Jim Parsons to voice NBC’s stop-motion Elf special

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Despite the fact that Will Ferrell is alive and able to speak, Jim Parsons will be voicing Buddy in NBC’s animated special, Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Big Bang Theory star will take on the lead role in a “retelling” of Ferrell’s 2003 holiday comedy, in which Buddy the Elf travels to New York City to meet the human father he didn’t know he had. In other words, it’s an Elf revamp the world didn’t know it needed and, arguably, doesn’t. That’s the spirit of Christmas.