Kristen Wiig does delightfully absurdist Fallon interview as Khaleesi from Game of Thrones

Kristen Wiig has some fun promoting her new movie on The Tonight Show — (Image credit: The Tonight Show)

Perhaps promoting movies on late-night TV just got a little too formulaic for Kristen Wiig, but for whatever reason, she showed up on Wednesday's Tonight Show dressed as Khaleesi, the mother of dragons on Games of Thrones. You don't have to be familiar with the fictional world of Westeros to find the resulting in-character interview amusing — in fact, it's not clear how familiar Wiig is with the HBO pop-cult hit. It's hard to tell just how much of this interview is totally improvised, but the song at the end seems to at least have taken Wiig by surprise. Does it make any sense? Not really — and that's why it's funny. Watch below. —Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.