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During a Thursday appearance on Live! With Kelly and Michael, new dad Ryan Reynolds joked that his 1-month-old daughter with Blake Lively is not a child prodigy.

“Everyone thinks their baby’s a genius,” Reynolds, 38, said. “People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, ‘My baby? Totally average. 100 percent average.’”

The Voices star went on to say that he had a friend whose child was reciting passages from Anton Chekhov.

“That baby’s a genius,” he said. “And probably — let’s be honest — a bit of an a–hole. Smart kid, but keep him away from me.”

The Canadian actor and the Gossip Girl alum, 27, welcomed their first child (whose moniker has not been revealed, but is a family name) shortly before the New Year.

When Ripa said he smelled like baby powder, the proud new dad said, “Yeah, that’s not going to change anytime soon. If I don’t get any sleep soon, I’ll change that to arsenic.”

Although exhausted, it sounds like he’s enjoying every minute of new fatherhood.

“I’m happily not getting any sleep. These days I just sort of think of blinking as taking tiny little naps all day,” he quipped. “It’s what you do. You’re up all night, but it’s weird — you’re, like, happy about it in a strange way. If anything else woke up every 45 minutes during the night, demanding to see my wife’s breasts, you kill it. But, you know, a baby, you’re like, ‘Aw, woohoo!’”