RIP Matthew Perry

Some shows, the laugh track is the only indication of where the joke is supposed to be.

 

Exactly. Aniston was an A-Lister for a significant period of time.

For Perry, unfortunately, it’s self-explanatory now.

If you were alive and cognizant in the early and mid-80s, you know who Cox is.

Matt LeBlanc has become this generation’s Ted McGinley.

I remember Schwimmer in Band of Brothers, but can’t remember him or Kudrow in anything other than bit parts since.

 

I'm not Gen X, but you have insulted me, sir! I demand pistols at dawn ... or rather beers at your expense at a reasonable hour. But I demand satisfaction (and not the Stones song)!

 

I just rewatched Band of Brothers from start to finish. “Hi, ho, silver!”

Lol. He really owned that role as a two-bit paper pusher.

 

The result of working full-time in newspapers in the 80s-90s-00s: "Friends" is one of the many teevee shows of which I've never seen a complete episode.
That would also include "Newhart" (the Dick Loudon version) and "Seinfeld," both of which I watched exactly one episode each: the series finales.
Actually my bullshit part time jobs in college-- working in pizza joints and then gas stations -- also had me working pretty much every weeknight with very rare exceptions, so basically from 1977 on I saw very very few network teevee shows. To illustrate, MASH, Happy Days and All In The Family, I watched quite regularly until about 1978, then ... click.
The late seasons of all those shows, I've had to catch up on decades later. Happy Days, literally, I saw almost none of the episodes after Richie left.

 

Schwimmer was nominated for an Emmy playing Robert Kardashian in one of the OJ mini-series. I think he’s turned more to directing and producing.

 

The rest of the Friends have released a statement.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/Culture/friends-cast-releases-joint-statement-honoring-late-star/story

 

It's only a non-thing to me, I suppose. I watch TV to escape making science out of stuff. So I don't try to make a science out of it. Does it entertain me? If so, check this box.

 

Saw the Schwimmer directed play Fault Lines at Cherry Lane Theatre soon after Friends ended.

Wasn’t he also in an episode or two of Curb?

 

Kudrow has done quite a bit of stuff. Hell she was playing Phoebe’s twin sister on another NBC sitcom concurrently!

 

Schwimmer was in Curb for most of a season as Larry's co-star in a production of The Producers that Mel Brooks hoped would bomb so he would never have to produce the show again. He was good.

LeBlanc had a sitcom with Drea de Matteo that went nowhere, but he did a Showtime/BBC show playing himself, which was well respected. He got a few Emmy nominations.