Now, I'm curious if you're like me, I know that, you know,
New York's in your blood,
and today I'm walking to work and I pass,
they've put up the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree,
already.
It's 65 degrees outside.
(audience chuckling)
The guys working on it are in bathing suits.
(Matthew laughing) (audience laughing)
But I walked by and I thought, you know, okay,
I feel like I'm maybe starting to get
into the Christmas spirit, I know it's a little early.
How about you?
Are you?
It's starting to feel that way in New York, isn't it?
A little bit, yeah, there's a certain spring in the step
of most New Yorkers around this time of year.
Yeah, right.
(both laughing) (audience laughing)
Wow, (laughs) you really seem like you're in this, yeah,
a spring in the step-- Well, it's little warm.
It's a little warm to me.
Yeah.
Right now.
But it when it gets cold and you have a nice wool scarf on
and a hat, and you see that tree,
a little tear'll, you'll feel Christmasy, I promise.
(Conan laughing) (audience laughing)
You really tear up when you see the tree, do you?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's that time of year--
Have you had that looked at? (laughs)
(audience laughing)
That could be retinal damage of some kind.
(audience laughing) Yeah, could be.
Traditionally, are you someone that really gets
into, you know, like I want to decorate the home?
I want to--
I do, you know, we have a very typical tree,
and we're not crazy about it, but we do definitely decorate,
and my son now, of course, he knows things are coming,
and Santa, he believes in, I shouldn't say in case he's,
but he believes in Santa 'cause it's true.
Of course he should, yes, yes.
(audience laughing)
(laughs) You do?
Yes. (laughs)
Sorry, 'cause it's true.
(audience laughing) Yeah. (laughs)
It's true, it is true, it's true.
What do you mean? (audience laughing)
Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, yeah. (laughs)
I got very confused there, yeah.
Yeah, I don't know,
that was weird. (Conan laughing)
I don't know what we're talking about.
So, he looks up the chimney now, you know.
Oh, that's nice.
Just before bed, he'll just be like.
(Matthew whistling)
(audience chuckling) And he doesn't whistle.
He doesn't whistle, but he does look up the--
That's nice that you have a chimney because a lot
of people living in Manhattan--
I like I just gestured to our fake window.
(Matthew laughing)
(audience laughing)
And I live right there. See, yeah there you are.
Hello.
Go to bed, James.
(Conan laughing) (audience chuckles)
No, I'm pressed
because you have chimneys, We have chimneys.
We have a couple chimneys, couple.
I live in an apartment. Fireplace.
There's no chimney.
So, there's a whole other myth about Santa comes
through the microwave oven.
(audience laughing)
He climbs in the fire escape.
He can go through fiber optic cable.
(audience laughing)
(fingers tapping) He's downloaded,
and then, yeah.
It's weird.
But so, he's excited. Yeah, but you don't want
to take that thing too literally.
It gets hard.
It gets difficult, even with the chimney.
If you think about it too much, it's tough.
How does Santa get down?
And all that, you know.
Well, what happens is
you start answering initial questions,
and then I remember at that age asking a lot of questions
and then you'd get like a PlayStation or something
for Christmas,
and you'd be like, well, how was this?
It says right here, it was made in China.
Why did--
And then it's like, Santa is subcontractors, you know.
(audience laughing) (Matthew laughing)
Yup.
Very strange.
It's complicated.
So, your son's getting into it?
He is, yeah.
It just occurred to me,
walking around Manhattan, I see posters for your movie,
and I'm curious what's it like when you're out walking
around with your son, James, who is four, I believe?
Four, yeah. Four.
You're walking around with your boy, James,
who's four years old, and you see your picture.
Does he connect that you're a well-known person?
A little bit.
He's just starting to, you know, I mean the whole world
to him is so strange anyway, but that's just an added layer
of, you know, something that he doesn't quite understand.
But we were in central park yesterday and we were leaving,
and there was a stand with lots of postcards and frames
of New York, you know, scenes from New York.
And one was a little poster from "The Odd Couple."
This is a picture of me and Nathan Lane, and he said,
"Papa, that's you, you see there you are, right there,"
and I was like, "Yeah, that's right, look at that."
And this woman was going through them,
and she asked him some question.
He was like, "He is him,"
(Conan laughing) (audience laughing)
and she said, "What?"
And he was like, "Him is he."
(Conan laughing) (audience laughing)
And she was like, okay, you're crazy, you know,
you're four, and you are nuts. (Conan laughing)
What are they talking about?
Yeah, you know,
four year-old talk. Very strange.
And just went back to her other,
and isn't this a nice little, you know?
Right.
But, I said "I understand, James, okay,
I know what you mean, I understood that."
Yeah, I got your back.
He is him.
He be he.
He, yes.
That man is he.
Yes.
So, what can he do now that he's four?
What are his, I don't know what a four year-old--
How old are your--
My kids, are I have a three-year-old daughter,
and a one-year-old son.
So, I'm curious, like what can they do at four?
Are they doing card tricks?
Can they crack a safe?
(audience laughing) Can they hot-wire a car?
Well, he's written two symphonies.
Oh, very good, very good.
Yeah, you know, it seems pretty much the same.
He's a little more talkative,
and he's very into role-playing.
So, he puts on a Spider-Man or a Superman,
or a Buzz Lightyear outfit,
pretty much every night when he gets home.
He's like, "Spider-Man, please."
(Conan laughing) (audience laughing)
You know, he starts taking off his shoes
when he gets in. (laughs) Sure, yeah.
He's ready.
You bring the Spider-Man costume.
Put his arms out, you know, put it on him.
And then with Spider-Man, recently,
we realized when he's like, "I'm tired of being Spider-Man.
I want to be Peter Parker, take my costume off."
So Peter Parker is basically naked.
(Conan laughing) (audience laughing)
Naked is Peter Parker,
and dressed is Spider-Man. Yeah, that's very strange.
He's a naked guy running around the apartment.
Running around, I'm Peter Parker, don't call,
I'm Peter Parker,
I'm Peter Parker, it's very-- (Conan laughing)
They're gonna work that into the next movie, I think.