The US comedy Friends ran extremely successfully from 1994 to 2004 on NBC. As a classic sitcom, it was filmed in front of an audiencewhich did not necessarily make the process easier.
One who would have preferred to use the infamous canned laughter is Lisa Kudrow, who fans of the format know as her friend Phoebe Buffay.
Lisa Kudrow had no patience for the live audience of Friends
Kudrow recently made her problem with the live audience that was invited to the Warner Bros. Studios for authentic laughs public in an episode of the podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend by and with Conan O’Brien (via JoBlo ). She revealed to the show host:
They laughed too long. It wasn’t that funny at all. It wasn’t a genuine reaction and that annoyed me. You’re just ruining the timing of the show. There are other lines of dialogue. Sometimes I would look at them when they had been laughing for too long and just say, “Come on.” I was really angry.
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The cast of Friends, bottom center Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe
After 234 episodes, it is easy to lose your nerve. But Kudrow and her co-stars were also royally rewarded for it and are still among the highest paid TV stars of all time according to ScreenRant. But the actress was thinking primarily of the television audience at the time:
A TV series is not for the studio audience. It is for the TV viewers at home. If it were a stage play, laugh as long as you want. Then I think of something to keep my character occupied until it continues. But when it is filmed, I just stand around. […] You nod and say, “Yeah, I said that,” it’s terrible. Can you stream Friends anywhere?
Yes, all ten seasons of the cult sitcom are available at Netflix in the streaming service. Including the laughs that Lisa Kudrow hated so much. The bittersweet part of the rewatch, however, is the reunion with Friends character Chandler, whose actor Matthew Perry tragically died last year.
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