beyonce was a dream she was the
loveliest person
in the world and just knocked it out of
the park she would always listen to
music and she said to me mike what are
you listening to right now and i said oh
i'm just
listening to led zeppelin at the moment
and she went
i think i'll listen to that led zeppelin
she had never heard of it she was so
young and the whole crew was like oh
and then the next day she was doing this
and i said what are you listening to she
went led zeppelin they're great i'm mike
myers and i'm going to revisit some of
my scenes from throughout my career all
right
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okay i still live with my parents which
i admit is both bogus and sad
but at least i've gotten amazing you
know canadians have this rise at the end
so every statement sounds like a
question so even if it's snowing
obviously they'll go it's snowing i've
got an amazing cable access show i still
know how to party and it's kind of like
it's called linguistically it's called
the canadian rise which is i'm going to
talk i'm going to talk then it goes down
and that means it's your turn to talk so
it's like the other day a guy came up to
me and he was really mad
now it's your turn to talk because i
went down and that's the accent for
wayne but i put it in chicago because
there's an aurora in chicago and there's
an aurora just north of toronto
ah the mirth
mobile you had no money so i thought the
most that they could get is an amc pacer
and then they would put flames decals or
flames coming out of the wheel well i
see a little silhouette
what i remember most about this was uh
fighting very very hard for it to be
bohemian rhapsody and uh they didn't
want to do it they wanted to do guns and
roses which i love guns and roses but i
didn't have anything funny for it and
then lauren was like you really want it
i went yeah so lauren fought for it on
my behalf lorne michaels
and uh dana and i talked about five days
ago about our next still hurt from bub
that was easily 200 takes
over two nights in uh
oh some town i want to say el segundo
or cerritos outside of los angeles but
um i just couldn't believe i was in a
movie
it will be mine
oh yes
it will be mine
what was so much fun about this scene
was the director penelope spherus who i
fought very hard
to be the director even though she
didn't have any comedy credits she had
done the decline of the western
civilization
a documentary about heavy metal that was
so incredibly awesome and authentic i
knew that she would get the heavy metal
part of it and she knocked it out of the
park
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oh control baby i think you can't resist
me
[Applause]
i'd always liked the divinels i just
couldn't believe there was a song called
i touch myself which just to be honest
i still slightly i may be blushing
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there's something about
sexuality
that is
corny people get very very serious about
their sexiness and to me it always makes
me laugh because it's
it's almost too arch you know what i
mean so
overt sexuality
makes me laugh and
especially like really contrived dirty
jokes make me laugh the fembots is
something it's a little bit from six
million dollar man
and it's uh it's a little bit from one
of the matt helm movies but i needed
somehow to show that he has mojo
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the reveal of the
chest hair was just
when i was a kid marveling at sean
connery
being part man part beast a crazy amount
of chest hair he had
a pelt if you will
more than chest hair that scene was
choreographed by a fantastic
choreographer marguerite derrick
who did all of the choreography for all
the austin powers films an absolute
genius because what she would do is go
what do you got i took jazz dancing and
tap as a child in toronto i would show
her my moves very very influenced by
fosse
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i had a fantastic prop man named eugene
mccarthy and every prop that i had
eugene mccarthy made it
funnier more user-friendly just better
than anything i could have imagined so
these are you know one of the first
movies i was doing and i was very very
spoiled by
just
you know
just how what great artists i got a
chance to work with like marguerite
derrick and eugene mccarthy and jay
roach and
all of the people
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excellent basil we've been trying for
years to get a mold inside dr evil's
lair we now have that mole yes
ah
and here he is
so you're the
mo
now the reason i did the mole joke is
that i
just recently had it removed but i had a
giant mole on my face
and i'd just gotten on saturday live
and these
uh college girls the kind of like mean
girls right uh were walking by i was
looking in the window and they went that
looks like mike myers
and uh i said did like that she goes
that's not mike myers he's got that big
ugly mole on his face
and i was like every time she was like i
can smack to the face yeah you've never
seen that mole that big ugly mole yeah
he's got a mole and they said it like 20
times and so it always just
stayed in my head holy moly moly
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that was improvised one of the things
with jay roach the director
is we always get the scripted take
and then we get a series for what we
call shizzies and gizzies just to see
what we got more often than not we'll
pull from that that take usually to
button a scene
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listen little donkey take a look at me
what am
i oh
[Music]
really tall no
i'm an ogre you know
fairy tales were about the class system
you know i mean you had uh
you had worker people and then you had
this people who were for no reason
the king and queen they weren't elected
or anything so i always could thought
that that ogres were working people
growing up as a working person so i
thought i tried it as a canadian
and it just didn't have any umph
and
then i said can i can i record it again
as scottish because i know
you know fairy tales are eurocentric
form
scottish people are near and dear to me
i have relatives in scotland and
background and scottish and they're
working people it's a working people
accent
and they went uh
no we like it the way it is i said oh
come on just let me steven spielberg
said why don't you try it once okay
okay
but one night only ah thank you he sent
me a lovely letter steven spielberg
saying you're so right it's way better
as scottish thank you so much
uh they spent some money but not the
amount of money that has been reported
in the press i'd like to point out uh
and by the way i recorded it all for
free one more time and just happy to do
so because i wanted it to be good
and uh
and there we have uh shrek being
scottish it's gonna be fun we can stay
up late swapping man list stories and in
the morning
i'm making waffles oh
where do uh ashley i never saw
uh eddie murphy until the press junket
but i fell in love with donkey
uh just hearing his voice to the
headphones and then when you start to
see the animation
and uh
i love that character donkey and i i
wish donkey lived in my house i love
that character so much
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y'all just kidnapped a black man we've
been kidnapping white men for years we
wanted to give you an opportunity what
if the world was run by five people but
what if they were nice
and not evil that they were benevolent
secret society i guess that's the
canadian in me who has a eternal trust
of government
um because government's been very good
to this canadian and uh
and uh what if a very unlikely local
canadian newscaster
was the only person who could uncover
the penthavert who must never be exposed
i wanted to make something silly and fun
and something that's cinematic
and has big sets and
helicopters and and stuff like that
because those are the type of movies
that i grew up on and i love and i
wanted to make something that is a
little like how british tv where they
make six and go
and that's it unless we want to do more
but it's designed to be six
basically we're the good guys
we want you to trust us why should i
trust you white man
white a man
older white a man
i don't know what the hell to make out
of you
the world is a little anti-expert right
now
and
the basic thing i just wanted to say was
um
it's a high tide that floats all boats
expertise everybody benefits from smart
people and experts but the experts need
to serve the people and the people need
to trust the experts but it's way
sillier than that it's
everything i loved doing with austin
powers i was on saturday night live i
did a character called lothar of the
hill people
and it's so it's always holy
there's low thought
and i'm like of everything i've done
lothar of the hill people
is the one and i always go
yes i am