Lisa Kudrow has confirmed that Friends was all set for a reunion show, but one male cast member refused a multi-million dollar salary to make a comeback appearance. While bosses at US TV network NBC furiously denied the claims, Kudrow has now confirmed proposals for forthcoming shows. She says:
“There is an opportunity for the rest of us to do a reunion show but one member has said no. It’s one of the guys. I’m gutted.”
Well I’m as disappointed as the rest of you, since the last time I saw Friends was two hours ago on Channel 5. No wait, one hour ago. No wait, it’s on right now. Oh look, Ross and Rachel are fighting. Joy. Who wouldn‘t want to see more of this?
FernLaplante | March 27, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Why the hell would we want a reunion show? Friends officially ended only 2 years ago and the show is in reruns 24-7. Plus, it’s not like these 6 actors have faded into oblivion since the show ended, in fact “Joey” is still on NBC!
St.Minutia | March 27, 2006 at 12:10 pm
They should wait until they’re all dead and do a reunion then.
PapaHotNuts | March 27, 2006 at 12:14 pm
Angelina Jolie paid Matt Leblanc $10,000,000 to say no to a reunion show just so she could fuck up Jennifer Anniston’s life a little more. She’s my hero.
Jayne | March 27, 2006 at 12:16 pm
lmao #3
Genius.
tits_on_snack | March 27, 2006 at 12:23 pm
I never watched Friends, and when it finally ended i heaved a great sigh of satisfaction that i wouldn’t have to see it anymore. But it’s still on, every time i turn on the tv. It’s like it never even went away.
ifihadahifi | March 27, 2006 at 12:26 pm
“Friends” is for fags and chicks, or chicks who smoked fags, or fags who chewed chicklets. Whatever, I just never liked it.
ESQ | March 27, 2006 at 12:34 pm
In response to #3 – Glad to see your back buddy, we missed you
Friends needs to do what MASH did and have a reunion just about the time everyone almost forgets about it.
I agree with the majority here, everytime you flip channels you can at least see 2 episodes of friends playing on different channels, scary world we live in….
krisdylee | March 27, 2006 at 12:40 pm
I’ll admit that I was a faithful Friends fan….. (let the heckling begin…) but quite honestly, these reunion shows are the product of some idiot that feels the need to make a bajillion more dollars and who has no idea that these kinds of shows suck the big fat one…
mamacita | March 27, 2006 at 12:45 pm
I bet if any of these people were having a successful career after Friends ended, there would be no talk of a reunion show. I wonder if the holdout was Matt LeBlanc. We all know how super awesome ‘Joey’ is, so maybe he just didn’t want to screw up a good thing. O.K., I couldn’t keep a straight face while typing that.
Italian Stallion | March 27, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Just when I thought my life wasn’t worth living anymore, I see now there is a reason to live. I think I pissed myself in excitement. Wow, a Friend’s reunion, someone call Kevorkian and cancel my 5pm appointment……
SuperSpence | March 27, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Obviously, the male cast member who won’t return is the one whose career is a currently a runaway rocket to the moon of glory and success.
Of course, there is one problem with my theory. See if you can guess what it is.
Evangelia | March 27, 2006 at 1:01 pm
lol #3. that is exactly what must have happened. poor jen. i think i’d rather make out with ross on camera than make out with vince for the paparazzi cameras.
boobtube | March 27, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Always loved this show. Wish ross and monica would finally hook up (my ultimate fantasy, and yours)
SuperSpence | March 27, 2006 at 1:10 pm
#13 BOOBTUBE WROTE: Always loved this show. Wish ross and monica would finally hook up (my ultimate fantasy, and yours)
REPLY: You’re close. My ultimate “Friends” fantasy definitely involved Ross and Monica and two hooks.
BoardBetty | March 27, 2006 at 1:19 pm
Who watched this show enough to warrant a reunion show?!?! Now, what I’m waiting for is a Wonder Years reunion show. That would rock!!!
Hohlraum | March 27, 2006 at 1:30 pm
I liked the episode where Joey and had sex with Ross’s monkey and started the AIDs epidemic.
Spindoc | March 27, 2006 at 1:34 pm
Whos the guy that said no? I just want to know who my hero is.
Kevin | March 27, 2006 at 1:42 pm
I gotta think that the male cast member is “Joey” himself since he’d have to deal with his failed spinoff show.
And honestly, it *is* too soon, like everyone else is saying. Wait 20 more years, or at least until after the Seinfeld reunion show.
sophiecatrupertjerk | March 27, 2006 at 2:00 pm
Maybe the Fonz will make an appearance and jump the shark in the east river.
LoneWolf | March 27, 2006 at 2:16 pm
*School Superintendent Chalmers Voice*
“SchwiMERRRR!!”
Lala | March 27, 2006 at 2:23 pm
The idea of them having a reunion episode, in reality, makes me think of a televised 12-step meeting for their careers.
sometimesboy | March 27, 2006 at 2:49 pm
oh, it’s all good…i can wait another five years until they make the FRIENDS major motion picture…maybe jessica alba will rachel…
Spindoc | March 27, 2006 at 2:55 pm
It will be great for Kudrow’s Ego. “Oh Lisa, we all LOVED your show “The Comeback” on Showtime, we’re SO sorry it got cancelled. People just weren’t ready for such a challanging intelligent show.
It will help her recover from what they said about it on “Jump the Shark” Guess which comment was mine,
Phoenix | March 27, 2006 at 3:10 pm
I’m sooo glad there won’t be a reunion show. Now the cast can get on with their rising careers and continue to be the respected thespians they are and deserve to be. Especially that Jennifer Aniston who has finally shown her true versatility in playing Rachel with different names.
Please note sarcasm.
fanie | March 27, 2006 at 3:10 pm
I think it might be David Schwimmer. Last I heard, he was in London, acting on stage and behaving rather snooty (even with Regis Philbin on his show). Otherwise, I’d say Matt Leblanc.
HughJorganthethird | March 27, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Only way I’m watching this is if the “reunion” takes place in Chechnya and involves beheading and forced emasculation.
sometimesboy | March 27, 2006 at 3:19 pm
ah, #26…emasculation is no longer necessary for anyone in this cast…i hear that courtney cox has really softened up since she had the baby…
CheekyChops | March 27, 2006 at 3:19 pm
If I wanna watch Friends, I’ll tune into one of the many channels that shows the repeats. Gawd.
babyblueeyes | March 27, 2006 at 3:22 pm
I think it is too soon for a reunion, but I love Friends. I still watch it everyday and plan to buy all 10 seasons. I think they are hilarious. Clown me if you must, I don’t care.
boredatwurk | March 27, 2006 at 3:34 pm
#3 lol
I had two roomates that used to watch friends reruns all day and say the lines as the actors said them.
I still have nightmares about it.
Make the bad men stop.
Baysharam Guru | March 27, 2006 at 3:39 pm
It would be interesting to see the Friends take another twist…..say one where Ross is caught humping Monica in the back of a Mini Cooper. Nothing but a little bit of brotherly love can tear Monica away from the efeminate Chandler.
Kelly | March 27, 2006 at 3:42 pm
#3 brilliant. Though I wouldn’t want to touch ross nor vince not even with jen’s acting abilities. Though if monica whiped the floor with rachell, i would SO watch.
Roxie | March 27, 2006 at 5:13 pm
what’s that mean, “I’m gutted”?
cibby | March 27, 2006 at 5:14 pm
er… er…
I’ve seen every episode of Friends…um… twice!
my girlfriend loves the show, and it kind of grows on you, like a stinky fungal infection.
Coco | March 27, 2006 at 5:35 pm
J Aniston was the one who won’t do it you morons!
#11- that was great!!! The problem is that NONE of the guys is “currently a runaway rocket to the moon of glory and success.”
lmoa
Foxbase Alpha | March 27, 2006 at 6:29 pm
Gunther was the one holding out. Serves him right for being dissed so many times on the show!
Probably would have had a more successful spin-off show if they had offered it to him.
Maeve97 | March 27, 2006 at 7:04 pm
Ooh…Wonder Years…good idea…
Reunion shows I’d rather see than Friends:
1. Diff’rent Strokes (although impossible)
2. Family Ties
3.
I got bored writing the list.
Anyone want to discuss the Sopranos?
Lala | March 27, 2006 at 7:27 pm
#33 gutted = very disappointed
oshkoshb-goshdammgosh | March 27, 2006 at 7:38 pm
Phoebe needs to stop snitchin’.
lloydyboy | March 27, 2006 at 8:02 pm
It hurts that they never got rescued from that island.
TaiTai | March 27, 2006 at 10:24 pm
I think there should be a reunion with “Lost,” all the people from all the “Survivor” shows, and “Gilligan’s Island.” Professor could show Sayid how to make a shortwave radio that really works, and the Korean dude can help the Skipper and Gilligan make a boat out of spare parts from the Minnow. Then Rob and Amber and Richard Hatch can use the boat for one of those lame-ass contests to get away from polar bears. The winner gets to sleep with Sawyer, or Kate (winner’s choice). Then they could have some Friends show up as special guest stars who accidentally stumble upon the island but don’t ever rescue anyone.
andrew-film | March 28, 2006 at 3:34 am
You know what, go fuck yourselves! Friends was the most elaborate show in terms of humor. Their comeback is not quite necessary though. But I had fun watching it.
Spindoc | March 28, 2006 at 1:39 pm
#42, Andrew-Film.
Humor was invented near the dawn of time and had it’s first real flowering in the Athenian Golden Age. Other highlights have been early vaudville and the beginnins of TV, as well as some recent breakthroughs such as Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, The Family Guy, Seinfeld. Friends, was popular because there was nothing on against it. If Desperage Housewives, Lost, American Idol etc… has played against Friends it would have been cancelled 6 seasons earlier.
Oh yeah, and Tom Cruise loves the Cock.
gogoboots | March 28, 2006 at 2:36 pm
I wonder who refused…I’m actually SICK of them, they’re all yuppie has-beens, can we just stick to reality TV or something?
LaydeeBug | March 28, 2006 at 8:30 pm
God, please grant me the wish of no reunion show, please god, if you’re up there don’t let it happen. That is like the return to Gilligan’s Island.
caf | April 2, 2006 at 7:56 am
love love love friends…its hilarious-my kind of humour, and there is a reason it was popular…sometimes things are just funny (You can’t seriously think that the ratings it got were purely chance, or that everyone who liked it must be crazy). Desperate Housewives is not what its cracked up to be-its ok, but i have no idea why people think its so spectacular, its not THAT clever…the voice over pisses me off something fierce.
By the way i’m in no way pro-reunion… i love the show but please, its been what? a month? hehe
HollywoodSnark | January 11, 2007 at 11:44 am
that’s a mercy killing if i ever saw one…
levyn | April 19, 2007 at 2:30 pm
it wasn’t Aniston #35, she wanted it, go look it up…
and friends RULEDDD (it still does actually) a reunion should be done at about 2010, with another season or 2, tell me somethin that was better then friends ??? And all this cr*p about how their lives went crumbling after friends, is lame. just because they don’t have great roles in movies, doesn’t mean they suck, and that nobody wants them… They chose to settle down and be with their family/friends ..
SO FRIENDS RULES AND HOPEFULLY THERE’LL BE A REUNION SOMEDAY.
the ones who don’t like it can k*ss my *ss X-D
Justin | July 19, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Friends was an amazing show, and i would love their to be a reunion episode/film aired ASAP. Your comments are so f***kin unnecessarily negative, you are obviously a bunch of anal dwelling butt monkeys!
Bring back friends!