I was sitting behind you
at the final Conan show at Largo,
which we luckily got to do a few live shows,
before the show ended.
And the last one, at Largo,
was really emotional, and it was so sweet at the end.
Conan had a long list of thank you's to people,
and he gave a really sweet and heartfelt
thank you to you.
He did. So I was wondering
how you felt seeing that show,
if that was emotional for you?
It's made me emotional now.
Aww. (laughs)
I know.
It's funny because I was completely unprepared for that.
He's so...
There's like, I call it the separation of church and state.
Like in our life,
there's like his private life and then his job.
And they've just always been very delineated,
and that makes a lot of sense.
And so it does seem like
if there ever were going to be a moment
where he would talk publicly about something personal,
it's gonna be a moment like that,
but I still was sort of surprised by it,
I did not anticipate it.
I didn't know he was gonna say anything
about anything in particular.
I was really glad I had happened
to take a shower that day, (laughs)
(Jessie and Mike laughing)
'cause they were putting the camera on us and so-
Your hair smelled great.
Thank you. I did notice that.
I don't know, it was an emotional...
Argh, it's so,
the whole thing is so weird to have wound down
at the end of that strange COVID period,
was really weird. Right.
I Know.
So, I don't know,
it all felt very organic and authentic to him
and I liked that and I loved that I wasn't the only one
being singled out, you know, I loved that.
Sona got in there and-
He was trying to embarrass a lot of People.
That's exactly right, yes.
I was in good company.
Yeah. So- I know, he did a big windup,
but was like, "But the one person I have to think the most,"
and I was like, okay, this better be Liza. (laughs)
I thought it was gonna be Bill Tull from props.
(Jessie laughs)
I mean, I literally,
it could have been his mother
and I wouldn't have been surprised, you know.
I was not, even at that point in the windup,
I was like, okay, let's see who this is gonna be about.
(Liza and Jessie laugh)
I don't know.
So yeah, very, very sweet of him, though.
Oh they had asked the network
for more time because-
I know.
Wow!
The thank you, you know.
It was supposed to be a half hour show
and I think it ran 40 minutes, 10 minutes gushing about you.
I know. (Jessie laughs)
That's true.
Yes.
How has it been having him home
a little bit more? (laughs)
Well, again- I can answer that one.
Fantastic!
It's been great, what?
(Jessie laughs)
Again, I think if we hadn't just had
that weird lockdown period to sort of break us all in,
it might've been stranger,
but there hasn't been that big a change.
And, you know, we're still going off to do podcasting stuff
and he's still bothering Mike Sweeney a lot
and Matt O'Brien a lot.
So I for years was terrified of the loss of that structure.
You know that it really was such an organizing principle
in our lives and we relied on it in a way,
even though it could be like too confining sometimes.
But it hasn't been a huge shift.
And also, you know, we're at a point in our family life
where it's great that he's around
to like drive someone somewhere if I need help with that,
or, you know, I've been kind of like only doing
the domestic stuff for so long
that to have him a little bit more available
for some of that is amazing.
Not too available.
You don't want him- Once you teach him
how to do things.
Yeah, well. (Jessie laughs)
Yeah, I mean,
I think my nightmare is that he'll realize
that everything I do is really not that hard. (chuckles)
I know.
He leaves the house and then hands the keys off
to somebody who's hired to drive the kids?
That's right. (laughs) (Jessie laughs)
Yeah.
Well, we used to compare notes
'cause back when I was head writer it's,
when you're the head writer,
you're kinda like the show wife.
Yes.
Yes, so.
That's right.
Yeah.
It's a bit- Yeah.
So you two have a special connection?
Mm-hmm.
And it's kind of a hot potato of,
"Oh, thank God, he's giving Mike a hard time right now,
because that means I'm out of the glare. (laughs)
And now it's Matt O'Brien.
So now- That's right.
Oh, yeah. He's the new sister wife.
No, he's like a bigamous now.
I'm like the older wife that he, you know.
You're the one, you don't have to worry about him
coming into the-
Right, he's respectful to me,
but his eyes don't light up the way they used to.
(Jessie laughs)
(Mike sighs) What can you do?
But the cute thing, I have to say,
the cutest thing right now is with Sona's babies.
We haven't even met them yet,
but he when they,
like in the final week or so of her pregnancy,
maybe a few weeks,
he was like a grandfather.
He was like, "I can't believe they're gonna be born
when I'm out of town.
I think I need to be there." Oh, that's sweet.
I was like, you do not need to be there.
She doesn't want you there.
Yeah. She wants nothing
to do with you right now, but he's so excited.
He shows me pictures of those kids
like more often than I think he may have ever looked
at pictures of our kids when they were that age.
They're so cute. They're really funny.
Oh my God!
It's amazing, yeah.
So that's a very sweet kind of foreshadowing, I think,
of how we might be as a grandparent.
As grand. Yeah.
Yeah.
What a sweetie pie.
Oh, isn't he just
a bundle of love. I know, I'm really
coming around on him.
Yeah. (Mike and Jessie laughs)
He's just all sweetness and life.