Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend
Lisa Kudrow isn’t looking back fondly at her entire experience on “Friends” … revealing the one thing that really bugged her during the taping of the celebrated sitcom.
The actress was on Conan O’Brien‘s podcast when she clarified a confession previously made by her “Friends” costar, Jennifer Aniston … that she was never a fan of the live studio audience.
As Lisa put it … the audience would laugh for too long at a joke — even if it wasn’t entirely funny. Being a performer, this thoroughly annoyed LK, as she thought it wasn’t an honest response to what she and her costars — Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer — were doing on the sound stage.
She added … “It’s like, ‘now you’re just ruining the timing of the rest of the show.’ Sometimes I would just look out if they’d been laughing too long, and go, ‘come on’. Really angry.”
Watch the vid, Lisa doubled down on her stance, too … as she defended a taping for a TV show is not the same as a stage play. Per the actress, the show’s warm-up act would even advise the “Friends” audience against the over laughing … since the show already took hours to shoot.
Lisa’s memories on the show aren’t all negative. In fact, she says she’s now watching “Friends” without embarrassment for the first time … as a way to honor Matthew, who passed away in October 2023.