Leno: My first guest just got an Emmy nomination on the hugely popular show, Friends. He’s also starring in a movie called Serving Sara, which is opening everywhere August 23rd. Please welcome Matthew Perry, ladies and gentlemen! (MP comes out, audience cheers, etc.) How are you buddy? Now, we must give you a compliment. Everyone knows about your Emmy nomination, but most people don’t know...you have not crashed a car in almost a year, or over a year. Is that correct? (MP gets up to receive applause) Hey, that’s good, that’s quite an accomplishment.

MP: Yeah, I’m very proud. Thank you. I’m glad to be here. I was watching the show last week and Matt LeBlanc was here. Um, his birthday was coming up and you gave him, you gave him a little present. Uh, a little, a little puppy dog.

Leno: A chihuahua.

MP: Yeah, yeah, I thought that was very sweet and my birthday is on Monday...so what do you have for me?

Leno: Well, did you think that I would have something for one Friend and leave another one out.

MP: Well, that was the fear.

Leno: That was the fear... But you know me. Did you think you would come here and I would somehow leave you out? Don’t you think I treat all Friends equally? I have something here.

MP: Do you?

Leno: Yes, yes. You came here expecting to embarrass me.

MP: No.

Leno: I have a lovely - do you want it now? Or do you want to open it later?

MP: Well, I think they’d like to see. (audience cheers) (he starts unwrapping the present)

Leno: I hope you’ll enjoy it.

MP: It’s very well wrapped.

Leno: Well, thank you.

MP: It’s obviously not a chihuahua.

Leno: I think you’ll like it. It’s a lovely picture... (MP holds up a framed picture of MLB with the chihuahua kissing him. The band plays the Friends theme) There, there’s Matt right there. You see, Matt’s kissing the dog.

MP: Yeah, Matt - it was a sweet moment for Matt.

Leno: Yeah. And you see the frame - “Aaron Brothers.” [?]

MP: Oh, expensive frame.

Leno: Well, I’m going to put this right here.

MP: Yeah, I’ll put it over my fireplace.

Leno: What’s new? You see, I enjoy, I enjoy the rumors about you.

MP: Uh huh.

Leno: I enjoy reading about you.

MP: Me too.

Leno: Do you get a kick out of it? I enjoy reading about you. Some of them are nasty, but some are fun.

MP: The fun thing is, if you go buy the tabloids for the last four months, I fathered Elizabeth Hurley’s baby -

Leno: I heard that.

MP: I’ve started drinking again, I have dated about nineteen women that I’ve never met, and, uh, I’m engaged to Jennifer Capriati.

Leno: Wow.

MP: So it’s been an exhausting four months.

Leno: Really! Yeah, I don’t know how you’d have time to crash a car!

MP: It’s fun, because of the way they do these kind of stories, it’s always a shred of truth, always a tiny shred of truth. The rest is just fabricated. So I think it’s important that I say here (looks into the camera, very seriously) Jennifer Capriati is actually the father of Elizabeth Hurley’s baby.

Leno: Really. Really.

MP: I don’t want to go into how, but I did bring a sketch for you. (pretends to get one out)

Leno: Really. I would pay to see that sketch. That would be a good one, you and Elizabeth together, you being the father. That wouldn’t be bad.

MP: Well, it says a lot about my sexual prowess because apparently I can impregnate someone without sleeping with them.

Leno: Really?

MP: So, uh, be careful.

Leno: Yep. Now tell me about you and, and Jennifer Capriati. I think I’ve seen pictures of you in that kind of (does a weird spaz thing) pose, getting out of a car. (does it again)

MP: Those are the stupidest, stupidest pictures. Jennifer is a friend of mine, and we went to (Leno winks) - yeah. (He winks again) Yeah. (He winks and gives him the ok sign) Yeah, great. (MP laughs) (Leno winks and punches him in the arm) Yeah, yeah! No, she’s a, she’s a friend of mine and I - yes, friend. And I, I went to France to watch her play. And what - (to someone in the audience) you a big France fan? And the funny thing is - I was kinda sitting with her family - sometimes she would kind of just look up for support and assurance -

Leno: Ok.

MP: But ever so briefly, these periods of maybe three quarters of a second, when she looks up. So you spend the match waiting for her to look and then faking something. (Jumps a bit and pretends to cheer.)

Leno: For support...

MP: Yeah, yeah, and then you’ll miss it. And she’ll look up again and (does it again).

Leno: Yeah, yeah.

MP: You see, I kind of looked like a French, a French spastic person. And then you realize at the end that she was looking at her father the whole time.

Leno: Yeah, yeah. All of those things. (MP does some more) Look, we’ll take a break. More with Matthew after this.

MP: Great.

(commercial break)

Jay: Welcome back, we're talking with Matthew Perry, Saving Sarah is the movie. Now, you

commented, you were watching Viki(Tonight Show Band Dancer), you said that's the job I would

like.

MP: Yeah!

Jay: You want dance?

MP: Just standing over there, dancing for a living! (everybody laughs).

Jay: Are you a dancer by train?

MP: Well, I wouldn't say I'm a dancer, I go to clubs sometimes and watch other people and

make fun of them dancing.

Jay: Oh, yeah.

MP: But I can see why you would think that, because most people say that I have the legs of

a dancer.

Jay: Really?

MP: Yeah!

Jay: Really? Most people say that?

MP: Yeah, so many people.

Jay: I've never heard anyone say that.

MP: You can just edit this stuff right out!

Jay: Yeah, yeah yeah yeah! (everybody laughs) Now were talking about Jennifer Capriatti,

but, but you were a pretty good tennis player for real, weren't you?

MP: Yeah, I mean, that's orginally what I wanted to do.

Jay: Be pro?

MP: Yeah, I was a nationally ranked player in Canada,(crowd cheers), (holds up a positive

fist). Yeah, and then I moved down here, and my family came, and I had pretty big

asperations to be a tennis player, and tennis was just a little bit more superior down here,

and I went to my fist big satellite tournament thing and my family came out, my father and

my grandparents, and I didn't get a single point. (everybody laughs).

Jay: You didn't score one?

MP: No, not one. Not one point. So, my father sat me down and said, you've made a serious

vocational error! (everybody laughs).

Jay: So they were ready to cheer and...?

MP: Yeah, they had lawn chairs out and they were ready to go, and...

Jay: See...

MP: It's just pathetic. Oh yeah. Just terrible. Just terrible. Now as a tennis player,

when I play with Jennifer, or I've been lucky enough to play with Agassi in some charity

events and stuff (jay wows) and it's been a lot of fun, and I'm kind of getting back in the

game now, so it's been fun and as a tennis player, you know I know I act better than those

guys!

Jay: whoa!(everybody laughs) Be more dramatic effect.

MP: I can't belive I missed that shot!(in a pretend mad melodramtic way, it was really

funny).

Jay: Now tell us about Saving Sarah. You know we haven't seen it because they haven't sent

it to us yet.

MP: Yeah well you'll have to watch it. Come over tomorrow, we'll watch it together.

Jay: Well the clips look great, you constantly, you seem to get punched in the face a lot,

by women.

MP: (laughs) Somewhere, some studio decided that it was fun to watch me get beat up.

Jay: (laughs)

MP: And, all my movies I get beat, each one I get beat up a bunch of times, but no we're

really excited, Serving Sarah is a great movie, it turned out better than we though it was

going to be.

Jay: Tell us the story.

MP: Uh, the story is based, I play a process-server guy, who serves supenas, and I have to

serve a supena to Elizabeth Hurley, and once I meet her, she convinces me to pretend that I

haven't done that, and to serve the supena to her husband, so we go off on the road, and do

that. It's a really funny thing. Elizabeth is...unattractive but funny.

Jay: Really?

MP: Yeah.

Jay: Not your type at all.

MP: Very, very displeasing to the eye. But she is a good actor.

Jay: I guess it really is in the eye of the beholder.

MP: Yeah.

Jay: You do a lot of characters in this movie?

MP: Yeah, one of the good things, I did a lot of research while, before we started the

movie, and these process servers sometimes have to pretend to be other people to get where

they need to go, so it reminded me of a movie I love called "Fletch".

Jay: Oh, the Chevy Chase movie.

MP: Yeah, the Chevy Chase movie, you know? And so you know, we played around with a bunch

of different characters, did a couple of impressions.

Jay: Like who, do you do impressions of people we know, or?

MP: I do an impression of Salma Hayek.

Jay: Of Salma Hayek?

MP: Sure. Yeah.

Jay: Really?

MP: Yeah, but I do, you know I'm not very good at impressions, so I basically do, you know,

their second cousins.

Jay: All right, so let's hear some.

MP: (Does a hilarious Salma Hayek impression, saying "she talks like this...") She's a

great actress, we did a movie together, you know, and so at one point, you know, one of the

things I decided to do was do that accent. I hope she's not mad at me.

Jay: No, I'm sure she won't be. So as a process server all you have to do is this right?

(Flashes a piece of paper in front of Matthew and takes it back very quickly). Just touch

the person and it's served?

MP: Yes, it's very scary, it's ridiculous. I mean...

Jay: You just put it in their face (flashes the piece of paper again) and boom, it's

served.

MP: Yeah, you just have to touch the paper, that's their job. So they kind of lurk in the

corners and just serve it.

Jay: yeah, because you see it in movies a lot, or in real life, they just go "gotcha!",

it's like cooties.

MP: Yeah!

Jay: It's just like cooties, you sound like cooties, you got cooties.

MP: After all my months of research, I realized that it was just kind of like cooties.

Jay: What's the scene we're gonna see, what happens?

MP: Oh that, that's Cedric the Entertainer.

Jay: Nobody's funnier than Cedric.

MP: He's my boss in the movie, and he's telling me that I need to go serve Elizabeth

Hurley.

Jay: Let's take a look.

(clip plays)

(crowd cheers)

Jay: Hey, congratulations on the Emmy nominations, are you excited about that?

MP: Thank you, yeah. Yeah, it's really cool. The show did really well, got some Emmy

nods, and...

Jay: I think it's great, ten years, because most shows, the first year, people kind

of(makes hand gesture symbolizing falling ratings), but it's gotten stronger and stronger

each year, right?

MP: The writing's just been good, and, uh, luckily you guys seem to have taken us into your

hearts and(crowd cheers). Thank you.

Jay: You know they keep saying this is the last season, and everyone says THIS is the last

season, and the cast and the crew say we're not doing another season, which opens the door

for, do you think there'll be another season?

MP: (laughs) You know that's the first time I've been asked that!(crowd laughs)

Jay: Really, really!(crowd laughs)

MP: Uh no, I think this is, I think this is it. I mean never say never but it's, we're

certainly looking at this season as a whole year to really close out the stories

Jay: Seal it off. Close up the apartment.

MP: Yeah, close up the apartment.

Jay: It'll be a sad day, but...

MP: Oh it's going to be a really emotional time.

Jay: Hey good luck with the Emmys.

MP: Thanks buddy!

Jay: Matthew, thank you very much!