First of all I want to,
you look great by the way.
Oh thank you very much.
First of all, congratulations.
The office is a big success.
People love the show
and we take a little bit of pride here at late night
because you don't realize Mindy,
you started as an intern on our show.
Yeah I was a script intern here.
Script intern on our program.
How long ago was that?
I'm trying to think.
I think it was six years ago.
Six years ago.
And so now you've gone on obviously
to bigger and better things.
Tell us just a little bit,
what was it like interning here?
Did you, was it a good experience?
Yeah. Interning here was so much fun.
I think it's like a prerequisite now
on the office that you have to intern here
because between me
and John Krasinski and Angela Kinsey.
This is not a joke.
This is true.
Other interns on our show
and also populating the cast of The office.
John Krasinski started as an intern on our show.
Angela Kinsey started as an intern on our show.
And then Mindy you're also on the program.
You started as an intern.
Other little known interns that went on to big things.
Harrison Ford was an intern on our show.
Morgan Freeman was an intern here for awhile
and Charlton Heston started with us back in the forties.
I was with Charlton.
He was insufferable.
He's a bad guy yeah.
He was terrible.
Actually my favorite story of when I was interning here
was actually a moment with you
where I was carrying all these scripts
and I got into the elevator
and it was just you and I
you stepped in,
it was you and I in the elevator
and you to be polite said, Oh, what's your major?
And I blurted out art history
which was not my major
because I was so nervous.
Why did you lie to me?
I don't know.
I was so nervous.
I was just, I was petrified.
And then you were like, Oh, that's very interesting.
And you had like a follow-up question.
It was like, Oh, the Venus of Willendorf.
And I was sitting there like,
please God let this elevator ride end.
Why have I lied like this so badly.
This makes me sound like
the most boring elevator mate in the world.
Oh yes art history.
Let me ask you charters, cryptics, the 15th century.
The elevator door's opened and I like bolted out.
You ran away.
That usually happens with me and interns.
They're like, I've got to get away
from this horrible, horrible man.
So then you had success right away.
Shortly after interning here,
you sold a pilot.
Is that right?
Yes.
I wrote a pilot with my best friend
and writing partner, Brenda
and we wrote this show called Mindy and Brenda
which was the story of our lives in Brooklyn
before I moved to LA
and we were really excited about it.
But then the WV, they said
we thought we were going to be playing the parts.
And then they said, Oh no we're going to audition the parts
of Mindy and Brenda.
And we had to go in
and audition for our own parts after ourselves.
And we didn't get the parts.
Wait, so you wrote it
you wrote it about yourselves for yourselves
The character's names were Mindy and Brenda.
and then you had to audition and you didn't get it.
No, we were considered not convincing enough
as Mindy and Brenda.
So that was my first experience.
And so like, when we, when the cast of The Office
won the Screen Actors Guild last week,
I was, Oh, I guess like I'm not so bad
at playing other parts.
Just not myself apparently.
You can't play yourself.
No I can't.
I'm curious,
Steve Carell, he's been on the show many times,
seems like a great guy,
is he fun?
And I got to work with him a little here and there.
Is he fun to work with?
Yeah.
Steve's reputation is that he's the nicest guy in Hollywood.
And he actually is.
And I, my favorite interaction with him once is
that my boyfriend at the time
bared passing resemblance to him.
And so I ran up to him from behind and I grabbed him
and was like, hey baby.
And I kissed the back of his neck.
And Steve was like, hey baby.
Like, that was like a private joke we had
or something instead of being like,
get the hell off of me.
So he took it.
He reacted well.
He went with it.
That's good.
Yeah he was totally sweet.
And then I had to go around and pretend like
Hey baby was something I did to perfect strangers.
Yeah.
He's a nice guy.