Jon: Please welcome Peter Krause! Come on!

[Peter enters. Jon meets him and they walk to their seats]

Jon: Congratulations on the new series.

Peter: Thank you very much.

Jon: This thing's going - you know your old series, "Sports Night" they're showing it - Comedy Central bought it.

Peter: That's what I hear. I'm all over TV like a cheap suit these days. Everywhere.

Jon: Can I tell you, though, with Comedy Central buying it you must be seeing mucho Canadian dollars.

Peter: [Laughs]

Jon: That must be big in the ol' syndication market.

Peter: You know what's funny? I haven't even seen a dime yet.

Jon: I - That doesn't sound like this place.

Peter: Doesn't?

Jon: You know what? They sunk all their money into that coffee pot robot.

Peter: Really?

Jon: It's robots that hate each other.

Peter: Is that on Comedy Central?

Jon: Is it? [Laughs]

Peter: I thought it was on ESNP.

Jon: It's our flag-ship thing! We sit here at night like a, what do you call it, a sweat shop building robots to fight. Me and some 8-year-old Indonesian kids. We just sit there: "Get the sodder gun, ya prick!"

Peter: Hey listen, I understand that you celebrated an anniversary here a while ago, 5th, ah, anniversary.

Jon: Not, not me. They did. I've only been here - I've been fired three times.

Peter: Well, at first I was going to, uh, I checked out to see what you'd get somebody on their fifth anniversary, and apparently you're supposed to get a person some wood.

Jon: Is that true?

Peter: Yeah, and, uh -

Jon: May I pass?

Peter: Well, no, I felt a little uncomfortable about that so I figured out that you hadn't been here for five years (there was some other guy here) but I looked up third anniversary, 'cause I hear you've been here for a little over two and a half years, and I -

Jon: I have.

Peter: And I found out that, uh, you're supposed to give people some, uh, leather. Which was - again - I -

Jon: Why don't they just say "give me c**k"?

Peter: I don't know

Jon: Why don't they just say that?

[Both start laughing, audience claps]

Peter: So I just want to say "happy anniversary" for whatever it's worth.

[They shake hands]

Jon: Thank you. I appreciate that. A card would be sufficient.

Peter: Thank you

Jon: What have you been doing with yourself? Are you - are you getting any - you go from one series to another is there any chance to maybe play in a celebrity soft ball game? Go on a RV trip?

Peter: No, I haven't had a chance to do that, but uh, I was so exhausted after "Six Feet Under" that I elected to take the summer off, so -

Jon: It's dark, it's a dark, uh, it's a funeral home!

Peter: [Laughs] It is. It's a very dark show. So I, uh, climbed Mt. Shasta back in June which is pretty cool.

Jon: Where's, uh, where's Mt. Ch - Mt. Shasta? [Laughs]

Peter: What were you going to say? Mou, mou -

Jon: No, I'm sorry, but Mt. Shasta just sounds like there's an A&W root beer at the top of it. What is Mt. Shasta?

Peter: Mt. Shasta is, uh, one of the highest peaks in the 48 states. It's in Northern California.

Jon: Is that true?

Peter: Yeah.

Jon: Now I feel like a loser.

Peter: And, um, well, no, I mean, the highest peak is Mt. Whitney, which is a little bit taller, but -

Jon: That I knew. [Looks knowingly towards the audience] The Shasta had me thrown.

Peter: I climbed Shasta.

Jon: Had you ever climbed a mountain before?

Peter: No, it was my first time. It was kind of terrifying -

Jon: Why are you even - now, you're a successful fella, I'm guessing girls like you - why are you throwing yourself off mountains?

Peter: Uh, well, working on "Six Feet Under" makes me incredibly aware of my mortality so I've been doing some riskier things, I guess, in my life. But, uh -

Jon: Wait, wait, wait, if you were aware of your mortality, wouldn't you stay in like, a Nurf house? Why would you . . . ?

Peter: [Laughs]

Jon: Now that you're aware of your mortality you're like, "I'm aware of my mortality so I drove a bus in a - " You know, I mean, that's - Why don't you take it easy?

Peter: [Laughs]

Jon: I don't know.

Peter: Well, I just thought it would be kinda fun to face my fear.

Jon: You know what? You are no Jew, my friend.

Peter: [Laughs]

Jon: [Laughs] I'm getting tonsillitis just hearing your damn story. Anyway, when do you start working on this again?

Peter: Uh, late September. Sept. 25th we go back to work it starts airing again in March. We get, like, five new episodes left.

Jon: Very good show. I enjoyed meeting you.

Peter: Thanks.

Jon: Peter Krause!