Simon Helberg Channels Nic Cage, Billy Baldwin & Ben Stiller - CONAN on TBS

[Music] last time I talked to you we got into a discussion and you mentioned that your all time acting hero is Nicolas Cage yeah you love Nicolas play like him and so it's curious there's a new Ghost Rider yes movie that's coming out and I'm just curious he are you gonna see this movie no I can't I can't do it anymore I just I went up to Bangkok dangerous I got past the crazy title and his crazy his crazy hair and everything and I think I I think I need to retire the the cage image that I had as a youth let's talk in the positive and not the negative what is your favorite of the Nicolas Cage movies I think gosh I mean that you know his earlier ones obviously raising Arizona and I love honeymoon Vegas I love vampire's kiss I love his I just love his like his cadence I love that it feels like he crossed out all the punctuation and sort of threw away even with the language mint and just hears like sounds like an autistic just the way it is a very he has a very unusual delivery and he's not afraid to just go for it yeah yeah you know like there's a in in vampires kiss there's a part where he recites the entire alphabet and I remember thinking as kids like that that's the best acting of all time if you can recite the alphabet and still be interesting it's that's the key and like he's talking about like filing something to like a psychiatrist and and he's like he's like you have to put it in the right file you know according to alphabetical order you know hey QRS TUV wxy Z [Applause] that was not there's no way that was in that was in the script but now no he his most one of his most famous movie is Wicker Man is this web online sensation people talk about Wicker Man yeah they even tell what Wicker Man is really about I don't know either I I know that I mean I know it there's human sacrifice women taking men burning them to attract bees and honey and I don't know it just ends there same old story that Hollywood tells over and over yeah yeah it's screenwriting 101 I don't know he yeah he yells the climax is like what what was all for honey yeah yeah to my grave I want that to be my last words on her it was his and then the movie my family will be so confused yeah Conan's passing I think he has one last he was in a coma but he came out just to say this yeah honey it was all for honey now obviously you you you're quite talented at impressions you're good at impressions how did you get into impressions in the first place do you remember um I first realized I might have an ability here yeah I think I mean I think I was like 11 and I liked I like these I like this girl and I went on sort of a double date to her house to watch a movie and they put on sliver which is a Billy Baldwin Sharon Stone oh yeah yeah and so one of the girls is like you know like he's cute or whatever I was just trying to hold her hand I couldn't even pay attention in the movie but she was talking about Billy Bob instead he said he was cute and then she said you can look like him and I was like really and I went home and I was like I will look like I must so I went home and I just figured out that all he ever did was [Applause] I think we have a photo that I always keep on hand let's see this foot screen here [Applause] yeah if I heard rodents getting into my trash and I shined a flashlight that's what I would see I went back to school and I was like hey it's me remember forever how'd that work did she like you know she was she who was Billy Baldwin no so yeah that was that that was once I had that groundwork laid it yeah I everything else was yeah yeah and I guess I started to figured everyone someone said you kind of look like this person I thought I guess I have to know how to do yet down yes and I someone told me I look like Ben Stiller and so I figured out I was like all right I I guess he's just a lot of like whoa whoa whoa [Laughter] [Applause]

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Keywords: Simon Helberg, The Big Bang Theory, Celebs, Celebrity Interviews, Conan O'Brien, Conan, Conan (TV Series), TBS (TV Channel), Team Coco

Id: V7xQkJYwyi0

Length: 5min 0sec (300 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 01 2012

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[u/BossKamikaze]

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[u/7Snakes]

I lost it when he did the Billy Baldwin face!