i have a universe in my head

Friends cast final thoughts (May 6, 2004)

when you’re not really fine

What’s your funniest Friends memory? LeBlanc: It feels like so long ago. But what sticks out in my mind was sometimes we couldn’t get though a scene without laughing. It’s the gag reel stuff. Remember that time you had to say … Kudrow: “At Monica’s you can eat cookies over the sink!” Yes, I couldn’t say it! I thought I was getting annoying. LeBlanc: It was so funny. That uncontrollable laugh you have kills me. Lisa’s very ticklish. Kudrow: Why does anyone need to know that! Do you know how many times I told Matt, ‘I am going to hurt you,’ and he would just laugh and keep doing it.  I have to ask, why didn’t Phoebe and Joey ever hook up? LeBlanc: Towards the end we actually pitched the idea that Joey and Phoebe had been having casual sex the entire time. We’d go back and shoot all the historical scenes and just before a moment that everyone recognizes, there’s Joey and Phoebe coming out of a broom closet together. But they were like, ‘Nah.'  How cold was the fountain from the opening credits? LeBlanc: They warmed it up. I had a good time in that fountain, I gotta be honest. Kudrow: I remember it being cold, and we had to do it way too many times. I don’t think we were in the mood or could even look like were having fun anymore, but then Matthew Perry said, “I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t in the fountain,” and we all laughed so hard. I think that’s what’s on TV. LeBlanc: He was always the one in the 1,000th hour of something that everyone was dreading to crack a joke and make us all laugh. He’s the class clown for sure.  What if social media was around in those days? Who do you think would have used it the most? Kudrow: Probably Rachel [Jennifer Aniston]. LeBlanc: Joey wouldn’t have been able to figure it out, and Phoebe would have thought it was stealing her soul. Kudrow: Ross [David Schwimmer] would have wondered why he didn’t have many favorites for his dinosaur tweets.  When’s the last time the gang got back together? LeBlanc: All six of us had dinner recently for Courteney Cox’s birthday. We had so much fun. It felt like no time had passed, but it’d been almost 12 years. Kudrow: Like Matt says, if you’re trapped in a building with five other people for 10 years, when they finally let you out, you scatter!“ 

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