Posted by Mr. Beaks ;

; If you weren’t watching SCTV in the early 1980’s – and, judging from the ratings, most of you weren’t – your first exposure to Eugene Levy was probably his brief bit as an chiseling used car salesman in National Lampoon’s Vacation (the guy who sells Chevy Chase the clunker of a station wagon) or as the marine biologist obsessed with outing Daryl Hannah’s as a mermaid in Splash.; Since then, he’s become best known as the ever exasperated, but well meaning “Jim’s Dad” in the American Pie films, though he did pull off a late career coup with his turn as Mitch Cohen in A Mighty Wind.;

; Now, Levy’s actually been charged with carrying a film in The Man, where he co-stars with the very loud Samuel L. Jackson.; Levy plays an out-of-his-element dentist who inadvertently gets implicated in an arms smuggling deal that

Jackson, playing a Detroit police officer, has dedicated himself to busting up.; ; I’ve been a fan of Levy’s since the old SCTV days, so I was more than happy to throw a few questions his way at a roundtable.; Though I was mostly interested in finding out if there’s more Bobby Bittman on the way, Levy proved an engaging interview throughout.; Hopefully, it reads as fun as it was to conduct…