Oh I'm naughty.
You're a naughty, naughty man.
I'm naughty.
(laughing)
I, you know, I'm always on the show going
hey man, you're movie's great.
This movie is very funny.
Oh. Thank you very much.
Very funny.
I mean that. I saw it a couple of nights ago.
I was laughing through the whole thing.
And you, you wrote this movie?
I did. Yes. Yeah.
It's got your sense of humor all the way through it.
It's really very great.
Oh, thank you very much.
The, there's just some stuff that,
that is shocking when you first see it.
It's and, and I we need some explanation here,
just so we warn people.
But in this movie you take off your shirt a lot.
Yes. Well, well within the tradition
of British and Canadian comedy is
partial male nudity.
(laughing)
[Conan O'Brien] Right.
Love to be naked as limeys.
(laughing)
Well, in this movie,
you've got about 60 pounds of chest hair.
Yes. Yes.
It's just all over the place.
Yeah. Well, it's, it's modeled after Sean Connery, who is,
he's a Yeti.
(laughing)
Man is just so covered in hair.
He could like knit his chest, you know.
It's like a hair suit, you know?
(laughing)
And so you, you saw, because this movie is really,
it's really poking fun of the spy genre.
James Bond, Matt Helm, In Like Flint,
all the movies from the sixties.
Cause you know,
every swinger in the sixties was like something by day,
like a tennis player and then a secret agent at night.
(laughing)
Right.
Like in the seventies it was like, you know,
they're a family by day,
and then they're in a band by night, you know,
that's a Partridge family, Josie and the Pussycats,
or even Fred, Fred Flintsone was in the the Way Outs,
you know.
Right, right.
But in the sixties, everybody had
to be a secret agent, you know.
Yeah. It was, it was, it was expected of you.
That's what you do, baby yeah.
(laughing)
Explain the. Explain the, in the movie,
your swinger has, a very cool guy, woman love him.
Yes.
Worst teeth I've ever seen.
You had these incredible prosthetic teeth.
Well, you know.
I hope they were prosthetic teeth.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
No, I, my parents were from Liverpool and they came to
Canada in 1956.
And in Britain, in the sixties,
you could be a swinger and
still have really bad teeth that didn't matter.
(laughing)
And you know, Britain won the war and lost their teeth.
(laughing)
They kind of, they view their teeth as a vestigial organ,
like the appendix.
(laughing)
Cause they, they eat about a metric ton
of sugar a day and they fry everything.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, you can still see rockstars today,
you know, from, from Britain who are bajillionaires
and they've just got like, you know, stick for teeth.
(laughing)
Just want to say you've got the money, go to the dentist.
(laughing)
Fix them. What about, what about the dancing?
Have you had a training in the dance as you call it?
The dance. Yes.
I have actually, strangely enough.
I took tap dancing lessons when I was a kid.
Ah me too.
Did you? Seriously?
Yeah.
Get out of town.
I did. When I was a kid,
I studied very seriously for like four years. Yeah.
I'm not kidding.
Oh, oh well.
It's, it's sad when I say it, you know.
When I do it, it's like, oh my God.
(laughing)
Maybe a little sexy.
(laughing)
No. Scary.
Anyway, go ahead.
Yeah, no, there's a show on Canadian television.
I grew up in Toronto and there's a show on Canadian
television called The Pig and Whistle, which was a,
it was supposed to be like, somebody knows it from Canada.
And to hear it on American TV is just like going what?
I've been transported.
It's a, it's a show that like is,
takes place on a British pub set.
And it's like, come in to the pig and whistle, come in.
And they have like cheeky, chappy, Cockney dancers,
like Mary Poppins you know.
And I saw it as a kid. And I, I went to my parents.
I went, I want to do that.
And so I took tap dancing lessons
from these people.
Uh huh. And the taught you well?
They taught me how to do jazz dancing,
and ballroom and cha cha cha.
And I can tap dance.
Were you mocked as a kid?
Cause, remember when I was a kid and, and,
and well, when I was a kid and I took tap dancing,
it's not the kind of thing you go and like,
tough kids are about to beat you and go,
wait a minute, wait a minute. I'm cool.
I can tap dance.
I can buck and wing.
Yeah.
No, my brothers used to taunt me mercilessly.
They called me tippy toes for four years.
My brothers would just completely torture us.
I mean, I must've drank in my lifetime,
at least the liter of their urine.
(laughing)
I, I mean it would be.
I swear to God.
What's the connection there, I don't see?
Tippy toes.
Oh. Uh huh.
It would be sort of like, Mikey,
you want a Mountain Dew.
(laughing)
And they'd go you're such an idiot, every time!
(laughing)
Every time!
So now.
(laughing)
I still have a bad association with Mountain Dew.
You still.
I don't trust people if they say,
what'd you got in the fridge?
Some Mountain Dew.
(laughing)
And I'm like, not again!