Friends Star Matthew Perry Dies

BlueHammer85 said:
Well said and doesn’t sound daft, he and the cast made Friends a good comedy and a global success- it’s just the standard nowadays to look cool and edgy by saying ‘it wasn’t funny it was awful’ etc
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It wouldn't be so immensely popular around the world if it wasn't any good.

Also, it is a show that has heart, in a way a lot of US shows manage but British ones rarely can.
 
It's looking more and more like it was a heart attack or some kind of cardiac issue. An 'inconclusive' autopsy but apparently he'd been playing sports earlier in the day and had gone home earlier than usual.

 
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Chandler was the best of the six for me. He was the only one who had an actual "arc" across the entire series as opposed to just the first 60 or 70 episodes. A man who begins the series feeling incomplete, insecure, and completely inadequate, using comedy as a defence mechanism to hide the pain inside, finally meets the person who makes him whole and marries her, mends his dificult relationship with his parents who walk him down the aisle, and eventually trusts himself enough to become a parent knowing that he's broken the generational curse his parents unfortunately handed down to him. And Matthew Perry poured himself into the role to make sure we tracked Chandler's growth along the way. I've still not quite adjusted to the whole thing since I found out on Saturday night/Sunday morning. I watch Friends every day on repeat and have done since I was about 13 years old. Still gutted.
 
SkyBlueFlux said:
“You’re just a person who’s talking who is wrong” is probably the most accurate description of Peter Hitchens I’ve ever heard.
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It’s a bit rich of Hitchins pontificating about addicts doing so out of choice, when he’s clearly made a conscious decision to be a complete ****.

I had a couple of spells of binge watching Friends. Around 2005 and during lockdown. Loved it and laughed a lot on both occasions.

Whenever I saw Perry talking as himself I felt he was a genuine and nice guy. I hope he was significantly at peace when he died. He deserved that.

RIP.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
It’s a bit rich of Hitchins pontificating about addicts doing so out of choice, when he’s clearly made a conscious decision to be a complete ****.

I had a couple of spells of binge watching Friends. Around 2005 and during lockdown. Loved it and laughed a lot on both occasions.

Whenever I saw Perry talking as himself I felt he was a genuine and nice guy. I hope he was significantly at peace when he died. He deserved that.

RIP.
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Peter lived in his brother’s shadow for so long and it’s given him such a complex that he seems determined to find flaws in Christopher’s moral character even though he’s been dead for over a decade.

I suspect his ongoing tirade against addiction is simply an extension of that inferiority complex, especially given his late brother’s proclivities.

Agree on Perry, most of the Friends I watched was through a kind of osmosis from everybody around me watching it, but he certainly gave my friends and family a lot of joy, and always seemed a decent human being, and for that I’m grateful.
 
I never got Friends or American comedy in general. But if I had to pick one to go for a kebab after I don't know how many pints it would have been this fella. RIP man.. Bless
 
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