She’s now had 50 years on this Earth, and I think we can safely say that Lisa Kudrow – who’s certainly smarter than any of the characters she’s played – has given a lot of joy to the world in that time. Dave here to pay the Film Experience's respects to this fine actress. To the world at large, Kudrow will always be Phoebe Buffay, but of all the Friends, she’s surely the one with the spiciest CV after the show. It’s only her affinity for hard-edged, pitiful characters that's kept her from continued mainstream success. For the connoisseur, Kudrow remains one of the most adept comic actresses working. We salute you, Lisa, on your special day.
Watch, learn, and don’t eat her cookie.
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Phoebe Buffay, Friends
If you want to receive e-mails about my upcoming shows, then please, give me money so I can buy a computer.
six more indelible characters after the jump!
which is your favorite?
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Michele Weinberger, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion
Well, ordinarily when you make glue first you need to thermoset your resin and then after it cools you have to mix in an epoxide, which is really just a fancy-schmancy name for any simple oxygenated adhesive, right? And then I thought maybe, just maybe, you could raise the viscosity by adding a complex glucose derivative during the emulsification process and it turns out I was right.
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Alex Whitney, The Simpsons
Your name's Lisa? Shut up, I love that name!
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Mamie, Happy Endings
Javier: [during a massage] This is what you need. This is why you paid.
Mamie: Well, it was... it was a gift certificate.
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Fiona Wallice, Web Therapy
I’m not bored. I mean, I have enough of an inner intellectual life to keep interested in anything that even you can be saying.
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Lucia DeLury, The Opposite of Sex
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Valerie Cherish, The Comeback
Speaking of new career offers, I recently turned down the lead in a TV movie about a woman who’s raped by her entire town.
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Who's your favourite Lisa Kudrow creation?