(crowd cheering)
[Conan] How are ya?
Shh! Huh?
Oh, I'm sorry, I have to wait
until they all finish cheering.
Cheer some more, everybody!
(crowd cheering)
There you go.
Thanks! Thank you. (Conan laughing)
You don't have a shyness thing or a modesty thing at all.
I know, can you imagine?
You like that, you like that a lot.
How are you? You look great.
I'm good, thanks. I feel good.
Yeah, you look terrific.
I wanna talk about something right here at the top
and then we'll talk about Saturday Night Live
that you're hosting, which is, I think, really exciting.
And it's gonna be a great show.
But I wanted to say, the last time I saw you--
Lisa and I have been friends for years,
she may deny it, but we've been friends for like, ten years.
Last time I was in Los Angeles
to do The Tonight Show, I wanna stop by
and see you so I stop by on the set--
Right.
Of the movie that you're shooting
with Mira Sorvino. Right.
Alright? And you had a little Game Boy
that you were playing with. Yes.
And at one point, you hand it to me--
Uh huh.
And you say, "Can you hold this
while I shoot this scene with Mira Sorvino?"
Yes.
So I suddenly become the nerd who holds the Game Boy,
(Lisa laughing) while you're shooting a movie.
I have to put you in your place.
Yeah. (Conan laughing)
Very good, it worked.
Alright, so I'm sitting there,
no, she's right, I really do--
[Lisa] Hey, no, oh--
No, no, but I'm sitting there holding the Game Boy
looking like a freak, just holding it
while the big stars are doing their movie,
and then I have to go, because I gotta go
to The Tonight Show and the scene's going on
for quite awhile, so I put the Game Boy down.
[Lisa] Yeah, whatever.
Yeah, and I-- (Conan laughing)
You gotta hear this, because this is a bit
of a problem here, I put the Game Boy down
and I tell somebody, "That's Lisa Kudrow's Game Boy,
I gotta go, if she needs it."
I guess the person didn't work on the movie,
and I cause a huge incident because later I'm in Burbank,
I'm about to do The Tonight Show,
like forty people come rushing up to me and say,
"Where is Lisa Kudrow's Game Boy?"
And it creates this huge, agents are involved,
people are screaming, "Where is it? What have you done?
Who the hell do you think you are?"
I was beaten up at one point. (crowd laughing)
It was just this whole incident,
and I'm like, what was the big deal?
It was my Game Boy.
(Conan laughing) [Conan] Well, what?
I don't know, but I had also
for the next two or three hours
after you left, I had people coming up to me like,
"Okay." (Lisa exhaling)
"We're trying to find your Game Boy."
(Conan laughing) Like really, really serious.
It's like, "We think we've tracked it to Jay Leno.
We've got someone on it and I can't tell you
how sorry I am."
I was like, "Alright."
No, but I mean, this was, I thought,
an indication of how successful you are,
what a big story you've become.
If I lose something, I could lose my spleen,
I couldn't get anyone to go looking for it.
There'd be no one, like, "Just find it yourself, alright?"
Yeah, that's a movie, movies do that.
Oh, okay, it's a much bigger deal.
Yeah, and the show, it's... a little better.
Wow, alright. (Conan whistling)
No, you do, and that's cool, everything's going well,
and I gotta mention, I wanna talk to you,
because I've known you for so long.
I didn't meet your husband for awhile.
Because I didn't get out to Los Angeles.
I finally met your husband, he's a really cool, nice guy.
Yeah. His name's Michel.
He's a Frenchman. Yeah.
I didn't know what to expect
when you told me, "I married a Frenchman."
I expected, beret, he's riding a bicycle,
he's wearing a striped shirt. (crowd and Lisa laughing)
He has a big French roll in the seat.
And he does all that, he does that.
No, he does. He walks with a big baguette all the time.
(Conan and crowd laughing)
Yeah, he's the real cliche, yeah.
And he talks like Pepé Le Pew,
which I thought was really stunning.
But he does seem like a very nice guy, though.
He is, he's as sweet as pie.
He's great, he's great.
[Conan] And-- Yeah, what?
Things are going well?
Oh, things are going great, things are going really great.
He's really happy, it's like now he can
finally relax because we got married
and now he gets his green card. Yay!
(crowd laughing)
Well, it's really stressful, he would always complain
about how immigration is a very stressful
thing to deal with, and I would think,
"What a wimp, come on, just like, big deal."
He was always nervous about the big interview
we had to do. What do you mean "big deal"?
"Big deal, you might get kicked out of the United States
and never be able to return, what's your problem, wimp?"
Well, yeah! It is a big deal.
No, but just having to deal with these people,
he'd always say, "They're difficult,
they're so mean to you."
I'm like, "Oh my god, you're so paranoid."
Wouldn't validate it at all.
So we go in for our meeting, and he's really nervous
and I couldn't be more relaxed, I don't care,
when's this gonna be over, I have to go to work.
[Conan] Uh huh, uh huh.
And we go in there and they really are scary, mean people.
[Conan] Really?
We sit down and the man says,
"Okay, so I need some ID, please."
And he's just staring dead at you
like you're about to pull something on me
and I'm gonna catch it.
I'm like, "Okay."
So, Michel hands over his ID and then I hand--
my purse had just gotten stolen,
so I didn't actually have a picture ID.
And I said, "Well, I've got a credit card and this stuff."
He's like, "Mm-hmm, this is not the same name
as your husband's." [Conan] Right.
I was like, "No, I have to keep my name for my career."
And he was like, "Mm-hmm. What would that be?"
(crowd and Conan laughing)
He hadn't seen the show or anything?
I guess not. I said, "Well, I'm an actor."
And he's like, "Alright, whatever."
And I thought, "Wow, this is gonna be really tricky."
I had no picture ID, he wanted to see mail.
My mail doesn't come to our address
so it doesn't even look like we have the same address.
[Conan] Mm-hmm.
And I could not prove who I was
and he wouldn't believe it.
And we finally whipped out magazine articles and stuff.
Like, "We have this."
(Conan laughing)
Here, I'm on the cover of People Magazine, look at that!
In the wedding gown, and he's with me.
And the guy was just like,
"I'm sorry. Would I have seen you in anything?"
I said, "A TV show, Friends?"
And he went, "Oh, alright. Oh, I've seen that.
Well, that makes things a little bit... Well, okay!"
All of a sudden, it was like a party!
(crowd and Conan laughing) (crowd clapping)
It's true.
The Friends theme kicked in and you were all dancing
in a fountain, really? Yeah. We all became--
(Lisa singing Friends theme song)
(Conan laughing)
That's the musical word for "Friends" now.
Uh huh.
You don't have to say the word anymore,
did you know that? [Conan] No.
Oh no, you don't have to say the word,
you just go, "Oh yeah, no, we're close,
we've become really good--"
(Lisa singing Friends theme song)
(crowd and Conan laughing)
You use that to communicate now with people?
I communicate in music.
A new level of psychosis, alright,
well, let's talk about this, Saturday Night Live, this week.
This is great, you're perfect to do this.
I knew you for years doing sketches
in The Groundlings-- Uh huh.
And everything like that.
I'm really excited you're doing it.
Yeah, me too.
Except what I realized is the stuff I did
in The Groundlings-- [Conan] Mm-hmm.
Wouldn't work well on Saturday Night Live.
It doesn't actually work well.
[Conan] What do you mean?
Well, my characters were so--
Saturday Night Live is fun, broad, happy characters.
All my stuff was like--
my favorite character was an actress on a talk show.
I did that stuff. [Conan] Right, right.
I thought it was funny.
That's not a good character for Saturday Night Live?
I don't think so, I mean, I thought
it was funny at the time, but it's kind of
a low-key character who's just--
well, I'll do it for you, if you want.
[Conan] Yeah, let's see it! (crowd cheering)
So the name of the character is "Actress On A Talk Show"?
Yeah, I was very creative with my character names.
Good name, okay.
She was just really phony, and like,
"Hello, hello, oh hello. Hello."
That's all she would say, and like,
"Yeah, it's been a long time since I've done anything.
Just because of the surgery I had
and thanks for all the cards and letters you sent.
Really helped, it really did. Thanks. Thank you."
And then you just pursue what happened to her,
why she had surgery, and she's like, "Well."
(Lisa inhaling)
"Alright, I had had a severe tonsillitis."
(crowd laughing)
"And they had to actually remove both of my tonsils.
No, it's hard, it's about 'who am I now?'"
(crowd laughing)
You don't know how often I'm sitting here
with people that are actually like that.
I know, I've always been afraid
that people will think that's how I really am.
That's what my life is like. Alright.
I'm really looking forward to this,
I think a lot of people are.
Of course, Friends Thursday at 8:00 on NBC,
as if I had to mention it.
And you're hosting Saturday Night Live this week
with musical guest Sheryl Crow
and I think that's very cool.
Lisa, thanks so much for coming back.
Thank you! We love having you.
Lisa Kudrow, everybody! (crowd cheering)