Lisa Kudrow mentioned throughout a current Interview Journal profile that she’s “not attracted” to new multi-camera sitcoms. The ‘Associates’ star thinks it is as a result of new exhibits are “too scared” to make jokes that make audiences “uncomfortable.”
When requested if the sitcom style is evolving or dying, Kurdrow mentioned, “I want they had been evolving. ’30 Rock,’ ‘Seinfeld,’ and ‘Associates’ had been actually humorous and rather well written. However I am not interested in the brand new multi-camera sitcoms in entrance of an viewers as a result of I do not purchase them. I do not know if it is simply because I’ve seen too many sitcoms with one digital camera distinctive – I feel we have to get again to having the ability to inform jokes. I really feel like we’re too afraid of creating jokes that may make individuals uncomfortable.
She added: “However the actually good ones, they don’t seem to be tame jokes. They’re jokes like, ‘I can not consider you simply mentioned that.’ Comedy is about shock. You want stuff you did not see coming.
Kudrow starred because the free-spirited Phoebe Buffay on all 10 seasons of “Associates,” arguably probably the most iconic multi-camera sitcom of all time. Her fundamental castmates had been Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox and Matt LeBlanc. Kudrow’s function in “Associates” earned her an Emmy in 1998 for excellent supporting actress in a comedy sequence.
“The Comeback” star mentioned that in the course of the peak of “Associates,” followers had been at all times telling her they thought Phoebe was “so silly.” Nevertheless, Kudrow by no means interpreted it that manner.
“On the time, it was like, ‘She’s so loopy. How come you solely play ditz?’ And I believed, “Is she silly?” For me, it wasn’t,” she mentioned. “In 1994, it was like, ‘I like him.’ She’s so silly. And it is like, yeah, okay, that is what it was for us. Somebody who didn’t toe the road…. However she wasn’t silly.