June 26 1998
Transcribed by: Sandra Prusina.
Howie: Thank you for being here!
Jennifer: My pleasure.
Howie: You're.. you're my first!
Jennifer: Wow!
Howie: Be gentle with me!
Jennifer: I think we should have a hug, don't you think, just for that moment!
Howie: My wife is in the green room--
Jennifer: Where?
Howie: Honey, this is strictly professional!
Jennifer: Just for luck! Just for luck!
Jennifer: Okay, this is obviously your first show and I am honored to be your first guest because I think you're awesome!
Howie: Thank you!
Jennifer: And um.. isn't he awesome?
Howie: Did you see me walk up?
Jennifer: I did see you walk up! It was brilliant, I don't think anyone's done it better!
Howie: Thank you!
Jennifer: Ehh!
Howie: What is that?
Jennifer: This is just a little treat for you to say Here's to many many many years of wonderful--
Howie: Thank you! It's a chaffon thing..
Jennifer: It's a chaffon..
Howie: Well... should I open it?
Jennifer: Yeah open it!
Howie: Okay, I'll open it, opening it, I'm opening it now...
Jennifer: You're opening it!
Howie: Is it a.. is it an album?
Jennifer: Don't shake it don't shake it DON'T SHAKE IT!
Howie: Okay, okay, is it.. oh wow! Oh wow! Oh my God, I don't know if you can see this.. no this is reeeallly nice! Look at this... it says "Hey Howie, will you be.. my neurotic friend? Love, Jennifer"
Jennifer: Now you have to keep that on your desk!
Howie: I will! I feel bad..
Jennifer: Why?
Howie: Because I didn't know you were getting me something..
Jennifer: You didn't know?!
Howie: Oh, actually, I did know, and here! hands her the stuff that Jay Leno gave him, including flowers.>
Jennifer: Oh, thank you! Did you hand pick these all yourself?
Howie: Yeah! And those are chocolates!
Jennifer: Oh my Lord!
Howie: Half eaten..
Jennifer: You ate some on the way over?
Howie: I do, I do! Now, this is new for me, so, do you get nervous doing these things?
Jennifer: Uhh.. yeah! Sure!
Howie: Are you nervous now?
Jennifer: I'm actually okay! Now that I'm here.
Howie: Okay! But you do a lot of talk shows have you ever been in this room before?
Jennifer: This is.. this is the..
Howie: Howard Brown.
Jennifer: Right?
Howie: Yes.
Jennifer: It is! This was always the dream.
Howie: You dreamt of doing Johnny Carson?
Jennifer: Well, Carson! I mean, you're a little kid, growing up, and you're watching, mesmerized, and you're just thinking 'Well, maybe someday..' you know..
Howie: Were you ever on the Johnny Carson show?
Jennifer: Nooo! Nooo! I was waitressing when the Johnny Carson show was on!
Howie: Really?
Jennifer: Yeah! Wow, it is kind of like a swooping thing, though!
Howie: Yes, we're swooping here! Are you a Bob Hope fan?
Jennifer: Oh I LOVE Bob Hope! I actually got to meet Bob Hope recently!
Howie: You met him? I've never met him. What was he like?
Jennifer: It was wild. Well... he's.. Bob Hope!
Howie: Right, therefore..
Jennifer: ....um... he's Bob Hope!
Howie: You know what? With that description, when I close my eyes, I feel like he's right here with us! When you met him, did you talk to him?
Jennifer: Well, the only thing we actually did, we were taking a photograph with him, and the cast, and he was sort of, mumbling stuff and then all of a sudden he just blurted out, "FRIEEEENDS! EHHH? FRIEEEENDS!" And that was like what we said!
Howie: How do you answer that?
Jennifer: "Well, that's right!"
Howie: Well, you had a conversation with Bob!
Jennifer: I had a conversation with Bob!
Howie: Now I understand your family is in showbusiness, your father is of course John Aniston.
Howie: And your mother is a model.
Jennifer: Was a model, yes. Actually, an actress and then a model, she couldn't stand the rejection!
Howie: Of modeling?
Jennifer: No, acting.
Howie: Well I thought there would be more rejection in modeling... did she just walk into a room, turn and leave all the time?
Jennifer: What did you just say?
Howie: I said, did she walk into a room, turn around and leave all the time?
Jennifer: Yeah, just pivots, she would just pivot.
Howie: You know, cuz models walk into a room, show off what they're wearing, and leave!
Jennifer: Yeah, that's how she served dinner.
Howie: Now, I also heard that you have a very famous godfather.
Jennifer: Yes, I do, I did! Yeah, Telly Savalas. All the Greeks.
Howie: You're Greek?
Jennifer: Yup.
Howie: Who loves ya, baby?
Jennifer: Who loves ya, baby!
Howie: I didn't know you were Greek, Aniston doesn't sound like a Greek name.
Jennifer: Oh, actually it's Anastassakis.
Howie: It's what?
Jennifer: Anastassakis.
Howie: Anastas--asskiss?
Jennifer: Anastas-asskiss!
Howie: Anastasasskiss, that's you?
Jennifer: Ha, that's me!
Howie: So you shortened it.
Jennifer: Yeah, well they changed it when my grandfather, when they all came over.
Howie: I shortened my name too.
Jennifer: Did you really? What was it before, Howie Mandelin?
Howie: It used to be Mandelllll. So anyways, are you busy?
Jennifer: Yeah. I mean you know, I'm relaxing! I'm enjoying the little vacation.
Howie: Do you date?
Jennifer: Nope.
Howie: No dates?
Jennifer: Nope!
Howie: Not for me, I'm not asking.
Jennifer: Are you asking for a date?
Howie: No, no, well I'm not allowed to!
Jennifer: Oh, you're not, that's right!
Howie: I'm a married guy!
Jennifer: You're actually right, forgive me, Jesus, what is happening to me?
Howie: She said no dating! In fact, I have a post-it note on me--
Jennifer: No dating! Things to do-- No dating!
Howie: I'm asking for the guys in the band! Because I try to live vicariously >through single people. I've been married for about 20 years, with three kids.
Jennifer: I commend that!
Howie: Thank you, I'm not used to everything you say, getting applause..
Jennifer: Everything!
Howie: So I try to live vicariously through single people who are doing other things.. we just stay at home, last night we stayed home with the uh.. with the uh.. kids..
Jennifer: Kids, right.
Howie: And the wife and she rented movies.
Jennifer: Kids.
Howie: You know their names! I don't have names for them yet. I'm waiting for them to grow up, and they'll tell me what to call them. But you know what? I stayed home, my wife rents tapes, that's what I did last night.
Jennifer: Did you? Ohh, that's wonderful! That's the best kind of evening!
Howie: It is the best thing. We watched umm... Legends Of The Fall last night.
Jennifer: Yeah.
Howie: You like that tape?
Jennifer: .... yeah.
Howie: So does my wife.
Jennifer: Yeah.
Howie: We see it a lot.
Jennifer: Yeah.
Howie: She likes Thelma and Louise, too.
Jennifer: Oh yeah. I would just stop, right now.
Howie: You want me to stop?
Jennifer: Yeah.
Howie: Okay, just.. inquiring minds wanna know!
Jennifer: A ha ha, oh yeah!
Howie: Is that weird that--
Jennifer: Wow, I can't believe you just did that!
Howie: You can't believe I did that?
Jennifer: I can't believe it!
Howie: I'm just learning!
Jennifer: <garbs his cards> That wasn't in our pre-interview!!!
Howie: Is that weird, though, that people even care about what you're doing privately?
Jennifer: Well, sure, I mean, although, you know, it's curiousity, I get it. I get it.
Howie: You get people like, stalking you, wanting to know every move?
Jennifer: It doesn't happen but uh.. that I don't quite get, no.
Howie: Do you get people following you into the supermarket, things like that?
Jennifer: There have been times when that's happened, yeah.
Howie: And how do you deal with that?
Jennifer: You just do! I don't know, Howie! You kinda go with the flow..
Howie: You go with the flow? There's an actual flow of people following you to the supermarket?
Jennifer: Yeah, exactly, just swimmin' along with them! And sometimes they get lost in the crowd and they lose you and then they "Ohh where is she Oh what happened"..
Howie: Well that's it. Do you ever wear disguises? Have you ever gone out in a disguise?
Jennifer: A couple times I've actually done a wig. Just for fun.
Howie: Really? But with you, you've got to be worried about that because you can put on a wig, people see you with a wig, and then America's wearing a wig! You know what I want to say to you?
Jennifer: What?
Howie: I want to say that you are absolutely adorable.
Jennifer: Thank you.
Howie: You are talented, and I can't, you know what? People come on these talk shows because they have something to plug. And you have a very busy schedule, I know you just finished Mike Judge's-
Jennifer: I have nothing to plug!
Howie: No, no! Don't laugh at that, no, she just did a movie with Mike Judge in Texas.
Jennifer: Yeah I did, that was fun.
Howie: The creator of Hank Hill, and FRIENDS is coming up for a new season, and you're off to Europe, you're gonna do another movie, and I think the coolest thing is that you'd just come here, and spend time with me just to sit and talk with me, and be here for me.
Jennifer: I wouldn't miss it for the world!