{"id":207962,"date":"2026-03-17T07:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/207962\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:11:19","slug":"lisa-kudrow-on-playing-the-comebacks-val-longer-than-playing-phoebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/207962\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Kudrow On Playing &#8216;The Comeback&#8217;s Val Longer Than Playing Phoebe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lisa-kudrow\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lisa-kudrow\" data-tag=\"lisa-kudrow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Kudrow<\/a> makes one last comeback as Valerie Cherish, she\u2019s reflecting on her <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a> show\u2019s two-decade journey to Season 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile stopping by the Deadline Studio at SXSW with the cast and co-creator of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-comeback\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-comeback\" data-tag=\"the-comeback\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Comeback<\/a>, the Emmy winner acknowledged that she\u2019s technically played the mockumentary reality show\u2019s fictional TV icon for a longer span of time than she played Phoebe Buffay on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/friends\/\" id=\"auto-tag_friends\" data-tag=\"friends\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friends<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cYes, I have played Valerie longer than I\u2019ve played Phoebe,\u201d said Kudrow. \u201cBut Valerie\u2019s always there, she\u2019s very right there, close by. She\u2019s the one doing commentary throughout my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter developing the character of Valerie Cherish at LA\u2019s Groundlings, Kudrow co-created The Comeback with Michael Patrick King in 2005, playing the actress as she lets reality show cameras follow her around while attempts to revive her career on a new sitcom, Room and Bored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith Val\u2019s career launching from her \u201990s sitcom I\u2019m It, the character mirrors Kudrow\u2019s own history on one of the most successful sitcoms of all time, starring on Friends from 1994 to 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Comeback returned for a long overdue second season in 2014. Season 3 premieres Sunday at 10:30pm ET on HBO, also available to stream on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo-max\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo-max\" data-tag=\"hbo-max\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO Max<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the third and final season, Valerie accepts the lead role on a new sitcom, How\u2019s That?, which is written by an AI program. As reality show cameras follow her around once again for this latest phase of her career, the actress and producer has to navigate the many cultural landmines of Hollywood in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline Studio at SXSW presented by Redbreast Irish Whiskey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Lisa Kudrow makes one last comeback as Valerie Cherish, she\u2019s reflecting on her HBO show\u2019s two-decade journey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,36210,40092,62455,81598,81599],"class_list":["post-207962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-friends","tag-hbo","tag-hbo-max","tag-lisa-kudrow","tag-the-comeback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}