How are you doing?
I'm good!
Yeah?
Yeah!
(audience cheering)
I've never been here before.
(audience cheering)
Are they-
Welcome to our humble little show.
Are they holding up cards saying applause?
Yeah. We have a card that goes,
"Ow!"
(audience laughing)
People read it.
Now, thanks very much for coming.
Thank you. Good to be here.
When was the first Scream?
Didn't seem like that was that long ago even,
was it a year ago?
No. Two years ago?
It felt like four minutes ago.
It was a year ago. Exactly, right now.
And then they are making this new one,
which they promise is much scarier than the first one.
Is that right?
Yes.
Sequels always have to be scarier
and there has to be a larger body count.
There has to be, you know,
there's like a certain things
that you have to do for sequels.
More death this time around.
A lot more death, yeah.
Just in time for the holidays.
Yeah!
(audience laughing)
Now they use the same convention, I guess,
in this movie that they had in the first one,
which is the killer is calling on a cellular phone.
Is that right?
Yes. He does like to communicate through a cellular phone.
Yeah. He's familiar with all the ladies technology.
Yes.
(audience laughing)
Does he,
I'm curious, who's the guy who does that voice
in the movie, in this, in Scream 2.
Who's the guy who's the killer's voice?
Well, it's interesting because West Craven, our director,
wouldn't tell us who the voice was.
I mean, where the voice was coming from.
And he actually the,
I've talked so much this week.
I honestly can't talk anymore.
That's how bad it is.
Let's stop the show right here then!
Okay
Good night everybody.
I'll see you.
Wow lucky us!
Yeah. Wouldn't that be great?
Anyway, he wouldn't let us see who the killer,
the voice was.
Because he didn't want to de-mystify it or anything.
So we were doing this one scene
where it was David Arquette and Jamie Kennedy and myself,
and we were talking and the killer's voice
comes on the cellular phone.
And between takes,
you get like the real urge to talk to the guy.
Like who was this guy? Yeah.
Yeah.
So, you know, and I pick up the phone and to say,
What are you wearing?
(audience laughing)
He be like,
"Die bitch."
Then I'll be like, "All right buddy! Thanks." (laughs)
What?
I mean just, yeah.
He would stay in character?
Yeah.
Oh my God. That's horrible.
Yeah.
So he's pretty crazy.
Yeah, I would think so.
Now you had some, I guess some spare time in the movie,
I heard that you got a tattoo on the movie set
or while you were shooting the film?
Yeah.
I did. I got a tattoo in Atlanta.
Well, you know, you, it starts to rain for a couple of days
and then-
Oh no, no.
It starts to rain for a couple of days, you play boggle.
That's only you.
(audience laughing)
I know. It crazy because-
I have a different thought process than you.
And I'll go, "It's raining! Tattoo."
That's what it's time for.
Where did you get the tattoo?
I got next to my belly button.
Oh!
It's a little (audience cheers drown out speaker)
(audience cheering)
She just said belly button.
I mean, that's a thing.
That's where the umbilical locks up. (cheers)
(audience cheering)
it's right.
I apologize on behalf of America,
but you know how hormones and kids.
But what is the tattoo of?
It's of a little, it's of a Gemini signal.
Oh!
It's white. It's a little white tattoo.
I've actually had two other ones-
Wait, wait, what's a white tattoo?
It's white.
It's white ink.
What do you mean? I've never heard of that.
Is there such a thing such as a white tattoo?
You have to be relatively,
you have to have a little color in here,
otherwise you won't see, because it really is just white.
So I could literally be covered with
white tattoos.
(audience laughing)
I could have like a whole kiss mask, Gene Simmons thing
in white.
And you only see it if there's a purple light bulb
hanging in the room.
Wow! Conan's cool.
Light bulb's off, no, he's not.
(audience laughing)
He's that lovable nerd again.
All right.
I've never heard of a white tattoo.
Yeah, it's just, it's white ink they put it in.
It's good because then you can cover it up easily
if you have to.
You have other tattoos then, you have?
Yes.
But that's the kind of the strange part about it,
is I have two other ones that I've had removed
because I'm the kind of person
that will do something on a whim
and think why did I do that?
Yeah.
And then I'll have it removed.
And I actually liked my first tattoo
cost me about $30 to put on.
And it's so expensive to have them lasered off.
How do they do it? It's really kind of stupid.
Oh, they laser it off?
Yeah.
That's insane. I know.
That would hurt so much.
I know, but this one I will keep forever.
'Cause it's small and-
Who gets the tattoo when you're done with it?
I mean,
(audience laughing)
no, seriously.
They like they sell like celebrities clothes now
that are used.
Right. So like my scabs and stuff.
Yeah right.
I think they talked to them, puts them in a little box.
Courtney Cox's tattoo. Cool.
Bang.
But they took it off with a laser?
Yeah.
That'd be, I wouldn't do it.
It hurts, really it does hurt.
So maybe all white tattoos from now on.
Or don't get them at all.
Good message for the kids.
Yeah.
If it's raining, play boggle.
I think that's the message for kids.
There's something we should probably discuss.
You and I were linked romantically in the tabloids.
Yes I remember.
Which was probably not great news for you,
as great for me.
(audience laughing)
But let's first of all put this thing up
so people know we're not kidding.
This came out, I don't know a couple of months ago.
You actually flipped for Conan O'Brien.
That's my favorite. You can put it down now.
That's all right.
That's hanging on my wall, by the way.
(audience laughing)
But I was-
How much did I get for that?
How much did I get for it?
No. Well come on now.
I was shocked by this thing first of all,
because of the implausibility of the whole thing.
It said you flipped for my red hair and freckles.
First of all, you don't have red hair.
No, it's got like a reddish, slight reddish tint,
but it's really not that red.
No.
And second of all, I don't see you like flipping for,
"He's got red hair and freckles!"
(audience laughing)
I'll break up with Carrot Top and go out with him. You know?
It didn't seem like that plausible.
But I'm curious, this happens,
you have to understand this happens to you.
I can't believe that's not even nice to yourself.
Why?
I'm a self-deprecating wit.
I've built a whole empire on it.
All right, I won't stop you now.
Yeah.
There's a narrow shell of self-deprecating humor,
and then inside that there's just like
55 pounds of pure ego.
That's right.
Okay. I won't blow your whole thing, I'm sorry.
Please. I've worked this whole thing out.
Ha ha. Mwah.
Now,
you are, but like this,
you're romantically linked to people all the time.
This was a big deal for me,
because the only, this is a true story.
The only tabloid story that I had had before this one,
was a little blip in The Globe that said,
"Conan O'Brien doesn't wash his hands
after he uses the bathroom."
(audience laughing)
I'm serious.
So I went-
There was also the, you have high cholesterol
Oh there was. Yeah!
That other shocking tidbit. (O'Brien laughing)
It just shows you like how important I am to the tabloids.
But what was funny is that this thing,
I went from that, to you have completely flipped over me,
and you were an I are at some cafe
munching on veggie burgers deeply in love.
And I just wanted to thank you.
I don't know what happened,
(audience laughing)
but it just, I got a couple of people from high school
calling me up saying like,
"Is this true you and Courtney Cox?"
And I was, "Nah, it's not really true."
(audience laughing)
Wink.
(audience laughing)
But do you get used to that?
I mean, this stuff happens to you all the time.
Yeah I don't even read them anymore.
You don't even read them.
No, that one I read, and I thought it was very funny.
(everyone laughing)
Wait a minute, that one was so comically ridiculous
you had to read it?
That one I put in my (indistinct)
No!
Oh no, stop. Please.
It's too- He likes this.
Yeah, please.
Please.
No, I have read it because-
This is two people that are very attracted to each other
goofing around.
Now what?
Because we've been mutual friends.
Exactly.
Exactly. Yeah
That's why it was actually true.
Yeah, exactly.
Don't worry about it.
You'll see.
You're writing a book, I understand?
or you're thinking about writing a book?
I should write a book.
You should write a book.
Yeah.
I wanna write a book that's called
"What Pisses Me Off," by Courtney Cox.
Really?
Yeah
Is this it?
Well-
Just like tidbits.
Don't you ever like aren't there are a thousand things
that you just, everybody can relate to,
that you're just piss you off.
Well, not a thousand, but yeah.
Yeah, there are things that irritate all of us.
What kind of things are you talking about?
Okay, like I would like to have sections in my book
that would be, you know, maybe like men or this,
well there'd be certain sections,
but like numbers, for instance.
Uh-huh.
I won't stick on that.
'Cause you're gonna like boo me again. (chuckles)
No, no, no.
This show has become a lot like American Gladiators.
Don't ask me why.
(audience laughing)
But what do you mean like, what about men irritates you?
Not men, let me do my numbers thing,
because- Okay.
I don't think it would be safe to do the other one.
Okay.
Like numbers for instance,
have you ever got that someone
would leave a message on your machine or whatever,
and numbers go on rhythms.
So if your number is 3104712.
Right.
You can remember that.
Right.
But if on your machine they say,
and this happens sometimes,
they'll go, okay, please call it back
at 3, 417, 242, 3.
It's like, how can you remember that?
Like they run them all together?
That's what your complaint is?
Yeah. There's a whole other rhythm to it.
This is gonna be a thick book, isn't it?
It's gonna be a thick book.
(audience laughing)
No, if that I'm just thinking.
If the rhythm in which people
recite a phone number irritates you,
I would hate to cut you off in traffic. I wouldn't.
Yeah you would.
I would.
What would you do?
I'd keep my windows open, I mean up.
Because I'm obviously not big enough
to do anything about it.
But I would scream very loud.
You scream?
I get very frustrated in traffic.
Would you ram my car if I cut you off?
No.
'Cause that would just be stupid from my end.
Okay. Right, right.
So you would just scream and scream at me.
Yeah.
I lose my temper when I'm driving.
Right. Okay.
Let's talk. I've learnt to-
What?
I mean, I've learned to control it somewhat
because I-
You have a bad temper.
I have a, yeah.
You have an Irish temper.
Yeah. Do you?
I have a really bad temper which people don't know.
Do you forget things though afterwards?
Or do you move on?
Do you mean do I black out and commit murder?
(audience laughing)
Yeah. I get really mad.
You're all gonna!
And then I black out and I wake up,
and there's blood on my hands.
(audience laughing)
And I say, "No, it's terrible!"
(audience applauding)
That's exactly what I meant.
You know, no, you do get bitter,
and all you get mad, and people don't know that I guess
when they see your persona.
I do get, I get,
there are certain things that bother me.
Like I want the show to be right. And stuff like that.
So, you know, I can have a little bit of a temper there.
Very true.
Let's talk about your,
this intrigued me because you're so busy.
You're making movies,
you're doing friends.
You must have a really busy schedule.
And then on top of it all,
you write for a magazine.
Which I didn't know.
I have a little helpful hints column in a magazine.
"How to Control Your Temper."
(everyone laughing)
It's just a little, it's in Jane Magazine.
And Jane Pratt's a friend of mine and it's a great magazine.
And in the back of it I have a little column
that I like well, you know, how to do certain things.
Like it could be stupid things
from how to get wax off of a table.
You know, when candles drip.
Right.
I was just thinking of one actually the other day
for women.
If you're shiny, like your face is very. (chuckles)
If you're shiny.
Yeah women understand that.
You mean like if you have like an oily skin.
Is that what you mean?
Or, you know, let's say you need powder,
because I know you might get powder later on this evening.
(audience laughing)
Yes, yes. Yeah.
I don't know. Yes.
Come on, when your face is a little shiny.
No wait a minute.
No, I mean, you do things for TV,
but it's not like I'm in a restaurant or something.
Well maybe not for you,
that's why I said it's for girls.
Although this would be a helpful hint for you too.
Although yeah, okay. I do that.
I mean men have like, okay forget I said it was for girls.
Okay
Like, you know, those toilet seat things
that you sit on top of when you pull down the paper?
When you fly.
Oh no, we're gonna get this.
I know what a toilet seat is. Yeah.
I got that. What toilet seat things?
Oh, the paper you pull off the ring, the sanitary ring
that covers the toilet seat.
That paper is perfect for dabbing your face.
Not after you sit on it, okay?
(audience laughing)
I know someone's gonna say something.
This is a tough show, man.
(O'Brien laughing)
No wonder David Arquette
has to be like pull chickens out and stuff.
We don't make him do that.
Believe me, he comes up with that.
But anyway, that paper is useful for getting-
Yes for like touching your face
and it will absorb the oil.
How did someone find that out?
That's what I'm curious about.
And also right before I came on here,
my hair was like piecing and there wasn't any water,
so I put my hand and I realized that Coke
is perfect like hairspray.
I did it right before I came out.
So you're like with sort of a weird MacGyver
kind of thing.
Exactly.
(audience laughing)
I might be it.
You're backstage you're like
pouring a little Coke on your hair
and you've got a sanitary toilet seat cover.
(audience laughing)
Ready to go.
This chewing gum should cover up those bags.
(O'Brien laughing)
That's not a bad idea.
Hey!
That's great.
Does chewing gum work to cover up bags under the eyes?
No, but I can imagine like a little back here.
(everyone laughing)
Oh my God.
Well, Scream 2 opens this Friday.
I've heard great things about it.
And Friends, like we even have to promote this,
but we will.
Friends, every Thursday at 8 o'clock PM right here on NBC.
Congratulations. Thank you
Continue to success Thanks.
And come on back sometime.
All right. Thank you.
All right, good to see you.
Thank you, Courtney.
Courtney Cox, everybody.
(audience applauding)