Which of the other Friends' actors stand out to you as special??? I'd say Kudrow, because it's pretty hard to find to find anyone who manipulates their voice so effortlessly, but Schwimmer's probably the most underrated.
@@A_Planner_and_a_Dreamer Weirdly I was literally just thinking that 😆Given that Brendon was a tiny bit younger and buffy started airing a couple years later, I wouldn't be surprisd if he took notes from how Matthew perry played chandler bing.
@@A_Planner_and_a_Dreamer I know what you mean seen both the shows, they are both amazing, but i reckon Mathew definitely had more charisma. but they are verryyyyy similar
That's a very fair point. He took self-deprecation humour into the mainstream. I know I learned to take the piss out of myself because of his character on Friends.
Thanks for this. Friends have been criticized a lot lately for the laugh tracks and the out-dated jokes (which of course it was, it's a 'situation comedy' - literally, of the time). Still, I find the cast to be casually charming and capture a genuine warmth for each other that is rare in today's comedy. It was not my favorite sit-com, but it did inspire many other shows I love.
I love watching friends as a comfort show, and i find myself laughing way more often than i thought i would. Sure the laugh track is dated (its annoying when people say “friends isnt funny because when you take out the laugh track its just awkward” like yeah no shit) but i find myself getting attached to the characters and truly loving the show
The laugh track was edited in post, but the entire show was filmed in front of a live audience and they were mic'd up. So it's not all fake laughs. You will very often see the cast take a moment before their next line, waiting for the audience to stop laughing.
It’s weird how much a laugh track adds to a show. The Hitchcock Halloween episode of That 70s Show has no laugh track on the DVD. It episode comes across as awkward. A few years back I watched the same episode on Netflix and it had the laugh track and it was so much better.
Every time I rewatch the series, it is her lines that make me laugh the hardest. Because they're so out there, I don't remember them, and they have the same effect the 10th time that they did the 1st.
In my opinion, in seasons 7-10, Chandler essentially becomes the leading character of the show. Perry, complimented by the writing, fleshed this earlier neurotic albeit comedic tour de force into a devoted husband and the voice of reason for the group.
Wasn't he always their "only sane man" trope (aka. The Jim Halpert aka. The White Clown)? That tends to make characters feel like protagonists, imo. Especially if other "sane" characters succumb to Flanderization over time (looking at you, Ross Geller).
@@Adam_UI was just about to say, chandler was so good in the back ends of the show, and so was Ross. He made me laugh a lot, too. First seasons, not so much 😅
Some years ago I helped a neighbor clear out her late grandmother's apartment. There was a stack of TV Guides on and in the end table, so of course I joked "Hey, she swiped these from Ms.Chanandler Bong!" Which led to laughter, then tears. RIP, Nana G, give Mr. Perry our best and our thanks.
Even though I never met him in real life, Matthew Perry meant a lot to me. He inspired my sense of humor, and other aspects of my personality. I can’t believe that he’s gone. In the words of Janice, “Goodbye, Chandler Bing”
I think out of all the actors, Perry understood the format of the sitcom better than anyone. As much as I'm not actually a fan of Seinfled and post Seinfeld sitcoms, Perry is the one who nailed that tone that they were going for in earlier seasons, and then he went on to develop his style that as sitcom and comedy tastes changed going into the 2000s.
He was definitely bigger than TV. He had a mind for the stuff that only comes around once in a generation. He would have been a comedy behemoth even without Friends being a behemoth because he just understood comedy differently from anyone else. Most people see the world as a series of shapes and colours, Perry saw it as a series of setups and punchlines. He genuinely could have taught a real life Sarcasm 101 class
Chandler was always my favorite because as an egotistical teenager going through an emo phase, all I wanted in life was to be sarcastically funny. I ended up just being an unfunny edge lord with 0 friends. Nevertheless, Thank you for your work Matthew Perry.
That was lovely. I too am wildly enamoured by Kudrow's vocal range, her work in The Comeback and Web Therapy was fantastic. And I agree with you on Schwimmer's comedic timing. But as I rewatch Friends, I keep being impressed by Aniston impeccable sense of picking up the right tone and rhythm, as well as voice modulation. People were so focussed on her hair and beauty that her strong comedic chops got ignored.
she was hilarious in awkward situations, especially those mishaps with her boss at ralph lauren who "wanted to buy her baby" and all the silly situations with joshua.
Don't forget her nipples, cast members seven and eight during the early seasons. You're right, though, that she deserves to be remembered for more than that or her hair.
Friends is such an entertainment gem. All the 6 of them are comedic gold on their own. I always had the idea in the back of my mind that even though I've seen sporadic episodes of The Friendship Show throughout my life, I never sat to watch them in order nor I've watched the 1st season. So I started doing so and I laughed way more than I expected. I laughed more than I do usually watching videos, of any kind (even SU comedy). It really is a great show. It's great acting, they have great chemistry, the writing is great (or as they often tell us without using words when this topic is brought up, they made up for the bad writing that was mixed up in the good and improvised well on their own too)... It's so delicious to watch. It's the sort of thing that doesn't happen that often not only in TV but in life. Everything feels in its place.
It's a testament to how amazing her boobs looked that people missed her great acting performance. It's like, every episode they found a new way to present her boobs in a different light that you may have missed she was doing the same with Rachel, the character. It's only the last season or two that she became really repetitive and annoying, and I think it's no coincidence that her boob game wasn't as strong.
I think the best example of his comedic timing was the time when Ross (IIRC) tried to make a joke, and Chandler told him off for the bad timing and then re-delivered the exact same line and it was hilarious. Indeed, I'm really surprised that none of the retrospectives I've seen use that example of his timing, as it's so much about his timing (not sure if it was scripted or ad-lib, though).
I’m not a fan of friends (far from it actually) but this video feels so heartfelt and full of genuine love and warmth for a piece of media, and even more importantly, a human whom countless people around the world grew to know and love through said piece of media. May he rest in peace
I bet he felt so cursed, being the reason for joy for so many people who laughed with him or at him and yet not being able to escape his own suffering that life threw at him. RIP to a legend.
As someone who is depressed but is committed to making my friends laugh, I couldn't agree more. It's hell, because I want them to laugh and I'm glad they do, but I just can't feel it because I don't know what happiness and pleasure are. As my psychologist rightly pointed out, my brain can understand the concepts of pleasure and happiness in others, but I can't actually feel them because they are foreign to me - because, due to the many traumatic events I've had to suffer, I've never really felt them. So, yes, it must've been hell for him.
my friend at school used to tell me that i reminded her of Chandler Bing with my self-deprecation and sarcasm before i even watched Friends. i would sort of laugh and shake it off, not really thinking about it because i didnt even really know who Chandler Bing was. She still says it to me, but now ive watched Friends, i take it as the best compliment ive ever had. Matthew Perry has become such an inspiration to me, especially as i also live to make people laugh. thats what i love to do, same as him. So, while Matthew Perry's death is unspeakably awful and it makes me cry to think of it, im going to do my part in keeping his humor alive. RIP Matty, we all loved you
Chandler / Matthew literally scripted the internal comedic language in my brain that my sense of humour is written in now; when I laugh at jokes or find anything remotely funny in life, I can honestly say the extent at which I do so is, more often than not, directly proportional to how similar it is to an existing Chandler joke / situation. The man is more than influential, he is literally a part of me. Which is why I'm weirdly not so sad about his passing, because it feels like he's never left me / my brain. I can't begin to say how grateful I am to Matthew for adding so much colour to my life with Chandler, and more importantly continuously helping me in tough times; he could say anything and I would find it funny honestly. RIP King Chanandler Bong 👑 P.S. Could this comment BE anymore icky
Thank you for making me understand why I've been strangely alright despite his passing and that I'm not alone in that. I'm extremely sad about it but he doesn't feel gone at all.
i feel the same way really. chandler showed me that even i, a nerdy awkward kid back then, can still be funny and interesting. i related to him so much.
Oh my God you described it perfectly. I related to Chandler so much watching the show it added to the way my brain filters life. I laugh at things no one else finds funny but man, you just know Chandler would make a great joke about it. His comedic voice is in my head all the time.
We can all agree Matthew Perry as Chandler was perfection, but in an interview Perry said he wanted to be remembered not as Chandler Bing, but as someone you can go to when you’re struggling with addiction. He wanted to use his negative experiences to inspire others. That’s admirable
That's a wonderful insight. He needed people to react so that he knew which buttons to press. I wish he became a full-time standup comedian. He would have filled up stadiums.
Speaking of physicality, not to downplay Perry's talent but rather to highlight a talent a bit underappreciated, Schwimmer really get the gold medal I think. His character is always funny to laugh at rather as with, and some improvised moments are just insane. Of course, in both case it worked because the others could play along, so it's a group testament really.
The problem was with writing, they made Ross the main character of the show but he constantly went on and off for Rachel, so it didn’t had the same effect as chandler, who was just as funny but was more relatable
@@dmb1745 I think so too. I'm not actually a big Friends fan, but I feel like he's just a very strong actor (see band of brothers) and talented in a physical sense that's become a bit rarer in comedy? I don't know. I really feel like he could have been in a lot of things in the past 20 years.
he’s really funny but i think ross’ bad behaviour made many people really start to detest him. i still like him and still enjoyed his presence in the show, but this is what ive heard from others lol
@@serene3175 awe my basements not that dusty. don't you have some taylor swift to listen to or more tears to shed over people who don't give a sht if you exist 😂
Most days I feel extreme sadness and grief about his passing. I really connected with Matthew's own life through his book and his own struggles with addiction, as well as his humour and self-deprication. I love that a foundation was made in his name for those struggling with addictions, which makes it a bit easier, but still it hurts that a great person left without sharing his life with someone special or even with kids. But I guess through Friends is how he'll live on, we're here and always have been with him even if he felt alone, which is the same for any of us who go through periods of loneliness and depression. "I'll be there for you, like I've been there before. I'll be there for you, cause you're there for me too". RIP Matthew Perry. Scene It ended it really well, with the idea that he's in a place where he can still make people laugh. Thank you
I have always been a super casual fan. I really just watched random episodes if they were on TV, or watched random clips, but I still found Chandler to be the funniest. I legit forgot that he'd passed away until the end of this video, and it hit me like a ton of bricks. Rest in piece Matthew Perry.
I love Friends and I agree Matthew Perry was probably the funniest of the bunch, but you do realize when you talk about pauses and timing that all your examples are actually editing decisions? It makes no sense to time the cut at 2 seconds when it's possible that maybe IRL his pause was only 1 second. The pause can easily be made shorter or longer in the editing room. If you want to talk timing, you need to look at jokes where there are no cuts.
I always find it ridiculous when people say “take out the laugh track to find out how unfunny Friends is”. Well, no shit lol Remove the laugh track from any sitcom and it loses almost all of the humour.
@@WL1264 No lol People only ever use this argument about Friends when it rings true for every sitcom. I get that it’s trendy to bash Friends but try to be objective.
@@07foxmulder yes all sitcoms that use laugh tracks are shite. The older ones get an excuse maybe. But definitely not friends. Friends and big bang theory get crapped on a lot coz they're very popular and had alot of seasons.
Chandler was my spirit sitcom character, now that I'm older and fatter and have become a father it's Doug Heffernan, but I'll always have a special place in my heart for Chandler. RIP you were one of the greats...
I always loved Chandler the most. Friends was great, and Matthew Perry was such a fun, relatable guy with great comedic timing. His film Fools Rush In with Salma Hayek is one of my go-to comedies when I'm having a tough time, it never fails to cheer me up. I miss him.
I know this video is about Perry but reducing Jennifer Anison to being good at being "ditzy" is crazy talk. She turned even non-jokes into funny moments. I think she was as funny as Perry but people overlook her comedic chops.
I haven't watched the show itself, but none of the "funny jokes" compilations on UA-cam managed to get a smile out of me and the laugh track makes it worst. I wonder what makes it funny to other people.
Friends may not be the best show ever made, it might not even be the best sitcom ever made, but boy, did I love Chandler Bing. I was always characterised as a "Chandler" type person and I saw that growing up. My household was Friends obsessed and I grew up watching it all the time and I always gravitated towards Chandler on the show as my favourite character, as well as being someone I highly related to so when I heard of Matthew Perry's passing, I had a very strong reaction to that. Normally, when a celebrity you like passes away, I would be sad for a day or two but you eventually move on from it, its sad that they are not here anymore but I never knew them personally and I was never friends with them... but with Matthew Perry, that didn't pass as easily, someone I had become so connected to growing up. I haven't ever or since felt that connection to another celebrity as much as I did with Matthew Perry and I will always treasure that. Gonna miss you, Friend.
Dang, interesting you made the link to Robin Williams, he's the only other celebrity who left me with lingering blues for a few days, it hadn't even occurred to me how similar the two of them are, and how evidently I must relate to both of them
I always thought it was sad that he never married or had kids. I hear he wanted to but the drugs... The guy had a dark side and I say this out of sympathy not condemnation.
This is a really beautiful tribute to Matthew. This seriously got to me. It's also really impressive how you've made an actual good Video Essay! Not a lot of Video Essays like this on UA-cam anymore. Thank you for this!
You gotta understand that in most of the cases you've shown here, the comedic timing was the result of editing, not the actor's performance. Not to say he was a bad actor in any way, just that your examples don't really prove the point.
If you liked him in Friends I can’t say enough good about the 1 season NBC show “Go On”. It was brilliant, and let Perry shine in a slightly more mature, but very funny role. Check it out if you can find it. After that, “The Odd Couple” was a terrible show. So sad to see that misstep.
I came into this video thinking about how great Matthew Perry was at his character. Almost at the end and I just remember how great they all were at their characters. What a fun ride.
When a favoured actor dies, you go 'I kinda liked him. Oh well!' And you get on with your life. When a comedian passes away, you kinda feel that part of you has died as well.
seeing the thumbnail: omg matthew perry seeing the title: oh don’t you dare seeing the upload date: HOW COULD YOU seeing the creator: ohh *clicks video*
Friends has been my favourite show for many, many years, one I never tire of returning to. It’s like a home, like a group hug, always so warm and fuzzy. I don’t know how I’ll manage to go through it without tears - even this bittersweet video has made me cry. The cast is amazing, they really sell you on the idea that this is the most tightly knit friend group. Chandler has always been my favourite of the bunch, and Perry played the primary role in that. He had an infectious smile that really brightened up his face. I’m very sorry about all his struggles in life, I wish things hadn’t gone this way for him. He seems to have been a lovely person, deserving of so much of the happiness he has brought into my life. May he rest in eternal light.
"when i die, i want helping others to be the first thing that is mentioned" - Matthew Perry. Please look into, donate, or just talk about The Matthew Perry foundation.
yes the actors have to wait for heavy laughter to calm down but thats not the only reason why he is pausing, in the example you can see how he waited to say the line even after the laugh track was gone
@@morfy2581 right, which is how everyone performs in front of a live audience. It's all contextual, don't get me wrong his timing is better than most of the cast. But all I see is the lowest common denominator type of sarcasm. It feels very Disney Channel, I can find the same type of Talent on Drake and Josh or That's So Raven. He was totally a funny guy but not like an arbiter of a new form Sarcasm.
@@DragonKeeper69 His sarcasm wasnt the best part but the timing and physicallity was where he shined, he had so much energy and emoted in a physically funny form, for me at least. And no, he is continueing pauses even after the laughter stops. And there are also jokes initialized from silence which he times neatly.
In comedy, timing is everything. Laugh track or none. Matthew had it to perfection. And I will say the whole cast had👌timing. I am so sad over his passing, still hard to believe but for the people who were his friends......💔😔. Thanks for this lovely tribute💖.
I don't buy that marketing, he is sure overrated as being the '' funniest '' . He was as fun as the writers wanted him to be, plus imo his acting was on the same level as the rest of the crew. Sincerely, I think the actor of Ross was the best.
You do know that other people wrote the lines for him , and he had direction . imo in the grand scheme of comedy greats he is insignificant, have you even heard of George Carlin , cutting edge standup for fifty years
"but kudrow can do anything" THANK YOU SHES SO TALENTED!!!!!!! I think shes gorgeous but it goes to show how conventional pretty privilege overshadows everything
Something about Matthew Perry's passing hit me harder. Part of it is definitely how much we all related to Chandler, and that I grew up with Friends, but honestly anything I watched him in he filled me with warmth. I think a lot of the sadness for me is that we should have seen him more, beyond Friends. He was such a brilliant actor, and not just as a comic. It was always a travesty that Studio 60 got cancelled after one season, and now that's even more so.
Just restarted Friends, I've only been through it once like 5ish years ago, and i think in the first 7-8 episodes I've watched Perry's delivery has cracked me up every time.
Matthew Perry was legendary. I was never much of a Friends fan, but I kept watching those reruns just for Chandler. The dude's infectiously funny and super expressive. Lively as all get out. Pure talent, pure funny. I loved his portrayal of the villain in Fallout: New Vegas, too. He just sold the role. I had a History of Rock and Roll professor last semester, when Matthew passed on, and he said that he was a teacher at some school where a lot of actors went when they were younger (don't recall what he said the school was, but I assume it was something about performing arts in general, as the professor was a professional musician and is a conductor) and said that Matthew Perry was always just a funny dude and made everyone around him happy at that school. You will be missed, Matthew. Thank you for your contributions and for taking the pressure of the world off our shoulders with laughter.
I recognize all the good parts of his humor thanks to you. However I also remember him as the most outwardly misogynistic and homophobic member of Friends. Both are true.
Funny you say that because for the first and second season it's clear writers didn't know what to do with his character and it was implied that he was gay. He crossdressed as a kid, had his parents divorce ,wasn't his dad gay at some point? That and the fact that he lived with Joey. Just look at his mannerisms, he was acting fruity and zesty a lot.
What a great tribute! I've rewatched the show so many times since I first stumbled across a UA-cam clip almost 10 years ago. Despite the laugh tracks, its comedy and plot seem to stand the test of time for me (minus some of the political incorrectness), and I find something new to appreciate every time I re-watch it.
I could never really get into Friends as a show, but when other people had it on and I happened to be in the room I would laugh now and then... And it was always from his bits.
Which of the other Friends' actors stand out to you as special??? I'd say Kudrow, because it's pretty hard to find to find anyone who manipulates their voice so effortlessly, but Schwimmer's probably the most underrated.
funniest moment in friends imo is ross playing his shite music, david schwimmer is great
Ross was the best friends character... After Chandler
It’s Chandler Bing! No doubt about it
Schwimmer saved the show and got all the other actors paid. He was special off of the screen in a way no others were.
All of them!
And a honorable mention to the actress that played Janice
no one would’ve played Chandler Bing better than Matthew Perry
0:47 - 0:49 😍
Nicholas Brendon from Buffy would have. Virtually the same voice, style of humor, and method of delivery.
@@A_Planner_and_a_Dreamer Weirdly I was literally just thinking that 😆Given that Brendon was a tiny bit younger and buffy started airing a couple years later, I wouldn't be surprisd if he took notes from how Matthew perry played chandler bing.
I could’ve
@@A_Planner_and_a_Dreamer I know what you mean seen both the shows, they are both amazing, but i reckon Mathew definitely had more charisma. but they are verryyyyy similar
i think he really is the reason that an entire generation took on self-deprecation as THE form of casual humour in the 2010s
Could you BE any more right?!
of pro humor too. A lot of stand-up comedians based their careers on self-deprecating comedy in the 2010s.
That's a very fair point. He took self-deprecation humour into the mainstream. I know I learned to take the piss out of myself because of his character on Friends.
I mean, he is kinda just bringing Australian/British sarcasm to the American audience.
this is literally how i found my husband
Thanks for this. Friends have been criticized a lot lately for the laugh tracks and the out-dated jokes (which of course it was, it's a 'situation comedy' - literally, of the time). Still, I find the cast to be casually charming and capture a genuine warmth for each other that is rare in today's comedy. It was not my favorite sit-com, but it did inspire many other shows I love.
it gets a lot of hate from people who've never actually watched it and just find the fans annoying
I love watching friends as a comfort show, and i find myself laughing way more often than i thought i would. Sure the laugh track is dated (its annoying when people say “friends isnt funny because when you take out the laugh track its just awkward” like yeah no shit) but i find myself getting attached to the characters and truly loving the show
The laugh track was edited in post, but the entire show was filmed in front of a live audience and they were mic'd up. So it's not all fake laughs. You will very often see the cast take a moment before their next line, waiting for the audience to stop laughing.
It’s weird how much a laugh track adds to a show. The Hitchcock Halloween episode of That 70s Show has no laugh track on the DVD. It episode comes across as awkward. A few years back I watched the same episode on Netflix and it had the laugh track and it was so much better.
Yet those same people can never shut up about The Office.... lol@@thebasedgodmax1163
"and kudrow, she could do anything" yess she's so amazing
So many shows have tried to copy Friends but Phoebe/Lisa is really something that cant be recreated
Every time I rewatch the series, it is her lines that make me laugh the hardest. Because they're so out there, I don't remember them, and they have the same effect the 10th time that they did the 1st.
She couldn't be Roz in Frasier. They fired her in 3 days
No, she was the most boring one out of the cast. Because she could do anything there's nothing defining her and well she was a Jack of all comedy
@@GrimTheDestroyer she was the funniest one in the cast dude
In my opinion, in seasons 7-10, Chandler essentially becomes the leading character of the show. Perry, complimented by the writing, fleshed this earlier neurotic albeit comedic tour de force into a devoted husband and the voice of reason for the group.
Yeah the story was so messed up in later seasons and Perry was still doing insanely well with the comedy
@@brandiepopthe plot was bad but Chandler was still good?
Ross gets really good in later seaaons too
Wasn't he always their "only sane man" trope (aka. The Jim Halpert aka. The White Clown)? That tends to make characters feel like protagonists, imo. Especially if other "sane" characters succumb to Flanderization over time (looking at you, Ross Geller).
@@Adam_UI was just about to say, chandler was so good in the back ends of the show, and so was Ross. He made me laugh a lot, too. First seasons, not so much 😅
Chandler was definitely the best character of Friends for me and Mathew Perry's performance always made it better. R.I.P. Ms. Chanandler Bong.
He was. And Joey.
Some years ago I helped a neighbor clear out her late grandmother's apartment. There was a stack of TV Guides on and in the end table, so of course I joked "Hey, she swiped these from Ms.Chanandler Bong!" Which led to laughter, then tears.
RIP, Nana G, give Mr. Perry our best and our thanks.
@@mbryson2899 Ms. Bong gave it to her after moving in with Monica
I'm really happy you didn't talk about his personal struggles in any depth. Best introspective of him as an actor I've seen yet.
Totally agree
Even though I never met him in real life, Matthew Perry meant a lot to me. He inspired my sense of humor, and other aspects of my personality. I can’t believe that he’s gone. In the words of Janice, “Goodbye, Chandler Bing”
same
same here too
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“YOU CANT LEAVE, I HAVE YOUR SHOE!!”
This, probably the only line that makes me laugh and cry at the same time ❤
I think out of all the actors, Perry understood the format of the sitcom better than anyone. As much as I'm not actually a fan of Seinfled and post Seinfeld sitcoms, Perry is the one who nailed that tone that they were going for in earlier seasons, and then he went on to develop his style that as sitcom and comedy tastes changed going into the 2000s.
He was definitely bigger than TV. He had a mind for the stuff that only comes around once in a generation. He would have been a comedy behemoth even without Friends being a behemoth because he just understood comedy differently from anyone else. Most people see the world as a series of shapes and colours, Perry saw it as a series of setups and punchlines. He genuinely could have taught a real life Sarcasm 101 class
yeh in the first 2 seasons every character was Chandler basically, they all tried to do that snappy quippy dialogue.
Chandler was always my favorite because as an egotistical teenager going through an emo phase, all I wanted in life was to be sarcastically funny.
I ended up just being an unfunny edge lord with 0 friends.
Nevertheless, Thank you for your work Matthew Perry.
felt
😂
It's okay, take ur time and try to make some sarcastic non-dark jokes once in a while. If that becomes a habit then, VOILAAA
Did you come out of it though? Happens to many, actually
@@guodaripinskaite6314 Yes I did
That was lovely. I too am wildly enamoured by Kudrow's vocal range, her work in The Comeback and Web Therapy was fantastic. And I agree with you on Schwimmer's comedic timing.
But as I rewatch Friends, I keep being impressed by Aniston impeccable sense of picking up the right tone and rhythm, as well as voice modulation. People were so focussed on her hair and beauty that her strong comedic chops got ignored.
she was hilarious in awkward situations, especially those mishaps with her boss at ralph lauren who "wanted to buy her baby" and all the silly situations with joshua.
Don't forget her nipples, cast members seven and eight during the early seasons. You're right, though, that she deserves to be remembered for more than that or her hair.
Friends is such an entertainment gem. All the 6 of them are comedic gold on their own. I always had the idea in the back of my mind that even though I've seen sporadic episodes of The Friendship Show throughout my life, I never sat to watch them in order nor I've watched the 1st season. So I started doing so and I laughed way more than I expected. I laughed more than I do usually watching videos, of any kind (even SU comedy).
It really is a great show. It's great acting, they have great chemistry, the writing is great (or as they often tell us without using words when this topic is brought up, they made up for the bad writing that was mixed up in the good and improvised well on their own too)... It's so delicious to watch. It's the sort of thing that doesn't happen that often not only in TV but in life. Everything feels in its place.
It's a testament to how amazing her boobs looked that people missed her great acting performance. It's like, every episode they found a new way to present her boobs in a different light that you may have missed she was doing the same with Rachel, the character. It's only the last season or two that she became really repetitive and annoying, and I think it's no coincidence that her boob game wasn't as strong.
Vocal range? Her voice is always the same in everything.
I think the best example of his comedic timing was the time when Ross (IIRC) tried to make a joke, and Chandler told him off for the bad timing and then re-delivered the exact same line and it was hilarious. Indeed, I'm really surprised that none of the retrospectives I've seen use that example of his timing, as it's so much about his timing (not sure if it was scripted or ad-lib, though).
what episode was this?
I can't remember,@@riyavarshney. I've been trying to find it ever since I heard of Perry's death.
Do you mean "The one with the joke"?
The one published in Playboy? I don't think it's that episode,@@Spls32.
If you do find it let me know!
I’m not a fan of friends (far from it actually) but this video feels so heartfelt and full of genuine love and warmth for a piece of media, and even more importantly, a human whom countless people around the world grew to know and love through said piece of media. May he rest in peace
I bet he felt so cursed, being the reason for joy for so many people who laughed with him or at him and yet not being able to escape his own suffering that life threw at him. RIP to a legend.
that's the ironic character of most people's work. We seem to have a huge blind spot about ourselves.
As someone who is depressed but is committed to making my friends laugh, I couldn't agree more. It's hell, because I want them to laugh and I'm glad they do, but I just can't feel it because I don't know what happiness and pleasure are.
As my psychologist rightly pointed out, my brain can understand the concepts of pleasure and happiness in others, but I can't actually feel them because they are foreign to me - because, due to the many traumatic events I've had to suffer, I've never really felt them.
So, yes, it must've been hell for him.
Oh he was an extremely sad man, his comedy clearly came from a deep darkness inside him, it's a shame he was so swallowed up by it
In the words of Bob Newhart: "Just stop it!"
Friends still are an antidepressant of choice and Chandler's loss, is one hell of a big pill to swallow! Love you man....
my friend at school used to tell me that i reminded her of Chandler Bing with my self-deprecation and sarcasm before i even watched Friends. i would sort of laugh and shake it off, not really thinking about it because i didnt even really know who Chandler Bing was. She still says it to me, but now ive watched Friends, i take it as the best compliment ive ever had. Matthew Perry has become such an inspiration to me, especially as i also live to make people laugh. thats what i love to do, same as him. So, while Matthew Perry's death is unspeakably awful and it makes me cry to think of it, im going to do my part in keeping his humor alive.
RIP Matty, we all loved you
Chandler / Matthew literally scripted the internal comedic language in my brain that my sense of humour is written in now; when I laugh at jokes or find anything remotely funny in life, I can honestly say the extent at which I do so is, more often than not, directly proportional to how similar it is to an existing Chandler joke / situation.
The man is more than influential, he is literally a part of me. Which is why I'm weirdly not so sad about his passing, because it feels like he's never left me / my brain.
I can't begin to say how grateful I am to Matthew for adding so much colour to my life with Chandler, and more importantly continuously helping me in tough times; he could say anything and I would find it funny honestly.
RIP King Chanandler Bong 👑
P.S. Could this comment BE anymore icky
Thank you for making me understand why I've been strangely alright despite his passing and that I'm not alone in that. I'm extremely sad about it but he doesn't feel gone at all.
i feel the same way really. chandler showed me that even i, a nerdy awkward kid back then, can still be funny and interesting. i related to him so much.
Oh my God you described it perfectly. I related to Chandler so much watching the show it added to the way my brain filters life. I laugh at things no one else finds funny but man, you just know Chandler would make a great joke about it. His comedic voice is in my head all the time.
What a touching, heartfelt, and fully accurate take on a wonderful performer
We can all agree Matthew Perry as Chandler was perfection, but in an interview Perry said he wanted to be remembered not as Chandler Bing, but as someone you can go to when you’re struggling with addiction. He wanted to use his negative experiences to inspire others. That’s admirable
That's a wonderful insight. He needed people to react so that he knew which buttons to press. I wish he became a full-time standup comedian. He would have filled up stadiums.
Speaking of physicality, not to downplay Perry's talent but rather to highlight a talent a bit underappreciated, Schwimmer really get the gold medal I think. His character is always funny to laugh at rather as with, and some improvised moments are just insane. Of course, in both case it worked because the others could play along, so it's a group testament really.
I too think schwimmer is just as hilarious as perry, they're both goated but in slightly different ways haha
The problem was with writing, they made Ross the main character of the show but he constantly went on and off for Rachel, so it didn’t had the same effect as chandler, who was just as funny but was more relatable
Ross became my favourite character after his mental breakdown in Season 5. Schwimmer's comedic talent is underrated fr
@@dmb1745 I think so too. I'm not actually a big Friends fan, but I feel like he's just a very strong actor (see band of brothers) and talented in a physical sense that's become a bit rarer in comedy? I don't know. I really feel like he could have been in a lot of things in the past 20 years.
he’s really funny but i think ross’ bad behaviour made many people really start to detest him. i still like him and still enjoyed his presence in the show, but this is what ive heard from others lol
Oh gosh. Tears again. Thank you for this. Matty will forever be our friend that is there for us when we need someone to laugh with.
Tears? Did you know him lmao? If not no excuse
@@jetrifle4209 no excuse for what? mourning his death? grow tf up
@@serene3175 oh go cry about it
@@jetrifle4209 go back to whichever dusty basement you crawled out of and watch attack on titan for the third time
@@serene3175 awe my basements not that dusty. don't you have some taylor swift to listen to or more tears to shed over people who don't give a sht if you exist 😂
Most days I feel extreme sadness and grief about his passing. I really connected with Matthew's own life through his book and his own struggles with addiction, as well as his humour and self-deprication. I love that a foundation was made in his name for those struggling with addictions, which makes it a bit easier, but still it hurts that a great person left without sharing his life with someone special or even with kids. But I guess through Friends is how he'll live on, we're here and always have been with him even if he felt alone, which is the same for any of us who go through periods of loneliness and depression. "I'll be there for you, like I've been there before. I'll be there for you, cause you're there for me too". RIP Matthew Perry.
Scene It ended it really well, with the idea that he's in a place where he can still make people laugh. Thank you
"Rest Well" I like this note. I like this way more than RIP or many others people use.
It's a great choice of words.
I have always been a super casual fan. I really just watched random episodes if they were on TV, or watched random clips, but I still found Chandler to be the funniest.
I legit forgot that he'd passed away until the end of this video, and it hit me like a ton of bricks.
Rest in piece Matthew Perry.
I'll never stop laughing at his jokes, and I'm pretty sure that's what he would have wanted.
We all miss you Matthew ❤
This is the perfect tribute. Thank you so much
this is the tribute matthew wouldve wanted 🤍
I love Friends and I agree Matthew Perry was probably the funniest of the bunch, but you do realize when you talk about pauses and timing that all your examples are actually editing decisions? It makes no sense to time the cut at 2 seconds when it's possible that maybe IRL his pause was only 1 second. The pause can easily be made shorter or longer in the editing room. If you want to talk timing, you need to look at jokes where there are no cuts.
Could he BE any more perfect for the role?
Could this video BE anymore perfect?
Rest easy, Matthew Perry. ❤️
I always find it ridiculous when people say “take out the laugh track to find out how unfunny Friends is”. Well, no shit lol Remove the laugh track from any sitcom and it loses almost all of the humour.
So that's a problem.
If you're relying on a laugh track it's cheating.
You're proving the point ppl are trying to make
@@WL1264 No lol People only ever use this argument about Friends when it rings true for every sitcom. I get that it’s trendy to bash Friends but try to be objective.
@@07foxmulder yes all sitcoms that use laugh tracks are shite. The older ones get an excuse maybe. But definitely not friends.
Friends and big bang theory get crapped on a lot coz they're very popular and had alot of seasons.
Chandler was my spirit sitcom character, now that I'm older and fatter and have become a father it's Doug Heffernan, but I'll always have a special place in my heart for Chandler. RIP you were one of the greats...
I always loved Chandler the most. Friends was great, and Matthew Perry was such a fun, relatable guy with great comedic timing. His film Fools Rush In with Salma Hayek is one of my go-to comedies when I'm having a tough time, it never fails to cheer me up. I miss him.
That last sentence was pure perfection.
Could this BE a better tribute?? ❤
Rest in peace legend 😢🕊️
Thank you Matthew for making us laugh for 20 years.
He was really something special.
thank you for this! Friends has been a great influence growing up and me and my old group of friends still re-watch the seasons almost every year.
he passed away on my bithday :(
I know this video is about Perry but reducing Jennifer Anison to being good at being "ditzy" is crazy talk. She turned even non-jokes into funny moments. I think she was as funny as Perry but people overlook her comedic chops.
@ 6:15 It was Matthew's jacket that was covering Janiffer's legs ...those were really bare at @5:08
I haven't watched the show itself, but none of the "funny jokes" compilations on UA-cam managed to get a smile out of me and the laugh track makes it worst. I wonder what makes it funny to other people.
Friends may not be the best show ever made, it might not even be the best sitcom ever made, but boy, did I love Chandler Bing. I was always characterised as a "Chandler" type person and I saw that growing up. My household was Friends obsessed and I grew up watching it all the time and I always gravitated towards Chandler on the show as my favourite character, as well as being someone I highly related to so when I heard of Matthew Perry's passing, I had a very strong reaction to that. Normally, when a celebrity you like passes away, I would be sad for a day or two but you eventually move on from it, its sad that they are not here anymore but I never knew them personally and I was never friends with them... but with Matthew Perry, that didn't pass as easily, someone I had become so connected to growing up. I haven't ever or since felt that connection to another celebrity as much as I did with Matthew Perry and I will always treasure that. Gonna miss you, Friend.
Dang, interesting you made the link to Robin Williams, he's the only other celebrity who left me with lingering blues for a few days, it hadn't even occurred to me how similar the two of them are, and how evidently I must relate to both of them
It’s sad to realise how much I love Matthew Perry after he’s gone
That was a gorgeous tribute, thank you for putting it together.
Really great celebration of what made Chandler great. He really was the most relatable Friend, and along with Phoebe, the funniest.
I always thought it was sad that he never married or had kids. I hear he wanted to but the drugs... The guy had a dark side and I say this out of sympathy not condemnation.
I love Friends and become a character as Chandler
One of the best post-death videos on Mattman I've seen, nicely insightful. Thanks for making it.
This is a really beautiful tribute to Matthew. This seriously got to me. It's also really impressive how you've made an actual good Video Essay! Not a lot of Video Essays like this on UA-cam anymore. Thank you for this!
I honest to god thought this was going to be a video about how fucking unfunny friends is
You gotta understand that in most of the cases you've shown here, the comedic timing was the result of editing, not the actor's performance. Not to say he was a bad actor in any way, just that your examples don't really prove the point.
Yeah exactly my thoughts but watching his interviews showed how good he is with delivery and timing
Someone once told Norm Macdonald that Matthew Perry was a genius and Norm replied "What is he like really good at math??"
This is the best tribute I've watched so far. So lovely. Thank you.
If you liked him in Friends I can’t say enough good about the 1 season NBC show “Go On”. It was brilliant, and let Perry shine in a slightly more mature, but very funny role. Check it out if you can find it. After that, “The Odd Couple” was a terrible show. So sad to see that misstep.
I came into this video thinking about how great Matthew Perry was at his character. Almost at the end and I just remember how great they all were at their characters. What a fun ride.
Rest in peace Mathew Perry, you will always have a place in my heart:)
Fun Fact: Matthew Perry Invented Sarcasm
Im not usually moved or anything when famous people die, but the ending of this video made me cry
Definitely considered a genius. I think he was good at math or something
We are downplaying David. His comedy timing, his body skills... he was crazy good
Nice job guys! I think you really understand why we loved him
When a favoured actor dies, you go 'I kinda liked him. Oh well!' And you get on with your life.
When a comedian passes away, you kinda feel that part of you has died as well.
seeing the thumbnail: omg matthew perry
seeing the title: oh don’t you dare
seeing the upload date: HOW COULD YOU
seeing the creator: ohh *clicks video*
Friends has been my favourite show for many, many years, one I never tire of returning to. It’s like a home, like a group hug, always so warm and fuzzy. I don’t know how I’ll manage to go through it without tears - even this bittersweet video has made me cry. The cast is amazing, they really sell you on the idea that this is the most tightly knit friend group. Chandler has always been my favourite of the bunch, and Perry played the primary role in that. He had an infectious smile that really brightened up his face. I’m very sorry about all his struggles in life, I wish things hadn’t gone this way for him. He seems to have been a lovely person, deserving of so much of the happiness he has brought into my life. May he rest in eternal light.
People seems to forget that Friends ended 20 years ago.
He was pretty tired of being Chandler Bing to everyone even two decades later.
"when i die, i want helping others to be the first thing that is mentioned" - Matthew Perry. Please look into, donate, or just talk about The Matthew Perry foundation.
Its insane to me how similar you sound to "Skill Up" on UA-cam
The timing thing seems to be entirely because a live audience is in the studio
yes the actors have to wait for heavy laughter to calm down but thats not the only reason why he is pausing, in the example you can see how he waited to say the line even after the laugh track was gone
@@morfy2581 right, which is how everyone performs in front of a live audience. It's all contextual, don't get me wrong his timing is better than most of the cast. But all I see is the lowest common denominator type of sarcasm. It feels very Disney Channel, I can find the same type of Talent on Drake and Josh or That's So Raven. He was totally a funny guy but not like an arbiter of a new form Sarcasm.
@@DragonKeeper69 His sarcasm wasnt the best part but the timing and physicallity was where he shined, he had so much energy and emoted in a physically funny form, for me at least.
And no, he is continueing pauses even after the laughter stops. And there are also jokes initialized from silence which he times neatly.
@@morfy2581shone
In comedy, timing is everything. Laugh track or none. Matthew had it to perfection. And I will say the whole cast had👌timing. I am so sad over his passing, still hard to believe but for the people who were his friends......💔😔.
Thanks for this lovely tribute💖.
Beautiful video. RIP Matty❤
I don't buy that marketing, he is sure overrated as being the '' funniest '' . He was as fun as the writers wanted him to be, plus imo his acting was on the same level as the rest of the crew. Sincerely, I think the actor of Ross was the best.
My childhood dog was named Chandler... I'm only slightly ashamed 😂
“Yes absolutely, I look a lot like him”
No one could do sarcastic comedy quite like Matthew 😭
i think we can put perry up with robin williams in terms of how influential hes been on the average persons comedy
You do know that other people wrote the lines for him , and he had direction . imo in the grand scheme of comedy greats he is insignificant, have you even heard of George Carlin , cutting edge standup for fifty years
i will watch videos about friends... but i am never watching friends.
I’m on maybe my 8th run through of the series and in season 2 I had the same thought… Matt Perry will live forever in Friends.
"but kudrow can do anything" THANK YOU SHES SO TALENTED!!!!!!! I think shes gorgeous but it goes to show how conventional pretty privilege overshadows everything
To me she is so funny I sometimes forget I find her attractive
I just wanted to say that i once saw the thumbnail and it looked so good that i watched the WHOLE of friends just to watch this without spoilers :-)
Something about Matthew Perry's passing hit me harder. Part of it is definitely how much we all related to Chandler, and that I grew up with Friends, but honestly anything I watched him in he filled me with warmth. I think a lot of the sadness for me is that we should have seen him more, beyond Friends. He was such a brilliant actor, and not just as a comic. It was always a travesty that Studio 60 got cancelled after one season, and now that's even more so.
Just restarted Friends, I've only been through it once like 5ish years ago, and i think in the first 7-8 episodes I've watched Perry's delivery has cracked me up every time.
I'm not crying, you're crying
yeah comedy is subjective, and friends is a terribly unfunny show
Matthew Perry was legendary. I was never much of a Friends fan, but I kept watching those reruns just for Chandler. The dude's infectiously funny and super expressive. Lively as all get out. Pure talent, pure funny. I loved his portrayal of the villain in Fallout: New Vegas, too. He just sold the role.
I had a History of Rock and Roll professor last semester, when Matthew passed on, and he said that he was a teacher at some school where a lot of actors went when they were younger (don't recall what he said the school was, but I assume it was something about performing arts in general, as the professor was a professional musician and is a conductor) and said that Matthew Perry was always just a funny dude and made everyone around him happy at that school.
You will be missed, Matthew. Thank you for your contributions and for taking the pressure of the world off our shoulders with laughter.
I recognize all the good parts of his humor thanks to you. However I also remember him as the most outwardly misogynistic and homophobic member of Friends.
Both are true.
Funny you say that because for the first and second season it's clear writers didn't know what to do with his character and it was implied that he was gay. He crossdressed as a kid, had his parents divorce ,wasn't his dad gay at some point? That and the fact that he lived with Joey. Just look at his mannerisms, he was acting fruity and zesty a lot.
What a great tribute! I've rewatched the show so many times since I first stumbled across a UA-cam clip almost 10 years ago. Despite the laugh tracks, its comedy and plot seem to stand the test of time for me (minus some of the political incorrectness), and I find something new to appreciate every time I re-watch it.
wow, what an excellent video!! i love that you went into some of the more concrete reasons his comedy worked so well. really illuminating.
Yeah no lmao. It's a shitty show
He is him
Mathew Perry is probably waiting in the afterlife ready to say to his friends “Boy, do they just let anybody come up here, don’t they?”
Thanks so much for the video. Chandler was such a cute friend and Matthew was such a talented actor. RIP.
Chandler will always be my favorite character from Friends
This was beautiful, a great tribute to one of my favorite characters and actors. Thank you!
@6:01 ...this parachute gag was the moment
I could never really get into Friends as a show, but when other people had it on and I happened to be in the room I would laugh now and then... And it was always from his bits.
Wait Matthew Perry died this is my first time hearing about it 😢