Comedian Jason Sudeikis chats about his turns on TV and in the movies

If you spot a guy who’s a dead ringer for Saturday Night Live’s Jason Sudeikis and he lets you on an elevator first, he may well be the TV-turned-movie star.

“I get occasional looks of surprise” from women, the Kansan says of his polite Midwestern values. “They’re like, ‘You’re gonna let me on here and then cut the rope?’”

Sudeikis, 35, co-stars with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman in the new movie comedy Horrible Bosses, about a trio of guys who work together to murder their employers. We chatted with the comedian:

Leading man. He’s torn on picking his dream leading lady. “I assume they’ll all read this, so I can’t say just Anne Hathaway or Amy Adams, then Kate Winslet gets furious. And then what would Meryl Streep do?”

Pretty bad bosses. “I’ve had issues with people I’ve worked for. Nothing as strong as wanting to murder them.”

On-screen veep. He has won Joe Biden’s thumbs-up on his famed VP impersonation. To master the look, Sudeikis dons dentures: “He’s got a better pair of choppers than I do.”

Basketball star. He played college ball and still gets outside with friends, but mostly it’s just on his Xbox 360 playing online with pals. “I just play video games and watch games on television and point out what the people are doing wrong — like any armchair point guard.”

Comedic guru. One life lesson he learned doing improv: the importance of listening. “The easiest way to make jokes about something is to listen to what was just said about it.”