683a31eebf72da636f9cc/screen-shot-2014-03-02-at-10-19-23-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"screen-shot-2014-03-02-at-10-19-23-am","caption":"","creditText":"Hulu","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/11758/jim-parsons-snl-monologue/","name":"Jim Parsons' SNL Monologue Reminds Us That He's Not Sheldon Cooper"}}]}] ```