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[Conan] Thank you for being here.
[Lauren Graham] Thank you for having me.
You look fantastic.
Thank you, oh thanks,
I enjoy your Christmas decorations.
(laughter)
What do you mean? You mean, you're saying that
almost as if you don't really,
I think they're quite pretty this year.
They are quite pretty well, in their own way.
Although these look like polyps
like intestinal problems here that have grown
that are colorful and pretty and celebrating Christmas.
But yeah, I like them.
Yeah, no, I like them too.
I don't decorate much for the holidays, uh
so I'm in tune with your decorations.
Uh okay. I'm taking that as a terrible slam.
What do you mean, what do you mean you don't decorate?
Why don't you decorate?
Um, I just feel like, you know,
I don't have a lot of ornaments.
Like, I haven't, I don't have a family,
and so, like the only thing I could ornament
would be like one of those short trees,
which I feel like just screams "I'm single"
Right.
You know?
Actually they make them now,
ones that actually do scream "you're single."
Right
(laughter)
They have two AA batteries.
Right
What's going on? Why is there no fun
in your life?
There's no, but I,
I never like all those years that I was single and living
alone when I was working in show in LA and here in New York,
I never decorated.
Yeah
You sort of need another person.
When you decorate on your own, it gets kind of sad.
Yeah. Like I found I was shopping the
the other day cause I keep trying, you know,
and I was looking at these really cute stockings and I was
with a friend. I was like, how about these three?
Or what about these three? And she was like,
who are the three for.
(Conan laughs)
Just awful.
I like your friend who,
the other store you're tragically alone.
I know what kind of friend is that.
But then the thing I do have is my stepmother got,
you know, the nativity scene
because Catholic and from the Vatican in
Rome, which is like, it's a really beautiful, fancy,
you know, thing with all the,
but there's something kind of oddly dollhouse-y you know,
when you're like setting up a nativity scene
by yourself in your house.
And so I find myself making the people do bad things.
Maybe we don't want to know exactly
what you're having them do.
What is hilarious?
Like what's funnier than the donkey and the cradle. Right?
Right. Right
I hear people getting offended all over America right now.
A sound I've heard before, by the way.
No, you know what?
We had a big nativity scene, obviously I'm Catholic.
I grew up outside Boston and we had to, you know,
we went to church every, every day,
four times a day, but you were great at that last mass,
this one's even better.
And they had a giant, a big, pretty big size nativity scene.
And every year, some wise guy would take the baby.
Cause all the other statutes are leaning and praying and
like looking down at the baby Jesus and being really
reverent every year,
some guy would take the baby Jesus and put like a dollar
bill there. So everyone in the nativity scene's like, oh,
freedom, money, whatever.
And then the priest would get really mad, say, all right,
give it back.
And someone have to come and put it back
and just wacky Catholic stuff from when we were children.
Well, it's funny because, well, anyway, so that's.
What happened. Some mood altering drugs,
just kick in for you.
It's so funny. Anyway.
Because I could keep going about like, you know,
like you have the baby Jesus like crawling away to safety or
like, you know, see why I stopped.
Yeah. I'm going to make you go on.
And what else would the baby Jesus do? I'm curious.
I want nine scenarios right now.
Yeah, so that's just my decorating
It's sad.
Now you shoot the show in Los Angeles. And I'm curious,
the big thing for LA celebrities to do is I've never done it
myself because I'm not out there,
but you go to a Lakers game and you hang out and you sit
right on the sidelines and that's kind of the big thing to
do out there. Isn't it?
Yeah. Well it's, I mean,
everything in LA feels like a weird schmooze Fest. You know,
you can't, it's the grocery store.
That's the cool thing to do. Like it's all anywhere you go.
But I went to one of my first Laker games where I had some
fancy persons seats, not on the floor,
but this row right behind the floor,
but still like the floor is the, is all the fancy,
fancy people. And I came down,
I was a little late and who turns from the floor seats,
but Steven Spielberg and his lovely wife, Kate Capshaw.
And they smiled at me,
I thought,
but then I'm not going to be the person the first time at
the Lakers game. Who's like, me? hi, hi Spielberg's
like, like a freak.
I not only didn't smile back,
but I kind of glowered at them angrily like shut up Steven
Spielberg or something.
I hope you didn't say shut up Steven Spielberg because he
could push a button and make all of us go away.
No, but I sort of like,
I looked at them and then after they turned back around,
I looked around and I think they were smiling me.
And then later somebody said, you know,
they have kids who like the show and.
So they actually did recognize you?
He was smiling at me and now, you know,
they just walk around thinking that's that mean mom from TV
and right.
I'm not putting her in Schindler's list two or whatever.
I don't think there's going to be a Schindler's list two.
(laughter)
all right. Well, Gilmore girls,
which everyone loves this show. I mean, it's a great show.
It's always on the list of like one of the three best shows.
So good for you airs Tuesday nights at eight on the WB.
That's true.
Also your name is Lauren Graham and today is 12/20.
Oh. But anyway,
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Lauren Graham, everybody.
Yeah! We'll be right back.