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Lisa Kudrow Grew ‘Really Angry’ at ‘Friends’ Studio Audience Because They’d Be ‘Laughing Too Long’ When Things ‘Weren’t Funny’: ‘It Irritated Me’
Lisa Kudrow got "really angry" with the "Friends" live studio audience because they would laugh for too longs when things just weren't funny.
Kudrow played Phoebe Buffay on all 10 seasons of the NBC sitcom, and the role earned her six Emmy nominations and one win for best supporting actress in a comedy series. Kudrow noted that “Friends” would often spend six to eight hours filming just one half-hour episode, so the production would do “so many takes” that eventually the audience would “stop laughing. The writers would then react by thinking the material no longer worked, thus forcing rewrites and more takes.
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