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Late Night With Conan O'Brien  (10/19/00)  View the Real Video HERE.  Provided by Amy Graham.

Conan: My next guest tonight has just begun her sixth and final season of 'Xena:Warrior Princess', lets take a look at her in action.

Conan: [laughs] We used the panty shot, yeah. That's the kinda show we have here. I said 'Is there a panty shot?' and they said 'Ahh, yes there is!'.

Conan: What the hell? Seriously? Let's go! [turns Lucy's chair towards him and pats his lap] Right there!

Conan: [laughs] Are you hurting me? [laughs] Okay, you'd best sit down, we have an interview to do.

Conan: [moving her chair] Get this chair just right. You do look beautiful tonight.

Conan: Thank you for being here. And also, you had a big, big day. You co-hosted with Regis Philbin today.

Conan: [laughs] Yeah! Now, he called Xena--did he call you Xena? He didn't call you Lucy, he called you Xena all day?

Conan: Yeah, I swear. I've been doing this show for seven years, I've run into Regis a hundred times. He calls me Co-NAN. He's like "Hey there Co-NAN. How are you doing, Co-NAN? Good to see ya! How's Co-NAN?" And it's like, calm down! So was he doing that to you all day? "Hey there, Xena! How are you? Nice to see you!"

Lucy: [leans over and runs her fingers through Conan's hair] Fix your hair there.

Conan: Yeah, but this is not the first time my hair has looked weird on the show. Now of course we've had you on the show before, you're in New Zeal--huh?

Conan: Yeah, you didn't know about that? He was killed in a skydiving accident.

Conan: He's an animated dog on a TV show. He left me to be an animated dog.

Conan: That was a hard blow for me. Now lets talk about--You're a New Zealander. You are very popular in this country, but in New Zealand you're a god, I understand. You're like, the head of state in New Zealand, is that true?

Conan: That's a nice thing to say, I think. That's not some kind of "slaaam". They--In New Zealand they just absolutely adore you, you're a powerful figure there. Is that true?

Conan: I heard that you were invited to a small--when president Clinton visited the country you were invited to a small private dinner. I mean, that doesn't happen to me that often an in this country I'm a god, sooo....

Lucy: It was. And it was very interesting. He was, umm, very personable. You know, I'm sorry to tell you guys he's a really likeable person to sit down with.

Lucy: [laughs] He was a bit closer than you are. And his daughter was across the table.

Conan: He brought his daughter along. You were at a restaurant, is that right?

Lucy: Yeah, the patron's jaws just hit the ground when the leader of the free world walks in and plunks himself down.

Conan: You were just like at a Chuck E. Cheese, right? Just any old restaurant.

Conan: He was in the big bin of balls--[President Clinton impression] Whoa! And he had his daughter with him. I've met Chelsea, she's really cool, she's really nice.

Lucy: Yeah she's very charming and very intelligent, and clearly likes her father very much. Just like friends.

Lucy: But, ah, the sun really rose when she discovered that the buxom, dark-haired woman sitting next to her father was in fact eight months pregnant. When I stood up I was enormously pregnant. She's like [Southern accent and flicking of the wrist] "Oh, you're pregnant!". I think she thought, maybe I had a thing for her dad, which I did.

Lucy: He didn't move the chair back to the original position, Conan. Co-NAN.

Lucy: Well, I don't think it's a point in television because he's you know--Maybe it is. Maybe it is.

Lucy: He had seen it before. He said [imitating Clinton] "I like your show, it's a very naughty show."

Conan: [imitating Clinton] "I REALLY like your show." [snapping fingers] "Mr. President, we've gotta go." "Not now..."

Lucy: He said his wife watches it too. Like, she phones from her bedroom and....

Conan: [laughing] Wow! That was good. VERY good. Now, yeah, you've had this baby since your last visit here to the show so congratulations.

Lucy: Boy. Julius. We're starting to call him Julius Maximus 'cause he's just so huge, he's gotta max out soon. He's the most enormous baby. He's thirty-two pounds.

Conan: Really? If it's any consolation--this is true--I was a very fat baby and look what happened here.

Conan: Anyway... Now, I would think, the one thing this brings up to mind for me is if on every other TV show if your pregnant while shooting--Like I'm friends with Lisa Kudrow--

Conan: [laughing] We're really friends! You got me there. Anyway, they had to shoot, when she was pregnant on "Friends" they had to contrive all this stuff that they do on sitcoms like she was always carrying a basket of laundry and she was always standing behind something. How does Xena hide the fact that she's pregnant? I mean, you can't, you can't do that.  You're flipping through the air.

Lucy: They couldn't. They couldn't hide it. Because I'm wearing that corset. So it just exploded. It went BOOOM. So they just went "She's pregnant. Better write it in."

Lucy: Yeah. Then there's a difficulty once you have a baby on a show.  You gotta like [jerks her thumb over her shoulder and talks out the side of her mouth], eighty-six the baby somehow because they're so painful to work with.

Conan: [sits back and looks at her] Eighty-six the baby? What a wonderful term.

Conan: "And watch Co-NAN! He's got Lucy Lawless!" "We're gonna eighty-six the baby." You're a horrible woman!

Lucy: That's right, so we just cleverly went to sleep in an ice cave for twenty-five years [leans in close to Conan] which you know because you're a big fan--

Conan: Listen, [runs his fingers through his hair] I think this is a good time to do a commercial break so you and I can, uh, "chat" in private.

Conan: Check your local listings for "Xena: Warrior Princess". And that's it, this is the last season.

Conan: Yeah, and you've got a lot of big fans here tonight actually, that wore jackets and were making the noise. They're gonna miss you.

Conan: Lucy, thank you for coming. Congratulations on the new baby. It was great to have you here. Lucy Lawless, everybody!

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