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Below, in a bonus Q&A, creators/executive producers David Crane and Marta Kauffman chat about plotting the Friends finale as fans were lobbying for a rekindling of the Ross-and-Rachel romance, why ...
- 15 The Show Was Inspired by Marta Kauffman and David Crane’s Daily Lives
- 11 They Initially Asked Courteney Cox to Play Rachel
- 10 They Were Thinking of Janeane Garofalo When They Wrote The Monica Character
- 9 They Never Meant to Turn Joey Into A ‘Stupid’ Character
- 8 There Was A Version of The Pilot Where Rachel’s Parents Would Show Up
- 7 Someone in Their Writer’s Room Came Up with Joey’s ‘How You Doin’ Catchphrase
- 1 They Definitely Decided That Season 10 Had to Be The End For The Show
“When David and I lived in New York, we had a group of six friends. We were all each other’s best friends. We hung out all the time; we were like a family,” Kauffman told The Cut. “So later, when we were thinking of shows that could have an ensemble cast, it occurred to us to look back at that point in our lives. That was the birth of the idea for ...
“We originally offered Rachel to Courteney Cox, but she said she wanted to do Monica, not Rachel,” Kauffman told Vanity Fair. Crane also recalled, “Courteney had just come off a terrible Bronson Pinchot show, where she played the wife.” Kauffman added, “There was something about Courteney that was adorable.” As you know, Cox eventually got the role...
“When we originally wrote the role, we had Janeane Garofalo’s voice in our head,” Crane told Vanity Fair. “Darker and edgier and snarkier, and Courteney brought a whole bunch of other colors to it. We decided that, week after week, that would be a lovelier place to go to.” Kauffman added, “And more maternal.”
“Joey was never stupid when we pitched the show,” Crane told Vanity Fair. “He wasn’t stupid until we were shooting the pilot, and somebody said, ‘Matt plays dumb really well.’” Kauffman added, “And he had so much heart. Down deep, you just wanted to take care of him. You knew that, at some point, he’d fall in love.”
“In the pilot, the structure is really loose. We started out doing a much more traditional story. It still had to do with Rachel leaving a guy at the altar, but we had an original version where her parents came, and the act break [before going to a commercial] was her parents’ showing up. It wasn’t good,” Crane told Vanity Fair. “We approached it a...
“It was someone in the [writer's] room,” the Friends co-creator revealed to Glamour during an interview. “I don't [remember who]. But when it was first introduced, it wasn't introduced as a catchphrase. It was [just] a line, and then it became a catchphrase as it went along.” That catchphrase remains one of the most recognized ones to this day.
“Because of the actors’ contract negotiations, and it seemed as though, ‘Oh, season 7 is the last season.’ Or season 8. Or season 9. So each of those seasons we had an eye toward, ‘Okay, if this is the last year, what are we doing?’” Crane told Entertainment Weekly. “And then amazingly there was a rising from the ashes, last minute: ‘Oh my god, the...
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Friends is an American television sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons. [1] With an ensemble cast starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, the show revolves around six friends in their 20s and early 30s who live in Manhattan, New York City.
May 26, 2021 · Along with David Crane, Kauffman co-created one of the biggest television shows of all time—the duo also served as executive producers throughout the show's 10-season run, alongside Kevin Bright ...
Jun 3, 2021 · What mostly caught fans' attention was how Friends creators, David Crane and Marta Kauffman, and the executive producer/director Kevin Bright perfectly cast the 6 characters. The show creators provided some wonderful insights on how they got the 6 terrific 20-somethings to do a comedy, and more importantly, what circumstances each of them was ...
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May 6, 2024 · It was watched by 52.5 million people, making it the fifth most-watched series finale in U.S. history. Taped on January 16 and 24, 2004, "The Last One" was a bittersweet, two-part episode with a mix of laughs and tears as Chandler (the late Matthew Perry ), Monica ( Courteney Cox ), Ross ( David Schwimmer ), Rachel ( Jennifer Aniston ), Phoebe ...
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The American sitcom Friends was created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, and produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television Studios for NBC. The series began with the pilot episode , which was broadcast on September 22, 1994; the series finished its ten-season run with the series finale on May 6 ...
