How you doing, Michael?
Good, I'm good. How are you doing?
Thanks for being here.
Thank you for having me.
You got a lot of fans here, people are excited to see you.
Thank you. Yeah.
(audience applauds)
(Michael laughs)
To see you and me now.
Now, it's funny,
last time you were on the show, we were talking,
and you were just about, you were promoting "Superbad".
Right, yeah.
And you were telling me
that you were just about to go to Europe.
Yeah, we were.
And you were excited, because you know,
you were curious to see how "Superbad" would be received...
Yeah.
Over in Europe.
And I'm just... I never heard what happened.
Not well, not well.
(audience laughs)
[Conan] What do you mean?
I mean, I guess, I think it did okay,
but when we were there, especially in Italy,
it just felt like, people did not like the movie.
[Conan] They didn't like it in Italy?
Well, I mean, it's hard for them to relate, I think,
because you know, it's so much about getting alcohol
and like this quest for alcohol, which they,
I mean, they drink when they're like five.
(Conan and audience laughing)
What's the big deal?
Yeah.
(Michael and audience laugh)
That's my sensitive portrayal.
(Michael and audience laughs)
Of an Italian man.
I'm half Italian, my father is from Italy.
Not that I'm offended, but...
Yeah.
(audience laughs)
I sure hope not. (audience laughs)
I'm making you a pizza pie, Michael.
That is how he talks, he says that to me.
He does talk like that.
[Conan] Did that come up at all,
when you were doing the promotion in Italy, did it come up?
Somewhat, yeah.
All I know how to say in Italian is
my father comes from Sicily,
which is, "Mio papa viene dalla Sicilia".
And... (audience applauds)
During the Q and A,
that would get us out of a slump, somewhat.
Like I would say that and they would kind of go, "Oh, yeah".
But it only worked like, I tried it like five times.
(Conan laughs)
It was like an hour long Q and A
and it was going really poorly.
At a certain point,
they probably think something's wrong with you,
if you keep saying, "My father is from Sicily".
(Michael and audience laugh)
You've told us that.
You wanted the pizza pie now? Did you grow a mustache?
[Conan] I grew a mustache.
Isn't that french?
I don't know, leave me alone.
(Michael and audience laugh)
I've got wafer-thin talent and an hour to kill.
Now, last time you were here,
you were telling us that you had this weird experience,
you thought that your hotel room was haunted?
Yeah, I was in San Diego
and my speakerphone kept turning itself on.
Like, it happened a few times
and the night that I was on the show, here.
[Conan] Talking about it.
And told that story, I went back to my hotel
and this is true, the same thing happened to me,
like seven times in a row.
The speaker phone just comes on by itself?
Yeah, in New York.
And I called the front desk and said,
"Does this ever happen? Do people ever say
that the speakerphone turns itself on?"
And the woman's exact words were, "No, never".
(audience laughs)
Well, so, so you think that means there's a ghost?
I don't know what it means, but I...
It's so weird.
I don't want it to happen again.
(Conan and audience laughs)
It's not like something that makes me feel good.
I mean, it's terrifying. (Michael and audience laugh)
I wouldn't think it would make you feel good.
Do you think it was the same ghost from San Diego
that came to New York?
I don't know.
To see the big city. (Michael and audience laughs)
I didn't think of that.
(Conan laughs)
Airfare's so expensive now.
(audience laughs)
That makes it a little, less scary.
Now, has your life, would you say your life
has changed a lot since "Superbad" came out?
Somewhat, I mean, yeah in subtle ways.
[Conan] You know, because the movie
was such a big success.
People really liked that film.
And so, your audience from "Arrested Development"
grew now more and more people must know who you are.
Is that a good thing?
Yeah, well the first night,
I mean, the weekend it came out,
I went to a bar where I live, in Toronto
and it was very strange.
Like people, you know, coming up
and people are very aggressive when they're drunk,
as you might know.
And actually I... This happened to me,
a few months before the movie,
I almost got beaten up by a guy, for no reason.
I know that sounds like, you know,
just my side of the story, but it's true.
(audience laughs)
I was minding my own business.
You're not, you don't seem like a guy
that would be in a bar like, "I'll fight anyone".
No, no. (Michael and audience laugh)
Who wants a piece of Michael Cera?
That's not how you come across.
That's not what I say, no.
No, he just came up, he didn't know me.
I think he thought I was someone else
and he wanted to fight me.
And then, that was in June
and "Superbad" came out in August.
The weekend it came out, I was in a bar
and I saw that same guy and he was sober
and I'd only ever met him once before,
when he was trying to beat me up.
And he came up to me and he was like,
"Hey Michael, hey. I didn't even realize you were an actor".
You know, he was talking to me
and he was like, "So, do you go to Los Angeles a lot?"
And I'm like, "Yeah, once in a while for work",
he goes, "I'd love to go with you some time".
[Conan] What? (audience laughs)
This is the second time I've met him
and he wants to go on a trip with me now.
(Conan and audience laugh)
The only other time, was when he was trying to beat me up.
So, are you seeing any more of this person?
Yeah, he's my roommate now, we live together.
(Conan and audience laugh)
In Los Angeles. (Conan laughs)
He's a sweet guy.
Now, you started acting, I mean, you're young now,
but you started acting when you were really young.
Yeah, when I was about nine,
for more than half of my life now, I guess.
Right? Yeah.
That's, that's a...
Do the math. (audience laughs)
You challenged the crowd.
(Michael and audience laugh)
Do the math.
Then fight me.
What I said was true.
What you, you work in...
Like, do you ever, you worked on a sitcom?
Oh yeah.
I did, the first kind of big job
I have had was on a sitcom
that was taped in front of an audience and it never aired,
but we did eight episodes.
You made eight and they never showed any of it?
No, yeah, we got canceled, but it was funny.
Randy Quaid played my father.
He's a cool actor.
Yeah, it kind of scared me from, you know, audiences.
I mean, it's terrifying doing that in front of an audience,
you know, a sitcom, because anything can happen.
One episode we were taping.
I had like an older brother on the show
that was this handsome actor, Brian sites, he's handsome.
(audience laughs)
And he was 19, I was about 13 at the time
and we're doing an episode, I'm talking to Randy Quaid,
who's my father about girl troubles.
And I'm like, "You know, what do I do?"
And he goes, "You know, some people just have the gift.
Your brother has the gift".
And I go, "Why, he's not better looking than me?"
and Randy Quaid's line is, "Oh, you don't think so?"
Then he rolls his eyes like that.
[Conan] Right.
And while we were taping, I go,
"well, why, he's not better looking than me?"
and this girl in the audience goes, "Yeah, he is".
(audience laughs)
That's not nice.
Yeah, I mean.
I hate it when that happens.
The mentality of that, like,
"Okay, I know this is not a real show,
but I can't go on with this anymore".
[Conan] I can't sit still for this.
I can't let them say that.
Yeah.
That's definitely not true.
Well, let's talk about this,
(Michael laughs)
"Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist".
Right.
And this is a good character for you.
You've you've gone through this painful breakup,
with a girl. Yeah, right.
Yeah, it all takes place in one day
and I've just had my heart broken by a girl.
And well, I don't want to give away too much,
what's the clip we're going to show?
This is me being attacked by Kat Dennings,
who plays Norah in the movie
and we're just getting to know each other, in this night.
And we're having, you know,
there's some friction and tension
and we end up getting in a fight.
Let's take a look at this clip from
"Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist".
Can I just ask, what did you see in her?
I could floss with that girl.
This is your friend that we're talking about.
Okay. Forget it, I can't do this.
Do what?
Just make a U-turn and take me back to leather, all right?
I'll find my own way.
Perfect.
I refuse to be the goody bag at your pity party, Nick.
You don't have to yell, it's not a train station.
We're in a tiny car.
Just drop me off.
I will.
(car screeches) (upbeat music)
Are you crazy?
I don't know what I did to you to make you so angry.
Nothing, you're just, you're ridiculous.
You don't even know me.
I know you, I know your make.
My make?
You're an emo, punk band boy
and you're obsessed with Tris.
They can make action figures out of you,
drummer not included.
You know, its funny that Tris never mentioned you,
considering what good friends you are.
But she did mention something that was completely jealous.
Oh, jealous? Yeah.
And so now, I think I know exactly who she...
All right, sweetheart you think you have something?
(thump) (Michael groans)
I am not jealous.
(Michael groans)
No man, she's not jealous.
(audience and Conan laugh)
That's the lowest. (audience applauds)
The throat punch.
Yeah.
And you're driving the worst car, in the world.
What is that?
That's a Yugo. That's a Yugo.
Yeah, they had three of them in pink and yellow.
You are driving the crappiest car in that movie.
"Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist",
check it out, it opens on Friday.
Thanks a lot.
Michael, please come back a lot.
Absolutely.
You're always fun to talk to, Michael Cera.
(audience applauds)
We'll be right back with comedian,
Nate Bargatze, stick around. (audience applauds)