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Conan:
Please welcome Seth Green. Conan:
How are you? Seth:
Here we go again. Conan:
Yeah. So did you see Fabio at all back stage, were you guys hanging
out. Seth:
Did I! Conan:
Yeah. He is a larger than life guy. Seth:
He was hanging out. Conan:
Yeah. Seth:
It was so funny too, cos my friend and I were just talking about him - in
passing my friend was saying... Conan:
This was before you even knew he was on the show? Seth:
No idea. We were talking about going out in public and people
recognising you and things that people do to hide or whatever and my friend
goes, 'You know who I feel bad for? It's Fabio. He can't go
anywhere cos he is always Fabio' and I'm like, 'He ain't trying to hide',
you know? Conan:
Yeah, I don't see him... [mimes blocking his face from a camera] 'please
leave me alone.' Seth:
There's no haircut dying, shirt buttoning, 'it's just who I am, it's what
I'm doing, I'm Fabio.' Conan:
He could be wearing a pumpkin on his head and you'd still be, like, 'there
goes Fabio with a pumpkin on his head.' Seth:
Yeah! Conan:
Now, you, of course, through Buffy and these different roles you've
been doing, you're very young, young people really like you, you've gotta
been in Tiger Beat. You have to have been in Tiger Beat.
I mean, you're someone who should be in Tiger Beat, long
before me, you know what I'm saying? If I'm in Tiger Beat,
they're scraping the bottom of some bowl somewhere. Seth:
I don't know, if you do an audience poll, I think everyone thinks you're
pretty fly, Mr. Conan. Audience
cheer. Conan:
You know what this is called? This is called servicing the denial. Seth:
Yeah. Soliciting the audience. Conan:
Yeah, right. Seth:
No, I had a sad, sad situation when I was, like, twelve, trying to parlay
into the 'handsome guy' club. It just wasn't working out. I had
this publicist tell me, 'If you want to be popular, you gotta get in the
magazines.' So I was like, 'All right... I don't know what to
do.' And he said, 'Here's what you gotta do, you gotta set up a
contest. Give away something of yours from a movie' and I was like
[pulls face], all the movies I'd done were pretty adult-orientated, you
can't give away a stuffed dog or an old-fashioned radio. And he goes,
'You can do anything. Kids, they'll want anything. We'll do your
sneakers.' And Tiger Beat was like, 'Let me get this straight,
you want to give away a pair of crappy Converse All-Stars from some unknown
who's not that good-looking?' It didn't go over. Conan:
Aw, they didn't do it? Audience
is sympathetic. Conan mimes wringing his eyes out. Seth:
[playing on it] Life's been hard for me. Conan:
You've got it rough, my friend. Seth:
I didn't get in Tiger Beat. Conan:
I gotta say, it's pretty cool once you're in there. You act like, 'Oh,
I don't care that I'm [not] in it' but I know it eats away at you. Seth:
It does. Conan:
Every day it eats. And also, I love... I was flipping through it once
I got it - might as well look through it - all these incredibly handsome
kids are like, 'I can't get a date because I'm saving myself for the girl
who's reading this right now.' It's so manipulative. Seth:
Wow! Conan:
I mean, not that I want to say anything bad about Tiger Beat, they've
been good to me. Seth:
Yeah. They gave you the Gold Card to the Ambassadors Club... Conan:
I wish it was like Playboy, there's like Tiger Beat Club you
could go to. 'Have some Kool-Aid.' 'Thank you.' Conan:
Now Rat Race... Seth:
Yeah. Conan:
It's a funny movie. Do people like this movie? Seth:
You know what's sad? That clip is so deceiving because that's pretty
much the only dialogue that Vince Vieluf - the guy that's in the clip, plays
my brother - it's the only dialgoue we have in the movie, the rest of it,
we're running, jumping, screaming, been chased... Conan:
Very physical. Seth:
...hurting, hitting. Conan:
Right, right. Seth:
The movie's called Rat Race and we're racing violently and
being beaten and thrown through... Conan:
Well, a lot of the clips I've seen you're literally being smashed up against
cows, tossed through the air, and it looks like you. It doesn't look
like a stunt guy. Seth:
It is. No, Vince and I are, like, morons. Jerry Zucker, who
directed Airplane and Naked Gun and Ghost, we came and
met him and we're like, 'Jerry, we're gonna do it all. We're gonna do
all the stunts. Anything, we're gonna do it all.' And Jerry's
like, 'Oh, all right,' and that's basically what happened. Conan:
Right. Seth:
The stunt guys were like, 'You want to do this?' We're like,
'Yeah.' They're like, 'Put this rig on, we're gonna send you 700 feet
up, we're gonna swung you into a bunch of cows - go to it buddy!' You
see them and they're such cowboys. You get into that mentality
of 'All right!' and I was actually swinging from a hundred foot crane
with nothing around, it's just me and God swinging on the crane going, 'How
did I agree to this?' Conan:
Yeah. There's nothing like a floppy armed dummy, that's what I
think. I don't care if it looks fake. I like the dummies that
when they clearly in a movie throw a dummy off and the arms have no joints
and they just dub the actor going, 'Oh no!' That's the kind of dummy
you want. Seth:
I agree but I tell you, it worked well, because the movie's really funny and
you can clearly see that it's us - that was the benefit. Conan:
And you shot part of this in Las Vegas. Did you get to do any
gambling? Seth:
I'm terrible at the gambling. The one thing that we did that was
really funny, we all went out - it's all these big stars like Whoopi
Goldberg and Cuba Gooding Jr. and John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson and my
buddy Breckin's in it, plus Vince and everybody - so it's just a big party
and everybody else was really into gambling, like 'Let's do it!' and you got
Cuba Gooding and go out gambling with Cuba, you're just waiting, you're
waiting for it to happen, everyone's like, 'When's he gonna say it, when's
he gonna say it?' Conan:
It's sort of like...that's the perfect environment for him to say it,
and it's him. It's like a bomb ready to go off. Seth:
It's like an elephant in the room. We're all trying to really, really
cool about it, we're looking at Whoopi like, 'he wouldn't possibly say
that.' Cuba's rolling the craps, he's like... [does excited
impression]. And he won really big and I swear he just yelled,
'Show me the money!' And even us - even the high falutin' actor
people who were like, 'Can you please have some respect? Come on, he's
an actor, it's a line' - soon as he said that, we all got giddy. We
were like, 'Oh my god, he said it. He actually said it.' Conan:
That's hilarious. Seth:
And he just looked around, like, 'What do you think I was gonna do?' Conan:
He has to. It makes people happy. Seth:
Yeah. Conan:
My old friend, Jon Lovitz, is in the film. You like working with Jon
Lovitz. Seth:
It's the second time I got to work with Jon. I worked with him when I
was, like, thirteen years old. Conan:
He's an hilariously funny guy. Seth:
And I've run into him a bunch of times since then. Every time I see
him it's always the same thing, 'Growing up are you son?' He's just
got such a big heart and he's so funny in this movie - you guys have no
idea. Conan:
What's funny about Jon Lovitz is that everyone thinks that's like a voice
that he makes up. That's how he really talks. When you're
running in the street he's like, 'Well, hello there Conan.' He
really does talk that way. Seth:
[does impression] 'I don't know...if you make this steak medium
rare, I'm not gonna like it.' That's Jon. Conan:
I saw him walking down the street once, he had this blonde on his arm or
something like that and I was, like, 'Oh Jon, it's nice to meet you' and
then I said, 'It's nice to meet your girlfriend' or whatever and he went,
'Jealous?' He's like living a cartoon. Seth:
Hey, I brought something for you that I wanted to show you. Conan:
What's that? Seth:
Remember last time I came on, we we're doing - we're still doing - that
animation show? Conan:
You had, like, an animated puppet show. Seth:
It's all dolls based on real people but this company that does most of our
toys and this other company did a suit for you and we put this whole doll
together to replace... Conan:
Oh, a Conan doll. Oh, wow! Look at that. Very nice. Audience
applaud. Conan:
The only thing I'll say is the skin colour is a little off. Look at
that - if only! Seth:
It's vacation Conan. Conan:
This is if I had a child with Ricardo Montalban - kind of what he would look
like. You've been very flattering about the shoulders too. Seth:
Hey, I had nothing to do with it. Conan:
Thank you very much. Seth:
You can pose it in all karate poses and stuff. It's pretty cool. Conan:
Wow! Poseable action figure, Tiger Beat, it's all coming true. Audience
applaud. Conan:
Rat Race opens this Friday and look for Knockaround Guys in
theatres this fall. Seth, always great to have you here, thanks for
doing it. Seth Green, everybody.
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