Tim Meadows is not a womanizer. He just plays one in the movies.

In fact, the actor behind the free-loving Leon Phelps is light-years different from his onscreen persona. While fans of Saturday Night Live have come to love his wacky characters and his comedic versatility, people around him describe Tim as a very cool dude - a normal guy who's just plain fun to hang around with. Crimson Arts recently got a chance to sit in on a conference call with the Ladies Man star and witness his normality first-hand.

The Harvard Crimson: Was the Ladies Man your own creation? Or did other people help you with it?

Tim Meadows: Actually, other people helped me. Dennis McNicholas, who was a Harvard Lampoon writer, and Andrew Steele, they came up with the idea of this guy who gives advice on love. So those guys came up with that aspect of the character, and I came up with the voice. I'd been doing this voice as a crank phone call to amuse my wife and myself, because I was leading a very boring life. I'd make calls to radio stations or call to order food or whatever, and I'd do this voice to sort of hide who I was, for a number of reasons. Because if I said I was Tim Meadows, the guy who came with the food would bring the cooks nephew waiting for autographs or something. So I was telling Andrew and Dennis a story about something that happened with that voice, and they thought it was really funny. They came up with that idea, and we just started improvising questions and answers.

THC: Who came up with that 70's motiff?

TM: Andrew and Dennis did, and the thing that I brought to it was the fact that I knew guys like Leon when I was younger. That's where I came up with the Courvoisier as his drink, and the fact that he likes romantic candles, and the fact that his advice is much more blunt than you would expect. We sort of just played with the idea that his advice had worked for him, but it might not necessarily work for other people. So when he tells women to go hang out at a bus station with no underpants, it's just something that he knows will work for him.