Jesse Tyler Ferguson remembers Matthew Perry on the latest episode of his podcast, Dinner on Me. The Modern Family star invited Lisa Kudrow, who is busy promoting her new project, No Good Deed.
As the actors started talking, Kudrow opened up about her equation with the Friends cast and also remembered the funniest Matthew Perry times.
As the conversation progressed, Tyler Ferguson recalled a conversation with the late actor, who advised the former actor on how to deliver jokes correctly to ensure that the audience received them well. Is.
In conversation with Kudrow, the actor revealed that Perry visited her set, which was built on the exact same spot where the Friends set stood for 10 years. Ferguson and his cast were taping scenes for The Class when the 17 Again star stepped in to watch the filming because he was dating one of Jesse’s co-stars at the time.
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“I think Matthew Perry came to one of our tapings one night,” the Ugly Betty star revealed.
He added, “He was in between scenes and there were scenes that weren’t going well. Writers do that thing where if a joke isn’t working, they all get together and come up with a new joke. And they come and spit it out in front of you and you have to memorize it really quickly and if you start going over with the wrong words or the wrong punchline, (director) Jimmy Burrows stops you so you can make the joke. don’t waste a “High stress situation.”
Reflecting on the advice given to him by the late Hollywood star, the podcast host recalled that Perry came to him and said, “I think it was really a joke to me, and I was having a hard time understanding it. “
Ferguson continued, “Matthew came up to me and said, ‘We used to have this joke when we were shooting guys: When things didn’t work, we’d always say, Oh, you can hear the traffic on Barnum Are.'”
Kudrow was quick to correct the podcaster by quipping that it was Barham, the street outside the studio.
The actor claimed that Perry helped him gain confidence again and that “it was a very special time because I was overlapping with people who were much older than me.”
Matthew Perry died in October 2023 and was buried in Los Angeles. The cast of Friends reunites for Perry’s funeral.
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