Lisa Kudrow has recently revealed the thing that irritated her the most on the set of Friends - and it may sound a little bizarre!
Earlier this month, the actress was forced to set the record straight after her co-star on the hit sitcom, Jennifer Aniston, claimed that she “hated” it when the studio audience laughed during a taping.
Aniston recalled the memory during her episode of Variety's Actors on Actors alongside Abbott Elementary's Quinta Brunson, and while talking about her experience filming Friends, she said: "Lisa Kudrow, by the way, hated when the audience laughed... She'd be like, 'I'm not done! It's not that funny!'"
But Kudrow wanted to make it known that she didn't hate it when they would laugh... just when they laughed a little too long.
Taking to Entertainment Tonight while promoting her new TV series, Time Bandits, Kudrow addressed the entire fiasco.
"No, that's not exactly - no, no. It irritated me if they would laugh for too long," she said.
She continued: "God bless them. They were so excited to be there that sometimes the laughter would just be longer than if they would have laughed at anything else. I was like, 'All right, well, take it easy. It’s not that funny. And there's more to say!'"
She then provided more clarification during an interview on Conan O’Brien's 'Needs A Friend' podcast.
"[I was irritated] because they were laughing for too long. It wasn’t that funny,” she explained to the host. "That’s why. It wasn’t an honest response, and it irritated me.
"It’s like, ‘now you’re just ruining the timing of the rest of the show’. Sometimes I would just look out if they’d been laughing too long, and go, ‘come on’. Really angry."
She also added that the whole point of shows like Friends was the fact that it was made specifically for TV and not a live audience.
"A TV show is not for the studio audience. It’s made for the TV viewers at home. That’s who we’re in service to," she explained. "If it were a stage play – yeah, laugh as long as you want! I’ll figure out things to keep my character busy, waiting to continue with it, that’s fine.
"But then, it’s being filmed, and now I’m just sort of like standing there," she added.
The Emmy winner added that she’d find herself doing “things that you hate” to fill in the space while the audience was laughing, “nodding, like ‘that’s right! I said that!'"
And given the fact that it already took hours to film for just one episode, the laughter extended that time for longer.
Friends was a popular sitcom that ran for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004 before it came to an end, though the cast have remained close friends up until this day.
