Jamie Kennedy: The Mr. Skin Interview

It seems mighty early for a star like you to be awake.
Anybody--star, non-star, dishwasher, my God--I've been up since 5 A.M. doing radio. How about you... is this porno?

No, we're a movie site that reviews mainstream and cult films by their nude scenes.
I'm looking at it right now. I've heard of you. You're on Howard Stern all the time. Is this your site?

I'm one of the loyal minions that toil for the great Mr. Skin.
[Surfing the site] Shannon Elizabeth (Picture: 1), man oh man.

Are you unwashed right now?
I've very much unwashed, but not as much as these pictures of somebody from Kentucky Fried Movie. And Monica Bellucci (Picture: 1)... But definitely unwashed.

Unwashed is your first stand-up concert film. Why'd you wait so long?
Well, it's just a matter of time. I've done stand-up on and off my whole career and I built up enough material that I thought, "Why not try and do a special?" I've always wanted to do one. I've done guest spots and now it's my time. And Comedy Central said, "Let's do it."

According to your promotional materials, it's "raunchier, edgier, and more unpredictable." What exactly does that mean?
People know me from my hidden-camera shows, which are fun, light-hearted. But this is more, well, I curse and I talk about more adult stuff, like growing up as an alter boy, crazy jobs. "Smoke Pot, Get Paid," was a classified I answered. It's unpredictable because I keep in things that are mistakes, like a lady heckled me and I kept it in. There was a cameraman fuck up and I kept it in. I like to keep it different.

You talk about your experiences, but you also talk about things like cat sex and fluffers, so are those part of your personal experiences?
Cat sex, yes; fluffer, no.

Well, at least you're not a pervert.
I always thought, wouldn't it be weird if you were a fluffer and you never moved out of the job. Because I started out as an extra and then I moved up from that, you know, a couple of lines and then an actor and stuff. I thought, what happens to a fluffer, you just do that and never really advance? You know, twenty years on the job with no benefits. "Hey Bill, how are you? Mets win? What did Mike Piazza do?" You have to see my hands right now. Funny, when I did that bit the audiences were like, "Oh!" Like they were defending fluffers' rights or something.

What's the story behind your hit single "I Like Your Left Tit"?
It's an ode to my old girlfriend's left tit. You know, most women have two breasts, and usually women's breasts hang a little lower on one side. Her left hung a little lower and I liked it, had a better shade to it, so I wrote a song.

Is she proud of that song?
I don't know. I've sung it on the radio and on TV. She doesn't really talk about it.

I had an old girlfriend who had slightly different-sized breasts and asked me if I noticed. I told her I did, and she got very mad at me.
Well, if there's a huge difference, well then, yeah, but if it's a little bit then what's the big deal, right?

Since you played movie geek Randy Meeks in the Scream movies, I've got some movie-geek questions, Mr. Skin-style, for you. First, do you remember the first time you saw a nude scene in a mainstream movie?
Yes! This is crazy, are you ready? You know my show Blowin' Up. You know my friend Stuart Stone is on it with me. The first nude scene I ever saw was a movie called Heavenly Bodies (Picture: 1), and what's crazy is that my friend Stu Stone was in that. What's weird is I became friends with this guy and probably got a boner to a movie he was in. He was a little kid in that movie. I remember, Heavenly Bodies, they were on the beach, tits--the most beautiful tits I ever saw. I was tripping out.

When you see nudity for the first time--I forget how jarring stuff is. I remember when I was twelve I saw a very crazy pornographic image and I almost got sick. I don't know if kids today are like that or if they're just used to it, we take it for granted. The Internet is so insane. But I remember seeing something that was pretty graphic when I was twelve and I was like, whoa. You get used to it when you're older.

It's like drinking hard liquor.
Yeah, but seeing boobs for the first time was a little scary and exciting. Even pre-that, Revenge of the Nerds, Ski School (Picture: 1), Porky's (Picture: 1 - 2), Hollywood Knights (Picture: 1 - 2)), that was my era.

Do you have a favorite sex scene on film?
I remember the Playboy channel when it first came out and my parents didn't have cable because they were cheap. I used to watch it in between the squigglies and when I got a moment on would become so exited. But my favorite sex scene in a movie... wow, favorite total sex scene...

Is there one that stays in your mind, has special significance? For people my age it's often Phoebe Cates (Picture: 1) in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, you know, coming topless out from the pool.

Oh my God! That was a huge one. That's really burned in people's brains.

How about actresses, who's your favorite sex symbol?
Who was in the early '80s? Off the top of my head, I used to love Sheena Easton. She wasn't an actress, but, God, I wanted to do stuff to her. I was in awe of her. In movies, I love that girl from Revenge of the Nerds, that blonde girl. She was so hot, like that insane body. I don't remember her name. She was Ted McGinley's girlfriend [Julia Montgomery (Picture: 1)--Ed.]. But that era, around Fast Times, was always exciting for me.

How many famous actresses are trying to get backstage to hang with you?
I meet actresses sometimes at events, but the best time to meet actresses is on the set. You don't try to do something, the clich?appens. You're doing scenes with somebody all day, from different angles, there's a chemistry that's either going to develop or not. Definitely going to be there for a lot of times. I've definitely had moments on the set where you wonder what's real and what isn't.

If women claim a funny man is an aphrodisiac then you must beat the groupies off with a stick.
Is that true? Women say that all the time, but I will say that women do say my sense of humor is very good. I'm pale as a ghost. I have a little bit of a gut, and women do not mind that. They do like humor. I'm not beating them off with a stick, but my dad always said that if you could make a woman laugh you can laugh her right out of her pants--wise father, right?

Are you going to wash up after this dirty interview?
I don't know. I'm still dirty, been dirty. You know what I like about your questions and your site is that it takes me back to my innocence of the age, like the girl from Bachelor Party, she was a hot one, Tawny Kitaen (Picture: 1), early Mariel Hemingway (Picture: 1), Sheila E., Apollonia (Picture: 1), the Porky's movies, and other teen sex comedies of the early '80s.