{"id":554652,"date":"2026-04-28T07:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554652\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:31:08","slug":"lisa-kudrow-says-the-friends-writers-fantasized-about-her-co-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554652\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Kudrow Says the ‘Friends’ Writers Fantasized About Her Co-Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLisa Kudrow<\/a> recently told The Times of London<\/a> that she had to endure some \u201cmean stuff\u201d from the writing staff of \u201cFriends<\/a>,\u201d who were \u201cmostly men,\u201d during her 10-season run on the NBC sitcom. Kudrow, who starred as the free-spirited Phoebe Buffay, said the writers reprimanded the cast for forgetting lines and spent their off-hours fantasizing about her female co-stars.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere was definitely mean stuff going on behind the scenes,\u201d Kudrow said. \u201cDon\u2019t forget we were recording in front of a live audience of 400, and if you messed up one of these writers\u2019 lines or it didn\u2019t get the perfect response they could be like, \u2018Can\u2019t the bitch fucking read? She\u2019s not even trying. She fucked up my line.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added that, in the writers\u2019 room, \u201cthe guys would be up late discussing their sexual fantasies about Jennifer [Aniston] and Courteney [Cox]. It was intense.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKudrow described the writers\u2019 treatment of the cast as \u201cbrutal,\u201d but she said she didn\u2019t pay them much mind since most of their illicit behavior happened behind closed doors.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOh, it could be brutal, but these guys \u2014 and it was mostly men in there \u2014 were sitting up until 3 a.m. trying to write the show so my attitude was, \u2018Say what you like about me behind my back because then it doesn\u2019t matter,\u2019\u200a\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe behavior of the \u201cFriends\u201d writing team was famously exposed by Amaani Lyle back in the early 2000s. Lyle, who worked on the show in 1999 on Season 6, brought a lawsuit against Warner Bros. Television for the writers\u2019 room conduct. In the suit, she claimed that the \u201cFriends\u201d scribes frequently made sexual and racist remarks, and as the writers\u2019 assistant, she was forced to take notes on everything that was said in the room. The case eventually made it to the Supreme Court, which ruled against Lyle after deciding the coarse demeanor was a necessary part of the work environment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa Kudrow recently told The Times of London that she had to endure some \u201cmean stuff\u201d from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,5934,120004,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-554652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-friends","11":"tag-lisa-kudrow","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}