Peter Sagal

You started that in Canada.

And that after the first episode or so, the producer came up to you and told you to be more evil.

Is that true?

So in the Japanese version, they just needed money.

Well, I think begging for money is a great show.

What a great idea.

And for anybody who hasn't been in a hotel room with an hour to kill and hasn't seen Shark Tank,

In the show, you and the other sharks are investors.

You get pitched on these business ideas, inventions, services, whatever.

And you actually, if you choose to, invest your own money in these ideas, right?

And I'm just wondering, in your many, many years doing this in Canada and the U.S., do you have your particular favorite one or maybe one that got away or one that maybe you invested in that kind of didn't work out?

But let me tell you something.

I was going to say, I just so wish I had seen that episode, because up walks a six-foot-four Russian model biologist with a Q-tip in one hand, an unhappy cat in the other.

Saying, I'm going to make you rich.

You see?

I have to talk to you about Marty Supreme, the Oscar-nominated film, which I saw this week.

This is your very first acting role, right?

Never done it before.

And for those who haven't seen the film, and you should, it's quite brilliant, I was going to try to describe your character.

It's a major character in the movie, but I figured maybe I'd let you do it.