(crowd cheering)
Thanks for being here, Patrick.
It's always my interest.
Yeah, you're always about.
When you do it yourself, there's a problem.
(crowd laughing)
(Conan cheering)
Patrick, stop that.
(crowd laughing)
It was funny.
We're gonna get to what you've,
you've accomplished so many things already in show business.
Clearly, for all these awards and these, these,
these different projects that you've worked on.
But I'm reading up on you today
and there was just something that struck my imagination.
It's just you come from a family of anchorman.
I do from the Legend of Ron Burgundy people.
Yeah, exactly.
That's right. And you actually, your dad.
Dad, brother, yes.
Your dad, John Wilson, is an anchorman.
John Wilson, he's an anchorman.
And then your, your brother went into it as well.
On the same station, believe it or not.
It's so funny because it's, you know,
it's not something you think of as being like,
that's the family business.
I know. I know. Anchorman!
I know, but you know, it's kind of funny.
They, my brother always just wanted to do it.
So I, I loved watching them on TV,
but that was certainly nothing that I wanted to do.
We actually, and you know,
we have pictures of them.
They really look like anchorman.
Look at that, these guys.
Your dad and your brother really looked like anchorman.
One, it's the hair, really.
We actually wanted to see what it would look like
if you were also decided to go into the business,
became an anchorman.
(crowd laughing)
(crowd cheering)
[Patrick] That is hot.
[Conan] Yeah.
That is really terrible.
But it's so funny.
What's it like around the dinner table?
It must be a strange experience with different anchorman.
And everyone has low voices
and everyone kind of leans in when they talk to you.
"How was your day to day, son?"
"It was fine, dad."
"Great. Good to see you."
You know? Yeah.
That was my existence.
These glazed carrots are delicious.
Now, back to you.
(crowd laughing)
And they are.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, it just seems like a very strange, strange thing,
but everybody, everybody gets along.
Did you think about, "I wanna be an anchor?"
You know, I did.
I mean, it was one of those things where, you know,
my dad's always say kind of enough in the business
to love it and know about it,
but not enough to understand
at least this side of it, you know?
It was something always growing up.
You know, my dad,
every time we were out, without fail,
somebody would come up and, "Hey, John, good to see."
Cause you know, the local newsman,
everybody feels like they know them.
So, it was always.
"John, good to see you."
"Hey, how's the weather gonna be on Friday?
Gonna go play golf," and this and that, and they'd leave.
And I'd say, "Dad, who's that?"
And he'd go, "I have no idea."
I have no idea, I despise that man.
I hope he dies soon.
(crowd laughing)
Anything he says in that voice would be really great.
I'm grounding you, you sickened me.
(crowd laughing)
I found pot in your room.
Now, it's, now it's gone terrible.
(Conan laughing)
You know, I always ruin things.
Now, let's talk about something pleasant.
Okay.
Angels in America, people loved it.
Absolutely loved it.
And you is great as an opportunity that was for you,
you got to work with Al Pacino, a legend.
I know. I know.
What's Al Pacino like?
He's a good softball player.
Really? No, he's,
well, he actually is. It's very funny.
We, one time I was,
I was going to do an interview, actually,
and, and some, the guy doing the interview on me
saw him before he was gonna interview me
and said, "Al, I'm gonna interview Patrick Wilson.
Can I get a few words?"
And he said, "Yeah, he's a great softball player."
And which is not really very funny,
thanks for the reaction.
(crowd laughing)
There you are! Yeah!
You said it's, yeah.
You saved me.
We can always add that in editing later.
(Conan laughing)
Wait, that's illegal.
No, it's awful.
No, he's awesome.
He's such an unbelievable actor, but.
Is he good? Is he, can he play?
Is he good? Is he intense when he?
'Cause he's so intense as an actor,
is he intense off of work?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
One, we can, we were,
I was fortunate to go up to his house and play softball,
and he's very, very, very competitive, right?
Right, right.
So, he gets a double, he's on second.
And my buddy Fred is a, is playing shortstop.
And Fred says, "You know, Al, you're the go-ahead run?"
And he goes, "Oh, I know, baby. I know."
So, sure enough, the next guy have hits a line drive out
into out of the outfield.
He runs rounding third and he is cooking, and he's.
He's taken off and he kinda,
I think his knee kinda buckles and he got,
it was not funny at all.
Right.
A crippling injury that may end his career.
It's Al Pacino.
And he goes in the home plate and actually ends up falling
over home plate into his backstop.
And which again, not funny.
No, that's actually pretty funny now.
He had this net and he has this
like full on backstop at his place,
but he ends up like tumbling off.
"Oh, God! Oh, God! God. Oh, can you help me?"
And I went over there and I pulled him out of the wreckage.
People thought I'd kill Scarface, but.
Right, right. Which you'd be blamed for.
Which I would and I think I am.
Okay. So, I wanna ask you about,
you know, you did the Full Monty.
I did. Which is a play with,
you know, stripping.
It's not the Half Monty.
And yeah.
That's your problem.
(crowd laughing)
You do this show, The Full Monty,
and there's nudity at the end of the show.
You all have to be naked at one point.
And I thought, "Okay, there's a lot of things
that I'd be willing to do in show business."
Clearly, I have very low standards,
but I wouldn't be nude in front of a lot of people.
Well the thing is, the way the show was,
and we did it for over a year,
but the way the show, it was lit from behind.
So, really all you saw was shadows,
some longer than others.
(crowd laughing)
Hey, I got them. Would you look at me. No!
Bad. That's just, yeah. Yeah.
I'm sorry. But.
One night, one night the lights completely screwed up
and they had doubled up and gone to the curtain call lights,
which of course are the brightest lights on stage.
It was absolutely awful.
And we knew it as the song was going on and we're going,
"Oh, God." You know, we're trying to sing our song.
So, it's supposed to be in this
sort of artistic half light,
but suddenly, you're in a full like penile exam light.
Yes. Yes.
Which is a good light.
People in the back row were like,
"Get that mole check!"
(crowd laughing)
Terrible. And by that point,
by that point, we had been,
we had been running for a while.
So, people knew, like, you know,
it's safe to bring people who wouldn't usually go nude
and that whole thing.
And suddenly that night, you know,
and we were like, "Whoa, we gotta do it. We're here."
So, the lights certainly are up and we kind of,
we do it and it was terrible.
And of course, all the people were laughing and giggling,
saying, "Don't worry, honey. You won't see much."
And then all of a sudden, nudity
and they're all just, "Oh."
Right. Right.
You know?
It was, it was not good.
And as we learned earlier, it helps with the songwriting.
So, you should (indistinct).
Wonderful song, by the way.
I really enjoyed it.
We worked very well together.
We're cutting an album soon,
it will ruin John's career.
(crowd laughing)
We have a clip here from this Phantom of the Opera.
And what do we need to know?
Yes. What do we need to know for this clip?
Well, it's a big, splashy musical.
I don't know.
I actually don't even know the clip.
That's how prepared I am.
I don't know which clip you're saying,
I hope it's from the movie.
Okay. Well, let's.
What if it just wasn't from the movie?
(Patrick laughing)
Let's just start doing that.
Let's take a look at this clip
from The Phantom of the Opera.
Ralph! Whatever you believe,
this man, this thing is not your father.
(man grunts)
(thrilling music)
(swords clanking)
I've always wanted to do one of those scene.
(crowd cheering)
That's the scene I'd like to do.
The Phantom of the Opera in select cities
opens nationwide January 21st.
Patrick Wilson, thanks so much for doing it.
Oh, thank you. My pleasure.
We'll be right back with Twista and Faith Evans.
Stick around.