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“Friends” star Lisa Kudrow said in an interview in late March that sitcoms are “too afraid” of jokes<\/a> that make people uncomfortable, and that she wasn’t drawn to new sitcoms.<\/p>\n

During an interview with actress Lily Tomlin for Interview Magazine<\/a>, Kudrow was asked if sitcoms are evolving or dying.<\/p>\n

“I wish they were evolving. \u201830 Rock\u2019 and ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Friends’ were really funny and really well written. But I\u2019m not drawn to new sitcoms that are multi-camera in front of an audience because I\u2019m not buying it. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s just because I\u2019ve seen too many single-camera sitcoms \u2014 I think we need to get back to being able to tell jokes. I feel like we\u2019ve been too afraid to make jokes that might make people uncomfortable,” she said in the interview published on March 30.<\/p>\n

Kudrow said the “really good” jokes weren’t tame ones, and said they needed to catch audiences off guard.<\/p>\n

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“But the really good ones, they\u2019re not tame jokes. They\u2019re jokes that are kind of, \u2018I can\u2019t believe you just said that.\u2019 Comedy is about surprise<\/a>. You need things you didn\u2019t see coming,” she said.<\/p>\n

Kudrow was also asked if she ever watches herself in shows or movies.<\/p>\n

“I can watch ‘The Comeback,’ no problem. Now I\u2019m comfortable watching ‘Friends’ without punishing myself. I\u2019m trying to have that be my nighttime show, so I have a laugh or two before I go to sleep. There are still episodes I\u2019ve never seen,” she responded.<\/p>\n

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Kudrow said in 2024<\/a> that she couldn’t watch herself on “Friends” because she couldn’t bear it, but that it changed after her former co-star, Matthew Perry<\/a>, died.<\/p>\n

“Well, I used to not be able to watch it at all. I mean, I’d see it on and be, like, mildly interested, and then I’d see me and say, ‘That’s enough of that, I can’t bear it,'” she said during a 2024 interview. “Listen, after Matthew died I could start watching the show again because it wasn’t about me, it had to do with him for some reason.”<\/p>\n

“And, so I have started watching \u2018Friends.\u2019 Not started like season one, you know, but there are marathons on, and I have spent at times, since he died, all day long watching the show,” she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Friends” actress Jennifer Aniston<\/a> said there was a whole generation of people who likely think the show is problematic during a 2023 interview.<\/p>\n

She admitted that things have “evolved” since she began her career but lamented an added layer of “sensitivity” since her days on “Friends,” which ran from 1994 until 2004.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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