--- title: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Mean Tweet on Jimmy Kimmel description: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kristen Bell, Jeff Bridges read mean tweets on Jimmy Kimmel Live canonical: https://time.com/4044303/benedict-cumberbatch-mean-tweets-jimmy-kimmel/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-22T15:30:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:58.772Z og:title: See How Benedict Cumberbatch Responded to a Mean Tweet About His Face og:description: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kristen Bell, Jeff Bridges read mean tweets on Jimmy Kimmel Live og:url: https://time.com/4044303/benedict-cumberbatch-mean-tweets-jimmy-kimmel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See How Benedict Cumberbatch Responded to a Mean Tweet About His Face twitter:description: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kristen Bell, Jeff Bridges read mean tweets on Jimmy Kimmel Live twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Benedict Cumberbatch Nailed the Response to a Mean Tweet About His Face  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 22, 2015 3:30 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 22, 2015 3:30 PM UTC On Monday night, Jimmy Kimmel announced that a different celebrity will appear on the show every day this week to do a dramatic reading of mean tweets directed at them. It’s a twist on his [popular](http://time.com/3910534/nba-mean-tweets-kimmel/) [sketch](http://time.com/3759729/john-boehner-nancy-pelosi-mean-tweets/) [series](http://time.com/3693328/drake-katy-perry-lady-gaga-mean-tweets-jimmy-kimmel/), with soft music playing in the background as if the celebrities were on stage at an open mic night. After Cumberbatch read aloud a message that said people who find him attractive must also like staring at a “cats anus” (without the apostrophe “s”), he replied, “Well someone did \[find him attractive\], and she put a ring on it,” holding up his ring finger. _Read next:_ [_Watch President Obama Read Mean Tweets About Himself on Jimmy Kimmel_](http://time.com/3743758/obama-mean-tweets-jimmy-kimmel/) ### Biopic Actors and Their Real-Life Counterparts  Meryl Streep plays Emmeline Pankhurst in Suffragette Focus; Topical Press Agency/Getty Images  Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs in Steve Jobs Universal; Bob Riha Jr—Getty Images  Ellen Page plays Stacie Andree in Freeheld Lionsgate; Tom Spader—AP  Joseph Gordon Levitt plays Philippe Petit in The Walk Sony Pictures; Dave Pickoff—AP  Johnny Depp plays James 'Whitey' Bulger in Black Mass Warner Brothers; AP  André Benjamin plays Jimi Hendrix in All Is By My Side Patrick Redmond—XLrator Media; Photoshot/Getty Images  Adrien Brody plays Harry Houdini in Houdini. 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