Sat., Jan. 7, 2006. 1:27 AM

Conan: My next guest tonight has appeared in numerous Adam Sandler movies including big daddy, the waterboy the wedding singer happy gilmore and of course beginning today you can see him in "little nicky". Please welcome the very funny Allen Covert. Now Allen, people are going to think this is a joke, but you really are from Palm Beach county.

Allen: Born and raised.

Conan: Born and raised in Palm Beach county!

Allen: Never been prouder.

Conan: Can you understand how this happened?

Allen: I've lived there for 18 years, the first 18 years of my life, and I gotta tell ya - I'm not surprised.

Conan: Really.

Allen: These are people who used to cheat off of ME in highschool. That'll show you where they stand.

Conan: I've seen the movie, which I enjoyed, and being from Florida -- you must be a big Dolphins fan?

Allen: Yeah, yeah. Huge.

Conan: Dan Marino's IN the movie. Was that cool for you to meet him? You actually got to work with him.

Allen: Well, I'm such a big fan that I actually was too scared to meet him. I couldn't do it, I was starstruck. I was like "Oh My God." But he had his 14 year old kid with him, so cornered HIM, and told him "You tell your dad 'I'm his biggest fan, I saw the game where he broke the touchdown record, I'm going if he gets in the Hall of Fame, I've seen every game he's ever played in.' Make sure you tell him - 'I'm his biggest fan.'" Later I saw him talking to his dad so I kind of figured I would eavesdrop and see what Dan's reaction was. When I walked up there the kid goes "Hey dad, the gay guy from Big Daddy wants to bone you."

Conan: And then you got a call?

Allen: No no...

Conan: Now this movie, as you can see - that's the briefest clip we've ever been sent by a movie company, by the way -

Allen: They were disgusted by my gut. They didn't want to show it too much.

Conan: But the thing is, you don't look in this movie - you're really quite heavy in the movie, and you've got this weird artificial receding hairline...

Allen: Yeah, they had to shave my head every day.

Conan: But I was realizing that in most of Adam's movies that you've been in, you always look weird. You never quite look like yourself. He always makes you look weird. Is that him doing that?

Allen: Well, yeah. What happened was, a long time ago Sandler decided that I was funny and he said "You know what I'm going to put you in every movie I make but I'm going to make sure you never have sex again." But it's not working! It's not working. But at 400 bucks a pop, it's still as rare as it used to be.

Conan: That's a nice moral. It had a happy ending, to the story. You have a lot of scenes with this talking dog. I would think it's hard to work with a dog.

Allen: This dog was hard to work with just because we had two different styles. I went to acting school, I'm always like "What's my motivation?" And he's just more of an impulse actor. We were having a tough time with a scene one day, and I was just like "Look, what's your motivation in this scene?" And he said "Chicken. If I sit here and do it right, that guy over there gives me chicken."

Conan: Is that really how they do it?

Allen: Oh man, they're crazy. Like, if you were the dog, and I was me, there'd be six guys hidden around here with chicken and whistles. You're trying to act and they're going "Woo woo woo!"

Conan: That's how I'll be getting [David] Hastlehoff to come out here next week. I'll be hiding chicken. "This way! C'mon David!" "Awwww, CHICKEN!" . . . He's going to cancel now, isn't he?

Allen: Definitely.

Conan: Adam was here last night. He has a steady girlfriend, I'm happy for him. He seemed very in love. What about you? You have a steady girlfriend?

Allen: I fell in love, recently.

Conan: That's nice.

Allen: I'm very much in love.

Conan: Is she here with you tonight?

Allen: No, she couldn't be here. If she were here, that would me she was within a hundred feet of me. Apparently a judge thinks that's a bad idea. A few thousand phone calls a day, all of a sudden you're a stalker.

Conan: Yeah. It'll work out. Just give it time.

Allen: No, she'll understand one of these days.

Conan: What do you do because you're on this movie making schedule? You know, you make a movie, then you have all this down time. It's not like tv where it's a constant grind. What do you do to unwind?

Allen: We've been pretty busy lately, so I usually only get Sundays off. But I've found this great thing to do on Sundays- Open Houses.

Conan: Oh, when they show a house. Yeah, that's nice.

Allen: It's the greatest thing! [asking the audience] Do you guys know about this?

Conan: Yeah, anyone can go.

Allen: You can just walk around people's houses! You're lookin' in people's closets, and I'm like "Hey, I've got that shirt, alright." Then at the end that's when they ask you if you've got any questions, and that's where I have my fun. I go "Uh, yeah. I really like the paint in the living room, but, say I got a lot of blood on it. Could I wipe that off, or would I have to repaint?" or like, "In the basement, say someone was...screaming at the top of their lungs? Could the neighbors hear that?" and then I like to take their card and go "Is this your home number?"

Conan: "Is this where I can find you??" Well, Little Nicky is...well, it's in theaters now. It comes out tonight.

Allen: Yeah. [to the audience] WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?

Conan: [whispering] We need these people.

Allen: Oh yeah. [to the audience] I'm glad you stayed!

Conan: Yeah, STAY, and then go see the movie. Allen, thanks so much for coming on.



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