Lisa Kudrow Says She Is Finally Watching ‘Friends’

More than 20 years after Friends finished airing Lisa Kudrow is finally watching the pivotal show. The actress, who played Phoebe, admitted to Jimmy Kimmel that she has been making her way through all 10 seasons each night after her husband goes to bed.

“I’m watching it now,” she told Kimmel during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “I’m on Season 8 or 9. When did Rachel give birth? I don’t know. I wait until my husband goes to sleep because I’m too embarrassed.”

“What’s embarrassing?” Kimmel asked. “That I’m watching myself on TV every night!” Kudrow responded.

She added, “I’m not watching it for myself. I just like a sitcom before going to bed and I ran out.”

Kimmel asked if it feels like she’s watching somebody else. “It does now,” Kudrow acknowledged. “And everyone’s hilarious and I’m laughing out loud.”

The actress added that she hadn’t previously seen “most” of the episodes and doesn’t actually remember a lot of them. Some have really made an impact, though.

“It was last night or the night before where Alec Baldwin was in the episode and I remember Alec Baldwin was there. I didn’t remember what we were doing,” she said. “But we’re at the Gellers’ anniversary party and Joey and Phoebe are talking and Joey says, ‘This is the worst party. It took forever to get to the buffet line. I get up there and I slipped on a giant booger.’ And Phoebe had thrown an oyster on the floor. Just the thought that Joey thought a giant oyster was a booger that came out of someone’s nose. I started crying I was laughing so hard. Tears! Then I had to text Matt [LeBlanc].”

Kudrow also discussed the new season of her show The Comeback, which shoots on the stage soundstage as Friends. “That was really strange and kind of emotional,” she said. “That’s where we ended that.”

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The third and final season of The Comeback premieres on March 22 on HBO. Kudrow created the series with Michael Patrick King after Friends ended in 2004. The first season debuted in 2005, but the second didn’t arrive until 2014.

“We need to say ‘third and final,’” Kudrow recently told the Hollywood Reporter. “I don’t know if I’ll want to do it again in 10 years, so let’s be done, that way no one is asking what’s next or whether we will even want to do more. The most respectful thing we can do for the audience and for the character is make it a three-part story. It’s a trilogy, and this is the end.”