Karen Gillan Teaches Conan Scottish Phrases | CONAN on TBS

you look absolutely stunning and I love your hair you have red hair Ginger Hair G you guys call it in Europe they call it Ginger Ginger yeah we just call ourselves redheads or the gifted that's so much fun like we really have fun with genetic mutation. it's actually a mutation, monsters, yes, but you call them redheads, redheads, yes, and in the UK they make fun of us, so it's nice to come here when everyone says yes, you have nice hair, really no you find that. when I was a kid I was made fun of oh really yeah, too good for other things too uh but um but uh but no, it's a little more accepted here, but in what you would say in Europe and you grew up in Scotland. yeah, where everyone's redheaded, oh, everyone's redheaded, yeah, like Ireland, yeah, well Ireland, there's the handsome dark-haired Irishman and then there's the cookie elf, Irish like me, um no, I went to He Been to Ireland and there are these incredible ones. like handsome broody Irish people and then I had to be one of the Kookies, uh, but uh, so they're all redheads where you come from, yeah, there's a lot of us, okay, yeah, it's interesting because you're what part of Scotland you're from. de I'm from iness in the highlands next to Loch Ness, you're close to Loch Ness, yes you go to Loch Ness a lot, yes, all the time, really, but you've never seen Nessie.

I guess they call her no, yes, yes, oh, yes. yeah you've seen Nessie for real, yeah just walking around going to the pub, yeah well I always walk by and say hey you're very low key with Nessie, hi Nessie how are you? Your accent isn't that I detect, obviously, but it's not that strong, impenetrable Scottish accent, no, it's not like the Wii cigars, like that, yeah, yeah, where do people come from? glasg oh they're from Glasgow yeah ok can you teach me some good lines? Scottish quotes, you guys have a great way with words, anything good I can learn, okay, here's one, you're a despiser, what are you, we despise, you're a, we despise, what does that mean, does it mean you're a little nuisance , no, no, oh God, it's too late.

Karen just go uh that's good you're a we scunner you're a we scunner you're a we scunner that was pretty good yeah I just made noises you're a we scunner bring me Castle is my Nessie um what what get another one for me um Okay g GE one bag of chips pow what is this G GE a bag of chips pow go get us a bag of chips but what is pow in the end or I'll hit you um no, go um to give us a bag of chips since we don't It's the fries you got here, the fries we got oh um pal pal pal dude oh well yeah oh perfect, I just had a little drunken stroke, but I'm going to be okay. everything will be fine, you know what I'm going to tell you a story, you've heard this a million times, but a couple of years ago a friend of mine got married and he's of Scottish descent and he asked all his friends, the male friends They wore kilts and I did and he told me where to go get them and I bought the kilt and I remember thinking I look good in this thing.

The K's are great. I mean, I wasn't sure, I thought oh no. Looks like I'm wearing a dress again, uh, the police caught me, uh, but I wore it and it looked good, pretty handsome for a man, do you think that's true? Yes, I think whoever I marry has to wear a kilt, I really do. Like all the time not just at the wedding but you know you're a real Scotsman you can't wear anything underneath I've heard that but that makes you laugh I don't know why well I can imagine why uh um how do you like uh Los Angeles?

This is such a big change. You are here now. How about? This is the antithesis of where I am. Yes, everyone works all the time. There is Sunshine all the time. I really can't stand it and yes, they are all very healthy and not everything is fried, yes, you are the woman that I, uh, I don't exercise at all, no wonder and uh and uh, I also love fried foods and I can't expose myself to the sun. I'm like one of the children from Twilight. I can't, yeah, I can't be near the sunlight, no, I need an umbrella, I carry an umbrella, yeah, and everyone hits me, it's tragic, uh.