The closest we will ever come to Morgan Freeman narrating a Fifty Shades of Grey novel

As majestic and worldly as it might be, Morgan Freeman is never going to recite the text of E.L. James' fanfic-turned-housewife titillator Fifty Shades of Grey in front of people. However, some people can pretend to be Morgan Freeman to show us just how dramatically spanktastic this might be. Actor, comedian, and voice artist Josh Robert Thompson does a wicked Freeman impression (on par with Tom Kane, who does a similarly spot-on impersonation for Robot Chicken -- and Morgan Freeman himself), and has done the world a great service by reading an excerpt, as the Great Narrator, from the second book in the series, Fifty Shades Darker. So now Morgan Freeman doesn't have to!

But hey, where do I start the social media campaign to hold a Fake Morgan Freeman Narrate-Off between Thompson and Kane, refereed by Freeman? Can we make this happen?

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This is nearly perfect. It very occasionally goes ‘Cleveland”
Bookburn

It would be a shame not to include Jim Meskimen in your Morgan Freeman throw-down.
http://twitter.com/zaren Jim Schmidt

Better than the Gilbert Gottfreid reading, even though Gilbert actually read it!
welcomeabored

Imagine it . . . a show of Morgan Freeman impersonators lined up behind podiums, like in ’The Vagina Monologues’. . . or the Republican debates (erp!), taking turns reading from ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’.

When can I buy a ticket? I don’t care where.
kingluma

maybe the real Morgan Freeman would do it ? someone recently spotted him here in the audience of a Bobby Rush booty shaking contest just after the 30:40 mark ;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&list=PLE76DC09AA43E0850&v=8cqDm9rKT-8#t=1818s
ComradeQuestions

Honey-baked.
sillyrabbi

No titty sprinkles? pfft…
http://www.facebook.com/fritterfae Eric Riley

I love that so many of these faux-readings are coming from men, but seriously, can’t we get some awesome ladies reading this? I mean, the central narrator is a woman. Kathleen Turner? Judy Tenuta? Dr. Ruth?
- disillusion
  
  I believe that’s the point. It just makes it sound that much worse when it’s not only a famous person narrating it, but also narrating it as the opposite gender of who is supposed to be narrating.
siloxane

Josh Robert Thompson also voices Geoff Peterson, the robot skeleton sidekick on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, where he busts out the Morgan Freeman impression on a quite regular basis.
- marilove
  
  He is so awesome, I swear.
bcsizemo

The best part of this isn’t the fact Morgan Freeman is reading 50 Shades, it’s his internal/external monologue with the himself/audience. It’s pure comedy gold.
Shad Bolling

The video link is removed, unfortunately…
habbi1974

dagh. I’m also too late.
mkanoap

This one still works. http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6821188/morgan-freeman-narrates-50-shades-of-grey
marilove

eta helps to read the comments first lol. i got all excited.