I was very excited when I heard you guys were making
this movie because Starsky and Hutch when I was in,
I'm trying to think when it was,
but I think it was when I was in the fifth,
sixth or seventh grade, something like that, it was huge,
it was a really cool show, loved it, and
Yeah, they were the coolest guys on TV.
Sort of the first cop show,
before Miami Vice, it was like Starsky and Hutch.
Right, right, and I heard you guys were making this movie
and you've been out promoting this movie together,
and you're getting along well?
Yeah, we're getting along good,
you learn about each other's little kind of quirks
and things after 180 interviews,
Ben has to get his M&Ms after a couple hours
(audience laughing)
or he starts to get low blood sugar
and gets a little cranky.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, Owen has his little, his raw vegetables that he eats,
he gets very healthy during a press time.
Owen likes the raw vegetables, huh?
Yeah.
(all laughing)
And we got these great stories that we tell together,
like this one.
[Conan] Yeah.
(audience laughing)
This is one of your classics, right?
The old M&Ms and vegetables.
Brings down the house, this brings down the house.
You know, yeah. We do end up telling them the same
sort of stock story.
Well, after 180 interviews you kind
of have your little jokes, your little stories, like,
"Ooh, Ben's a bad driver."
(Ben laughs)
It's like, "Yeah, he took driving lessons."
But yesterday we go on Katie Couric
and one of the big questions is,
"You guys have worked together a lot."
[Conan] Right.
"What's that like?"
And then I say, "Well, we're like Hope and Crosby",
and I give Ben the punchline, "Without the big following."
[Conan] Right.
And we go on yesterday, we're kind of prepared,
so, I'm gonna say the "Hope and Crosby", then you weigh in,
and it's real, you know, frantic there.
We got there late too,
we got there at 07:36 and we had to go on at 07:41.
It was crazy, and then you were late,
and then I sit down and Katie says, "I'm gonna ask you
about Iraq and the gay marriages."
[Conan] What?
kind of just to throw me off,
(audience laughing)
so, I was a little rattled.
Why is she asking you that? That's crazy.
I don't know, she was just kind of,
she was kidding me, but it got me flustered,
so, then when we get into the interview and she says,
He's easily flustered.
Yeah.
(audience laughing)
I get rattled easily.
[Conan] You get rattled.
So, we get into the interview and she says,
"You guys have worked together a lot",
that's what I've been waiting for, that's my opening.
[Conan] Right.
(Conan laughs)
Here I come.
[Conan] Here comes the opening.
Okay, and so I say, "We're kind of like Hope and Crosby",
silence from Ben, nothing.
(audience laughing)
And then Katie says, "Yeah, without the big following.
I know, I read it in time magazine,
you just said that Owen."
So, she had read the punchline,
(audience exclaims)
Boo, Katie, right? Boo.
(audience booing)
But then it's not so much Katie,
it's my partner who then piles on and says,
"Owen has no original material",
(audience laughing)
"he just says the same thing over and over."
So wait, so, Ben sold you out?
I think it was Ben selling me,
You've got to go with the flow.
No, Ben. Ben who's been comatose all morning comes alive
to kind of make me look like a fool.
[Conan] Yeah.
Kind of the way you're coming alive right now.
Yeah, well, every once in a while I can turn
on the (indistinct)
Yeah, I did not leave a break for it,
I didn't leave it hanging, she came in.
Ben, it was total silence when I looked to you,
and then she had to supply the punchline,
and for the rest of the interview, it was like,
Well, that's because it was an old punchline.
I was in shock because I looked like a fool.
I think what we've learned from this is
that when Ben sees a weakness, he'll attack,
even if you're an old friend.
Yes, it's like "Lord of the Flies."
Yeah.
(audience laughing)
Like Piggy, yeah, that's terrible.
Now, let's talk about, we had Snoop here the other night,
Snoop Dogg is in the movie.
(audience cheering)
And I think I will defend this as
the greatest casting choice ever,
and I've gone through all the classic movies,
this is the greatest ever.
Yeah, there's no getting around it.
There's no getting around Snoop playing Huggy Bear.
No.
And I was very excited to hear that.
There was no other choice.
literally nobody else was thought of.
Enough said.
[Conan] Yeah.
Enough said.
(audience laughing)
Does he always say, "Enough said",
when you say, "There was no other choice."?
A reasonable man cannot differ, that's my other line.
That's another one you use sometimes.
Well, you know what I love about Snoop?
He's been on this show many times, whenever he shows up,
he's got this great entourage and these,
The Arch Bishop Don Magic Juan is his spiritual advisor.
Yes, we actually have a photo of this guy
who travels with Snoop, there he is.
(audience laughing)
[Conan] That's Bishop.
[Owen] And that is not a, you know,
particular, you know, crazy day.
[Conan] No.
That is day-to-day wear.
That's his work clothes in the basement,
that's what he wears.
He was a pimp.
[Conan] Yeah.
He was yeah a pimp who then became a preacher.
[Conan] Right.
And he wrote a book about it called,
"From Pimp Stick to Pulpit."
[Conan] Yeah.
(audience laughing)
It's a real book.
It's a real book, I read it,
I finally found someone who told my story.
(all laughing)
And that wasn't a set up line.
No, no.
So, this is great,
now, is it true that Snoop,
while you were making this movie,
and this is a serious thing,
we all love Snoop and we're glad he's okay, but actually,
(indistinct), that's right.
Somebody took a shot at him? Is that right?
That first week Ben came to me, he was like,
"Did you hear?",
I'm like, "What?",
"Snoop got shot",
I'm, "Oh my gosh, is he okay? That's so terrible."
He got shot at, yeah.
He got shot at when he was driving home.
He came for his wardrobe fitting,
it was in the news, it was on CNN.
[Conan] Right, right.
He was, you know, I don't know,
it was some sort of gang thing.
But then, Ben, I was really concerned and you were too,
but you said, "I'd have more sympathy
if he didn't drive around with a huge SUV emblazoned
with The Dogg Mobile on",
(audience laughing)
"It seems like if you're trying
to keep a low profile you know?"
So, Ben is also unsympathetic we're learning.
(audience laughing)
Incredible, these are great stories.
(Conan laughing)
Literally the first time I've ever been credited
for saying that was just now.
Oh, come on
Now, I wanna ask you.
(all laughing)
I don't buy the old, "Oh, shucks, I'm from Texas."
You're not buying it?
No.
[Conan] Oh, good.
(Ben laughs)
It's working for me.
I'm not buying it, Conan.
You guys presented at the Oscars,
I thought you did a really funny bit.
Thank you.
I thought you were hilarious on the show.
Did you get good feedback from it?
Cause that's seen by 800 million people.
It was weird,
You were a little bit down right when we got off,
I felt I had to buck you up.
It went good, but I, myself, wasn't really sure
if it had gone well, and I called my parents,
my dad gets on the phone,
then I hear my mom getting on,
my dad's like, "Oh, it went great, it went great",
and there's nothing from my mom,
"Mom, how did it go?"
"It was good, it was good.
You know, you don't have to try and be funny, you know?
You can just be dignified."
(audience laughing)
I'm up there making a fool of myself.
Never really crossed her mind.
(all laughing)
But it was funny when you were getting ready
cause, you know, the bit was you were supposed
to come out as Starsky and look kind of ridiculous,
but Ben was looking in the mirror as we're getting ready,
And he says, "I know I'm supposed to look ridiculous,
but I think I look good."
(all laughing)
[Owen] That's what made the bit good.
(audience cheering)
I work in a (indistinct) method sort of way.
Now you guys, I was thinking about it today,
you guys have worked together a lot, haven't you?
(audience laughing)
Yes, we have. We're sort of like Hope and Crosby kind of,
(audience laughing)
but without the big following.
(audience cheering)
There we go.
It worked.
Now, I bet this is the question you never get,
do you plan on working together again on some new projects?
Well, actually, yes.
In fact, we haven't really talked about this anywhere,
I can say it here for the first time,
we've actually signed an exclusive contract
to only work together from now on in the future.
(audience laughing)
Wow, I bet those will be good movies.
Yeah, we actually have five movies coming out
in the next two years.
(audience laughing)
[Conan] Five movies?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And we actually brought some of the posters for them
to see what's coming up.
[Conan] Oh, I'd love to see these.
It's just so much fun working together.
I think we're all just kind of spit balling it.
Yeah, we've got some ideas.
The first one's coming out this summer, it's a buddy comedy,
it's called, "Sumo Cum Laude"
(audience laughing)
[Conan] Sumo Cum Laude? Wow.
[Ben] They're two brothers that are losers.
[Conan] Right, right
Father says we have to graduate from college,
we have to figure out, how are we gonna do it?
Become sumo wrestlers.
[Conan] Become sumo wrestler? Okay, good.
That one looks good.
There's a Conan part in there somewhere,
I know there is,
I'll be the uptight Dean,
"I won't have it."
[Ben] Exactly
All right, I'm liking it.
Seriously? Will you do it?
[Conan] Sure, yeah. let's do it.
And then we have sort of a,
kind of another buddy action cop thing with a twist,
this one's called, "Magnet Crotch and Iron Face."
(audience laughing)
[Conan] Wow.
This comes out in the fall.
And that's high concept.
Ben's Iron Face.
That's high concept,
but now a fall high concept movie,
we want to try to bring those into the fall.
[Conan] Right, why do those two work together? Yeah.
Yeah. And then we thought for Christmas,
we're going back to a classic,
it's the remake of, "Every Which Way but Loose."
[Conan] Wow, that's great.
(audience laughing)
The old Clint Eastwood classic right there.
(Conan laughs)
(Conan's laugh muffles out Owen)
That's disturbing, that's disturbing.
That's my favorite line.