Alyson Hannigan on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"
July 9, 1999
(promoting "American Pie")

C-My next guest tonight, plays, uh, Willow on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and starting tomorrow, she can be seen in the brand new movie, "American Pie."  Please welcome, Alyson Hannigan.
(Alyson enters)
C-How are you?
A-Great, how are you?
C-You look terrific.
A-Thank you.
C-Love that dress.
A-I’m a little cold, but whatever
C-We keep it, for some reason, 40 degrees here. I don’t know why. How’ve you been? Everything good
A ? Ah, yes.  Now I love the band, but I have to ask  Cuz my boyfriend and I have a little debate going.  We’re a little concerned about the wherabouts of Max because now….
C-Max Weinberg
A-Right. I’m…I remember you saying he was going on tour, but my boyfriend who is also a drummer is very concerned that he has Carpel Tunnel and he can’t play drums anymore.
C-No, no…he is on tour with Air Supply right now…in Europe.  He was here, months before he left, doing "I’m All out of Love."  Just over and over again.
A-Oh, I missed that.
C-Yeah, but he’ll be back, once that group breaks up again.
A-Oh good.
C-We were talk…
A-So he’s okay right?
C-Yeah, he’s fine, he’s coming back at some point, we just don’t know when.of course on Buffy, and I’ve seen you in person…Your skin’s very beautiful…extremely pale.
A-Right, well…
C-On the show you’re really pale because you’re a ghost.  And I of course…I..I..I have to talk about this because on TV I often look like I have no bone marrow.  You know, I’m the sickliest person on television.
A-I think I..I’m probably the whitest person alive.
C-No, no, no.  I think I win.
A-In fact right now, this is tan for me, which is pathetic.
C-This is tan?
A-Yeah, I..I’m like Casper basically.  My skin is translucent, and I have this fake tanning cream stuff and that’s sad because you look at me and you’re like she…
C-Wait, this is with the tanning cream on?
A-Yes, this is horrible
C-Oh you’re dead.
A-I know! I told you, I know.
C-Well tell…tell me about this tanning cream, because…could I…how does this work?
A-Okay..jus…It’s like a lotion and you put it on.
C-I like lotions.
A-and laughing) and you rub it on…you rub it in.
C-I’m likin’ this
A-And then like in three or four hours it it tans you.
C-What do you mean?
A-It has to develop
C-It has to develop?
A-Yeah, it’s like a cake…has to rise…the tanning cream…
C-So wait, so you put it on…
A-Right
C-And it’s clear, and then you go outside and it starts like hissing?
A-Yes, but the clear problem is what I have difficulties with, because you miss spots, and so because I’m so white, if I put it on and I miss a spot, there’s like a big old white spot on my leg
C-I would spell things on my forehead…Sexy.  And it would develop and people would be like, aahh… You’re insane.
A-But if you miss spots you tend to look really dirty.  It’s disgusting.
C-Right…I want this cream though, this balm, this lotion, this ointment
A-Well, come over the hotel and I’ll…I’ll hook you up.
C-Alright….(pounds table)…calm down and continue interview…Now I…ah…reading an article about you and you said you’re a…you really like dolphins, you’re obsessed with dolphins.
A-I love dolphins
C-What is it you love about dolphins?
A-I’ve just always been intrigued by them.  I desperately want to go swimming with the dolphins.  That’s my dream.
C-Everybody wants to do that…you think the dolphins get irritated? Like just…
A-Actually, I’ve heard they like to have sex with people…a…and…yeah…it’s…it’s actually…
C-Let’s roll that elephant clip again (referring to when his first guest this evening ? Al Roker ? was on and they kept showing a clip of a man whose head was sat on by an elephant.)  No, no I can’t see it one more time.
A-No, I think in Hawaii, if you’re surfing or something…
C-What are you talking about?
A-No listen, if you…you’re…you’re in the ocean…
C-No, you listen…
A-If you’re in the ocean and the dolphin comes up to you, you’re not allowed to touch them, because apparently, people have ha…had sex with the dolphins, so now they’re…protected
C-What kind of people are doing this?
A-Odd, odd people, but who’s letting an elephant sit on their head
C-He didn’t let it happen…
A-Well, he was there…
C-Oh, alright…okay, it’s his fault.  Ah, so wait, I mean…I mean…so…so..pe…I mean…I never heard that people were out there having sex with dolphins
A-You never heard of that?
C-This is a whole new thing that I’m not in on.
A-I heard of that…
C-Okay
A-Maybe it’s just my friends are messing with me…
C-Yeah, I think someone’s had a…a joke at your expense.
A-Okay, well, but I…I just wanna swim with dolphins.  I love dolphins.  I think they’re beautiful…
C-Everyone always says that dolphins are really nice and everything.  I was reading an article…actually it was in the New York Times, this week, a couple days ago…It said that dolphins were actually kind of creeps, you know..they ah, they they, yeah ah, they’re very violent, they like to attack people.
A-See, I think they just went to the wrong part of the ocean.  They, they interviewed the wrong…you know they went to the Jerry Springer section of the ocean.
C-Right and talked to…
A-You know there are a few bad seeds out here too.
C-Yeah
A-You could interview a some people and say, oh those humans…they just suck.
C-Yeah, never happened.  Never met anyone I didn’t like.
A-Really?
C-The chip’s still in there…Alright, ah, this movie…Let’s talk about ah, this movie
A-American Pie
C-American Pie.  It’s set in a high school.
A-Yes.
C-And these movies, I look at them, and my own..per…my own personal, ah, feeling about these movies, is, I look at them and everyone’s so attractive, and they’ve sortof so got it together.  It in no way resembles my high school experience.  Do..does it resemble your high school experience at all?
A-Well this movie i…i..is..is..very, um, very real and i..i…
C-Yeah, but the people are attractive.  We were all hideous ghouls in my high school.
A-Ah, well, yeah maybe.
C-Yeah
A-But that’s okay, you can, you can just relive, I mean because they go through hideous eventures and..
C-No, you know, I know they do, but you know that whole Beverly Hills 90210 syndrome, where people are ah going to high school and they’re they’ve filled out and their skin is clear and they’re in their early fourties…
A-See, but in this movie, in this movie, I mean, I look like crap, so.
C-I don’t think so
A-I I well yeah, I do, but that could just be me, and I don’t know, but so I think theres aah a reality there, you know?
C-Okay, what were you like in high school?
A-I was like depressed, and dyed my hair black, and that really goes well with my casper skin, um..
C-Okay, so
A-So so it wa it wa I yeah,
C-Kind of one of the freaks?
A-yeah, well, yea, I, yes. I was a freak.
C-Well I was a jock myself.
(big laughter, including Alyson)
A-Alright, but it’s…
C-The fact that you laughed at that hurt me.
A-Oh,
C-I’m not coming to the hotel now.  Ah, but you know what, its very cool to meet you and have you on the show.
A-Thank you
C-And American Pie which I’ve heard is is very funny.  People say it’s great, opens tomorrow.
A-Ah, now you know. I think it’s it’s very ah specific, the audience that American Pie is geared toward.
C-Right
A-It’s basically anyone whose thought of, heard of, or maybe even had sex will like this film.
C-Okay.
A-those people
C-Can I see it too?
A-You’ve thought of sex, haven’t you?
C-Yeah I sometimes, yeah. Ah, Alyson Hannigan, thank you very much,
A-Thank you
C-Very nice to have you here…Alyson Hannigan.  We’ll be right back.

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