Donny: Will you please welcome, Alyson Hannigan! [Alyson walks on and crowd goes wild]

Donny: Itıs so nice to meet you.

Alyson: Thank you. You too.

Marie: [pointing to Alyıs shoes] I love your shoes.

Alyson: Thank you! Theyıre actually not mine, theyıre wardrobes.

Marie: Our wardrobe?

Alyson: No, from Buffy. Theyıre Willowıs shoes.

Marie: Theyıre cute.

Alyson: Theyıre sort of like bowling shoes on steroids. I like them though. They kind hurt.

Donny: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Alyson: Yes!

Donny: You wear that on that show.

Alyson: Well, I will be. Theyıre brand new.

Marie: Youıre breaking them in.

Alyson: Yes.

Marie: Do you believe in vampires?

Alyson: Well, my theory on vampires is basically, Iıll tell people, 'Sure, I believe in them,' just so if there are vampires, they wonıt come like prove that they exist if I say, 'No they donıt exist.' Cause then theyıll like come show.

Donny: No, no, no, no. Youıre basically saying that you believe in them if you do that.

Alyson: Yes.

Donny: So youıre saying you believe in them?

Alyson: Because I donıt want anyone to prove me wrong.

Marie: You never want two holes in your neck.

Alyson: Exactly.

Donny: Do you really think somebodyıs going to come and bite two holes in your neck?

Alyson: You never know. I went to some weird parties.

Marie: Weird parties? What kind of parties?

Alyson: Well, no, I just saw weird people at parties with their fangs. Do you know, they have their canine teeth shaved as fangs.

Donny: Those are dogs.

Alyson: [playing along] Ohh! Okay. I just think itıs a good theory cause nobodyıs come up to me and gone, 'Hey Iım a vampire.'

Marie: You better be careful, now they will.

Donny: Youıve done a lot of supernatural kinds of roles.

Alyson: Yeah.

Donny: You were in, 'My Stepmotherıs an Alien.'

Alyson: Yes.

Donny: 'Free Spirit.'

Alyson: Yes.

Donny: 'Dead Man On Campus,' and now 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.' Is this like a coincidence. Is this like typecasting for you, or what?

Alyson: It is. I mean, itıs purely coincidental, but I think that maybe I go into these auditions and I can act like thereıs a big demon in the room and I do well.

Donny: You do well with demons?

Alyson: Yeah, maybe, you know, yeah. Itıs a trend, I donıt know.

Alyson: I just finished a movie, and thereıs no demons, or monsters.

Marie: So youıre playing a relatively normal person?

Alyson: Well, no. But, thereıs no monsters involved.

Marie: Now your character is Willow. [crowd starts cheering]

Alyson: Yes.

Marie: Now Willow, has had an interesting life. Sheıs been transformed into a ghost, right?

Alyson: Uh-huh.

Marie: She has been zombied?

Alyson: Uh, probably.

Marie: And asked out by a werewolf.

Alyson: Going out with a werewolf.

Marie: Really?

Alyson: Yes, yes.

Marie: So are there any similarities to like your real life here?

Alyson: Uh Well, I guess as a kid, because Iım so pale, the kids would call me 'Casper' and stuff and I have I widowıs peak so they would think I was a vampire.

Donny: Oh, you do.

Alyson: Yeah, so I would get made fun of a lot. And, you know, I probably dated a couple dogs. [Everyone laughs and Donny howls like a dog]

Marie: Now, your show has kinda a lot of freaky stuff in it.

Donny: But thereıs not a lot of blood and guts in it though.

Alyson: Well, no. Weıre sort of getting a little more graphic as the show progresses.

Donny: Well, I was gonna ask.

Alyson: But the WB was very, 'Okay, we donıt want too much blood.' The vampires would bite somebody and theyıd come up and their teeth would look like they just brushed them. Like a Crest commercial.

Marie: You have a lot of kids that watch though.

Donny: Oh, like a Crest commercial? [laughs]

Alyson: Yeah, cause theyıd have no blood on their fangs, but, theyıve lightened up, and we get a little more blood.

Donny: You like that?

Alyson: I do! I like the gore. Cause if theyıre gonna show them. And the make-up people are so amazing from our show. You know, show off the effects they can do!

Marie: Yeah! Sounds good to me.

Donny: Yeah, I can kind of understand. Around Halloween time, you wanna put the blood and the guts.

Alyson: Completely!

Donny: Do you mind if I ask you, and this is a personal question. I really shouldnıt, Do you mind if I ask how old you are?

Alyson: I am 24 years old.

Marie: 24. Now your character is in High School though, right?

Alyson: Yes, sheıs in High School. Sheıs a senior in High School.

Marie: Now, did you like High School?

Alyson: No.

Donny: Did any teenager enjoy high school, Marie? I donıt think so.

Marie: I liked High School.

Donny: Yeah, well.

Alyson: Did you?

Marie: I did. But it was only me in the class.

Donny: Why?

Alyson: High School was just-It was itıs own horror show. It really was.

Donny: Thatıs very good.

Alyson: It was-I was miserable. I dyed my hair, like black. I was so depressed. I just, I didnıt fit in. It was very awkward.

Marie: It seems like High Schoolıs tough.

Alyson: It is!

Marie: I mean it seems like theyıre really cliquey and theyıre really judgmental.

Alyson:Alyson: Well, and youıre going through all these physical changes, you know, and I was just so self-conscious.

Donny: What do they call it, with black, gothic! Were you gothic?

Alyson: Well, no. I think when I was in High School it was 'Alternative.'

Donny: Alternative. [Guy in audience laughs]

Alyson: Thatıs what it was called-It was, I swear.

Marie: I wanna know about your laundry issues. Because I have laundry issues.

Alyson: Oh do you?

Marie: Do you have any idea what weıre talking about. Weıre talking about 'laundry!'

Alyson: Massive!

Marie: Now what are youıre laundry issues.

Alyson: I can wash like a pair of socks and you know, maybe a T-shirt and then thatıs it. So, I let my laundry pile up, and pile up, itıs actually very massive at this point now. So, actually once, because I was working so long, with such long hours and everything, and the last thing I want to do is go to the Laundromat on my day off to do all of my laundry.

Donny: Of course.

Alyson: So I went to one of those dry cleaners that does it by the pound.

Marie: Oh yeah.

Alyson: And so I said, just wash everything. I had my blankets and everything. It cost me like $200.00.

Donny: Get out!

Alyson: And they do it by the pound, and I think itıs like a dollar a pound, so I had 200 pounds of laundry?! Is that possible?

Donny: Yes, itıs possible.

Marie: Have you heard of wearing things twice?

Alyson: I should of. But, like the stack of clothes to go to the Salvation Army? I started going through that and going, 'Well I can wear this shirt,' you know to work, cause I had no clothes. It was sad.

Marie: I hate laundry. Laundry in our family was a nightmare.

Alyson: Itıs so hard to do.