Mindy Kaling has known Conan O'Brien for nearly two decades, but it wasn't until recently that she saw where he lived. "You visited my house not too long ago while I was out of town," the host said on Conan Monday. Mindy clarified, "I didn't break in to Conan's house! I was an invited guest of your wife, Liza."
Conan told the audience that he had "left town to take my kids on a camping trip, and the minute I'm out the door, my wife calls up all these cool women and says, 'Let's have a ladies night.'" He joked, "Like, why can't there be a ladies' night when I'm there? I'm a perv. I just want to watch from the distance."
According to the Why Not Me? author, 35, "It was so much fun. I used to intern at your show back in New York when I was 19, but I largely was just terrified of you. But Liza and I became friends, and I came over to your house and it was really exciting. It was a little bit better that you weren't there, I kind of think, just because I'm kind of a nosy person. I could kind of go through your stuff a little bit more."
Calling it a "wonderful time," Mindy continued, "I had like 11 bottles of your wine. We went kind of crazy. Having never been there, I think you have an idea of what Conan O'Brien's house is going to be like, and I found out it largely wasn't the case. I thought–you know, you're a very tall guy—I thought you would have this long, enormous, huge bed. Like Gandalf's house! I thought there would not be that many windows, maybe, because you're sort of...you're fair. I thought it would be [like] J. R. R. Tolkien."
Feigning shock, Conan joked, "I don't fear the sunlight!"
"He still dwells above ground!" Andy Richter added.
Mindy admitted, "It wasn't the monastic castle that I thought it was. It was a friendly, nice house." Plus, she had a blast getting "wasted" with the comic's wife. As Conan laughingly recalled, "I came back and everybody had kind of a red wine hangover and a lot of stuff was missing. 'My Gandalf bed is gone!'"
Later in the episode, Conan asked Mindy about her sitcom. "Every single episode of The Mindy Project says, 'Caution! Beware!'" he said. The actress and show creator nodded and said, "To the point where now it's just like, 'This is a Godless show. There's too much sex in this show. What are you doing with your life that you're watching this show?' And we try. We're like, 'OK, guys. Let's be classy for once in our lives. Let's not have an episode that needs a warning at the beginning to tell you to hide your children.'"
"It never works, Conan," Mindy said.
"Ultimately," she added, "my inner pervert can't not do these do these episodes."
Conan asked for an example, and Mindy had one at the ready. "There was an episode we did this season that was called 'I Slipped.' We did it, I felt in a way, where we never talked about what it was about, but it was about a boyfriend taking certain liberties with his girlfriend in a kind of heightened, sexual...my love interest in the show, Danny, tries to do something a little different in bed. That one, I couldn't believe that was on Fox," she said. After some back and forth, Mindy informed the audience that the episode was about anal sex. "I feel like I didn't say it and that it was very confusing to people that I didn't," she explained. Conan pretended to be shocked and asked his guest, "It was about what?" Mindy laughed and told the host, "It was about anal sex, which I think I can say on TBS, but I can't say on Fox."
Mindy assured viewers that the anal sex "didn't happen" on TV, explaining, "It was just alluded to. That was one of those ones where...I think it was just confusing enough so that elderly people and young people wouldn't be able to understand what was going on, and then all the perverts in between, they would get it." The actress-writer then marveled, "You can say it a lot on this network, on your show."
"Well," Andy joked, "most TBS sitcoms are about anal sex!"