Lucille Ball was the master of that. So natural, people mistakenly thought she was a brilliant on-the-fly improviser, but she was the complete opposite: her physical comedy routines on “Lucy” were meticulously planned out with precision and detail. The “Office” cast say the same thing, in the non-physical department,…

You can set an amount that high when you know people will pay that much. And Friends superfans certainly will.

While there’s a memetic thing about how character is “the worst” on the show, he was probably the best overall actor on "Friends". He was asked to hit a broader range of beats, from tearful emotional beats to broad physical comedy (which he’s REALLY good at), more than anyone else there and hit them all.

Hell, there's people IN THIS VERY THREAD doubling down on their fuckwittery

And, per comments higher up, he seems like a decent guy to boot.  

Power Girdles changed their name to Spanx the Monkey.  

I’m surprised to see any of the cast members getting bashed over James Corden, who annoyed the ABSOLUTE SHIT out of me with his phony Hollywood bullshit. “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ELLIOTT GOULD AND CHRISTINA PICKLES!!!” Ugh it annoys me just hearing it in my head. There is zero chance he didn’t viciously berate a…

100% it was a planned bit. There’s no way it wasn’t flagged by a sound guy ten seconds into rehearsals.

That struck me as a planned bit.

Yeah, taking on a role like Episodes show’s he’s reasonably ego-free. Plus he seemed to have fun with - and it’s rare to have someone in Hollywood recognise that...yeah...rebooting awesome foreign TV shows for American audiences is a damn joke. 

Oh man - total cool uncle who realized not having kids was the key to life vibes.

They should have hired that other British talk show host, Graham Norton. His YouTube channel has been replaying all his various interviews with the Friends actors over the years on a loop, and it’s obvious he would have been the far better choice.

I don’t actually care about the show, but I endured the reunion for the sake of my partner. While it was fairly lazy and seemingly slapped together, David Schwimmer was a standout. I already knew he could act because of Band of Brothers, but even at the table reads I was struck by how he seemed to be the only one…

It’s insensitive to call an AA meeting public.

Are you suggesting that celebrities should expect paparazzi at AA meetings? Cuz that’s unfair. Zero people want that so you can’t say he forfeited his right to that level of privacy by being a celebrity, no.

That would be like a private therapist casually sharing all of a…

I get why people don’t like Corden, but, other than Schwimmer, the Friends brought an enthusiasm level of about 2 to the proceedings, so having Corden as a hype man was probably necessary.

It’s not something I’ve noticed, and I’ve been listening to his podcast 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back. I could just be unaware of it though.

Veneer Lisp is opening for Mannequin Pussy in my town a few weeks from now.

You probably should have said less.

This is extremely shitty of you and I encourage you to delete these comments.