The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, February 2001

Leno: My first guest stars on the hit show Friends. This Thursday you can see a special 40 minute jumbo, extra-big Friends, followed by 20 minutes of Friends outtakes hosted by our buddy Conan. Jennifer Aniston!

[Enter Jen, in black pants, and a black sleeveless shirt, baring some of her stomach. She waves to the crowd, holds hands with Jay, and kisses his cheek. He holds her right hand up and she does a little bow, waves, gives the crowd two thumbs up and sits.]

Leno: Good to see you. You look lovely.
Jen: Hey. Wow, wait a minute, my thing is too short.
Leno: Your thing is too short?
Jen: I'm wired for sound.
Audience person: You're gorgeous!
Jen: Ah, you're sweet. Thank you.
Audience person: I love you!
Jen: Love you.
Leno: Got it? You're all set?
Jen: I'm good. It's all good. I was strangled slightly but it's all good.
Leno: Kind of like the Judy Time Life operator thing.
Jen: I'm like, you know, Janet Jackson.
Leno: Now, it's your birthday weekend. You had a birthday and and you got Valentine's Day.
Jen: Yeah.
Leno: It's all this week?
Jen: All in one week.
Leno: So, what do you do? What's the celebration? Is there a big thing you do? What do you do?
Jen: No.
Leno: Spago.
Jen: Yeah, Spago. No, we went, actually, we did a mellow thing. We went bowling.
Leno: Bowling?
Jen: Yeah. Bowling and a little Mexican food.
Leno: Bowling and Mexican food?
Jen: Yeah.
Leno: Yeah, you want to do the bowling first, then the Mexican food.
Jen: Well, that's what we thought.
Leno: You do it the other way around...
Jen: You don't bowl too well.
Leno: No.
Jen: I didn't bowl too well anyway.
Leno: Now, do you have your own shoes, or do you rent shoes?
Jen: I rent shoes. I go into the old, smelly shoes, yeah.
Leno: No, but see, I think that's really good because you get a lot of people..."Oh, no, I have special little Gucci shoes with little bows." You just go in and rent the...
Jen: Little pom poms.
Leno: Well, yeah, that's what I mean. But there are people that have that.
Jen: Yeah.
Leno: You just rent the shoes.
Jen: Rent the shoes. I'm almost, I'm so tempted to just walk out with a pair of those shoes because they're so cool, but I...
Leno: And they are attractive.
Jen: I think so, are you kidding?
Leno: Well, they are, there's something I guess oddly...
Jen: There's something very hip about them, Jay.
Leno: Yeah, yeah.
Jen: Yeah.
Leno: Are you good? Do you bowl well? Are you a good bowler?
Jen: Well, I... I've had moments of being a good bowler. I've had those little flukes, where I've, you know, I'm a terrible bowler. I, you know, you just sort of set that up and then you just strike. Whoa, look at that, who knew?
Leno: Right.
Jen: And, then it's your birthday and I just sucked.
Leno: Really? Oh, you sucked at it? Oh, that's not good.
Jen: I just...
Leno: Lots of gutter balls?
Jen: Gutters! Yeah, that's in the, yeah. [Does a little wave to the audience.]
Leno: Now, are you one of those people, do you walk to the line, sit down and then push the ball, or do you actually...
Jen: Yeah, that's what I do. Like the kids. [demonstrates how she bowls.]
Leno: Do you follow through the whole thing?
Jen: Yeah, no, I do, I at least get that. Sometimes it doesn't really want to leave my hand. I'd have a little bit of a hard landing.
Leno: You don't have your own ball, a special...
Jen: No.
Leno: One of those loose ideals with Jennifer lighting on it?
Jen: No.
Leno: You know what I'm talking about. You've never seen those balls...
Jen: [laughs] No, it's a good idea, though.
Leno: You know, they have the thing that lights up. But they do, these guys in the league, they have all that, says "Gulf War", or something on the side.
Jen: Really?
Leno: Yeah.
Jen: I'll look into that.
Leno: So you just use the standard... Do you like the colored balls or the standard black ones?
Jen: I go for a good solid red or blue ball.
Leno: Oh, red, oh, I've had those, yeah, I've had. Yeah, yeah.

[Jen laughs, looks out at the audience and puts her hands over her mouth.]

Leno: I try to avoid those.
Jen: Nothing like a good blue ball, you know what I'm saying?
Leno: Yeah, I'll tell you I've been watching people bowl...
Jen: Yeah, ha ha. Sometimes.
Leno: Now, what do you do, how about Valentine's? What happens on Valentine's?
Jen: Jay, everyday is Valentine's Day.
Leno: Really? Well, that's right. Well, you're...
Audience: Aw! [applaud, Jennifer laughs]
Leno: Aw. Well, you're still a newlywed.
Jen: Yeah, I know. Yeah.
Leno: That's good. I mean, do you have anything special...
Jen: Yeah, no, you know, we'll probably just do a nice dinner at home.
Leno: Dinner at home. You're going to cook? I imagine...
Jen: No, I can't.
Leno: Cooking With Jennifer. Beautiful...turkey...stuff.
Jen: No, I don't cook. I thaw, and I microwave, and I order in real well.
Leno: Really? You do that really...
Jen: Yeah, yeah.
Leno: And are you good at microwaving? Do you remember to poke the hole in the foil?
Jen: Poke the hole in the foil, pull it back just so much... These aren't things you should ever admit.
Leno: Now what do you order in? What do you...Do you ever order in and try to make Brad think you cooked it or do you just be honest?
Jen: No, I'm usually honest about that because he usually gets the door. [laughs]
Leno: Really. I guess the Dominoes box is a dead give away.
Jen: It's a dead give away.
Leno: Now, when he was here, when Brad Pitt, of course your husband, was here and he was talking, and I thought this was really nice because I never heard, usually, men don't talk about their weddings, they go "uh"!
Jen: "What a drag!"
Leno: Yeah, I came for the bowling...They do. But, I mean, he said it was the greatest day of his life and he seemed very excited. Was it thrilling for you or was it just nerve racking?
Jen: No, God, it was...can you imagine if I was like, "Really. Yeah, for me, not so much."

[Audience laughs]

Leno: No, no, but I mean sometimes people worry so much about the details, that they don't have a good time.
Jen: No, it was. The details. Everything just fell into place. There was nothing to worry about. How can you waste that day worrying? I can't, I mean, I can, I see how people could, I just, it was not, it was a pre-planned thing no to worry, have everything just go smoothly, but it did...
Leno: There was a mess-up, did something mess up?
Jen: Nothing messed up, well I messed up.
Leno: You did. Now what did...
Jen: I had a mess-up. During the vows.
Leno: During the vow?
Jen: It was a mess-up but I was...
Leno: "I changed my mind." I mean, what happened?
Jen: [laughs] Jay!
Leno: How do you mess up your own vows?
Jen: That was the only mess-up.
Leno: Of the words, "I do", how do you screw that up?
Jen: I got that far. I got to that part. I think, I can't even remember exactly, but I think we were supposed to start saying something at the same time and I just didn't start speaking. I thought we were [motions speaking separately]
Leno: Kind of like, I pledge allegiance to the flag.
Jen: ...to the flag of the United States of Jennifer.
Leno: That's right. Well, it was great and from what I saw, it looked like a beautiful [mumbles something]
Jen: It was very nice.
Leno: We'll take a break and we'll talk some more with Jennifer Aniston.

~COMMERCIAL BREAK~

Leno: Welcome back, talking with Jennifer Aniston. Uh, now you're doing these 40 minute Friends, of course, you're going up against Survivor. [makes a cat fight noise]
Jen: Oh my God, damn Survivor! Yeah, yeah, we're up against Survivor.
Leno: Yeah, but you had a good idea. Tell them what you were telling me before, your idea about Survivor.
Jen: I won't get in trouble for that?
Leno: No, no, nobody's watching.
Jen: Well, my idea was, [laughs] nobody's watching. My idea was, that, uh, you know, for the ratings war, to, um, have, like, Joey and Rachel go, get, uh, picked to be contestants on Survivor.
Leno: On Friends, you guys would tune in to watch.
Jen: And then we would watch, they would tune in to watch Joey and Rachel on Survivor, and you'd get the contestants from last year, like Richard and the woman who said, "I'd watch you die and spit in your..." something.
Leno: Sure, they're not working.
Jen: No, they're out of work. So, that, and then where Joey, like, votes...votes Rachel off the island. I don't know; I thought it would be a good idea.
Leno: I think it'd be funny. I think people would get a kick out of it.
Jen: Nobody [something, but she says it twice] So, now, we have these awesome super-size 40 minutes, you know.
Leno: Well, how do those re-run? Can they re-run?
Jen: No, they can't re-run. Well, they'll re-run again, but only in 30 minutes. See, we won't have the extra ten minutes.
Leno: Oh, I see, the extra ten minutes.
Jen: We won't ever see again, yeah. Nor the blooper show; will never actually re-run again.
Leno: Really? That, this is a one time only deal?
Jen: Yeah, and that goes into a vault.
Leno: Into, a vault, sealed...
Jen: Which is in my home.
Leno: 50 years, we all get together...
Jen: Yes, that's right.
Leno: Now, do you watch these reality, do you like reality-type shows?
Jen: I love, love them. I'm a little addicted to them, actually.
Leno: Oh yeah? Like Survivor, you mean?
Jen: Well. Oh, I thought you were talking about the Learning Channel and stuff like that. Discovery, but ah, Survivor, I was into Survivor absolutely, I, uh, it's hard, they're just so mean to each other.
Leno: Welcome to show business.
Jen: Yeah, it's just don't trust or anything...
Leno: What do you watch?
Jen: Huh?
Leno: What do you watch on the Learning Channel? Or what kind of things do you like?
Jen: Well, um, I, one of my favourites I would have to say is, Trauma.
Leno: Trauma?
Jen: Life in the ER.
Leno: But, now, those are gruesome, those are gruesome to me.
Jen: Yeah. Well, my dad was gonna be a doctor at one point and he gave up acting and he was going to be a doctor and so you know that's when it started. I'd sit next to Dad and watch those live operations and you're just riveted.
Leno: Really? You like watching surgery, that seems...
Jen: Yeah, I know, it's weird and sometimes even during dinner. You know, so that's, we have arguments over that, but you know, it's like, what the hell?
Leno: No Monster Truck?
Jen: No, no.
Leno: Now, how, Hannibal, did you see that movie?
Jen: Oh, gosh, no. I mean, I love... I will definitely see it but, uh...
Leno: Are you frightened to see it? Are you a weenie?
Jen: I don't know if that...
Leno: Are you a weenie?
Jen: Huh?
Leno: Are you a weenie?
Jen: Am I a weenie?
Leno: Yeah.
Jen: I'm a wacko!
Leno: Yeah?
Jen: Yes, truly, actually.
Leno: Do you get scared in a movie like that?
Jen: Yes, I, no, I did, I get more afraid of, like slasher movies don't scare me but those, like Exorcist kind of, could, maybe, really happen. Forget it.
Leno: Exorcist could happen? The head going around? Yeah.
Jen: Hey, man, things have happened. There have been stories! No. I had a friend once...No. Um, but yeah, those are the ones, I mean, gosh, I don't think anyone after seeing that slept alone well ever.
Leno: Exorcist? You know, I slept alone before and after. [Jen laughs.] Sleeping alone was never a problem for me.
Jen: Yeah.
Leno: Well, now, tell me more about the outtakes. Was it Conan...
Jen: Conan O'Brien came in and he did it sort of like this format and uh, we just started talking, it was fun. It was just us talking about the clips cause we really love our gag reels at the end of each year, more than the show sometimes.
Leno: Sure.
Jen: Cause we mess up so much and there's just things that go wrong so often.
Leno: Well, we have some outtakes here, does this need a set up, what we're going to see here?
Jen: Oh, the set up, oh, this is the, yeah, this is the little sweet child, boy plays Benny, and, um, what did he do? Oh, I forgot my line and he sort of helps me out.
Leno: Let's take a look.
Jen: Sweet kid.
Leno: This is an outtake.

~OUTTAKE #1~

[Rachel/Jennifer is kneeling in front of Ben.]
Jen: Okay, now what is my first line?
Cole: "What did we agree?"
Jen: Okay.
[Cole does a little hand thing, that Jennifer always does, and then Jennifer does it too. She looks at the camera, opens her eyes real wide and then smiles.]

~OUTTAKE #2~

[TOW After Ross Says Rachel. Scene where Ross is talking to Rachel and Joey.]
David: Oh, oh, the band says they're ready. Well, I guess I have to do what the band says!! I don't care what the band says!!
[All of a sudden, Jennifer starts laughing.]

~OUTTAKE #3~

[TOW Ross Dates a Student. Scene where Rachel and Phoebe both want to live at Joey's.]
[Take 1]
Jen: No! No! Phoebe, come on! I don't want to switch! Please, come on! I can throw wet paper towels here!
Lisa: No, but at Monica's, you can eat... [cracks up, followed by Jen and Matt]
[Take 2]
Jen: No! No! [stutters and starts laughing]

Leno: Now we have another clip from Friends, this is for this coming week, this is for Thursday. Is that what we have?
Jen: Oh, yeah, I guess, with Susan Sarandon.
Leno: Oh, with Susan. Susan Sarandon on Friends this week. Let's take a look.

[The clip is from TOW Joey's New Brain, the scene after Cecilia (Susan Sarandon) sleeps with Joey. Rachel comes in and gets all excited cause she's a fan of Cecilia's. She calls Monica in and she asks Cecilia to slap her on the face.]

Leno: Well, great job. Thursday night, special Friends, with special Conan.
Jen: Yeah, man.
Leno: Jennifer, I'm happy to...and you make a lovely newlywed, you look beautiful.
Jen: Thank you.
Leno: I'm very happy for you, congratulations. I know you have to go. Jennifer Aniston!