A Shore Thing

Shore — performing stand-up on Saturday at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay — has dated "Beverly Hills, 90210" actress Tiffani Thiessen, the late porn megastar Savannah Wilsey, British pop star Kylie Minogue, plus Jillian Grace (the Playmate who birthed David Spade’s baby last year).

Shore also flung with former wrestler Tiffany Million, porn star Jewel De’Nyle, Charles Bronson’s daughter Katrina, plus Playmates, wannabe-Playmates and non-Playmates.

The comedian and actor’s reputation is so cemented that three years ago, Howard Stern (who’s friendly with Shore) made a naked girl in a contest swear to God she would never get it on with Shore, Scott Baio or James Caan (according to MarksFriggin.com).

Naturally, the question I pose to Shore is, will he share his secrets regarding women for the sake of men around the world? Sure, he says. It’s simple advice.

"You gotta get a sense of humor, bro," Shore, 41, tells me. "Girls don’t like to feel — not threatened — but uncomfortable. They just like it when everything’s cool, because there are so many creepy guys out there.

"If you’re just yourself, and you make them laugh, dude, I think that’s the key."

Guys shouldn’t use bad opening lines, he says. He doesn’t.

"It’s like stand-up. Your first line — you never know what it’s gonna be," he says. "You just gotta say a funny comment so you make ’em laugh."

Some women try to play it cool around Shore, he says.

"The best is when girls pretend they don’t know who I am. And they go, ‘What’s your name?’ And then I straightly go, ‘Pauly.’ And then they go, ‘Oh, I know who you are!’ And then," he jokes, "I go, ‘You’re an idiot,’ and I walk away."

Shore won’t tell me how many women he’s seduced.

"No comment," he says.

But he will talk about the time he hit on Monica Lewinsky as she sat alone in an L.A. bar. Shore walked up, said hello and got her phone number. He joked about her weight. She didn’t laugh. They chatted on the phone a few times, but she eventually changed her number.

He never got close to Chelsea Clinton, but he did make her angry by talking about her sex life.

"I performed at her college several years ago," he says. "I was just like: ‘Who’s (sleeping with) Chelsea Clinton here?’ … She must have a boyfriend. Someone’s banging her."

A friend of Shore’s — Bumble Bee tuna heir Evan Metropoulos — is a friend of Chelsea’s; he told Shore that Chelsea wasn’t thrilled about the joke. Why not?

"It’s the president’s daughter, dude. I guess that’s why," Shore says and chuckles.

Shore’s activities with the ladies helped contribute to a bad back. He hosted a party at Lavo at Palazzo this past New Year’s Eve, post-surgery, in a wheelchair.

"It would be weird for me not to have back surgery, with my lifestyle in my 20s — like running around, and traveling, and fat chicks. You know what I mean? Right?

"So it got to a point where I couldn’t walk. I had a pinched nerve in my L5-S1." (That’s where the sacrum meets the lumbar spine.)

At Lavo, he says, "My friend rolls me up in a wheelchair. And they’re, like, ‘We paid for the party version of Pauly Shore, not the Larry Flynt, crippled Pauly.’

"That’s the last person you want to host your party for New Year’s Eve — some guy in a wheelchair. You know what I mean? It’s a little creepy."

Shore isn’t all about girls and their effects on his back. He’s got three movie and TV projects coming out this fall. One is a Showtime comedy special. Then, in a "G"-rated film called "Opposite Day," he plays a father.

And he’s starring in "Adopted," a mockumentary where he travels to Africa to adopt a child.

To put locals at ease in Africa, Shore used skills similar to picking up women.

"It’s about how you approach people. If you’re sketchy, they’re gonna be sketchy. It’s almost like being around a cat. You ever walk into a girl’s apartment and she has a cat? You’re either mellow and the cat’s cool — or you’re sketchy and the cat starts freaking out. That’s how the people were in Africa."

He does have another project. For a 2010 Adam Sandler-penned comedy, "Born to Be a Star," Shore portrays the host of the porn awards, which in real life may be the one thing he’s never done with porn stars.

"I’ve been (to the porn awards), but I’ve never participated. … I assume there’s some type of synergy between me and the porn world," he says. "I made my mark over there."

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