{"id":1906837,"date":"2026-04-28T10:09:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1906837"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:09:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:09:45","slug":"friends-star-lisa-kudrow-says-the-shows-writers-would-be-up-late-discussing-their-sexual-fantasies-about-jennifer-aniston-and-courteney-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1906837","title":{"rendered":"Friends Star Lisa Kudrow Says the Show’s Writers ‘Would Be Up Late Discussing Their Sexual Fantasies’ About Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lisa Kudrow has talked about \u201cmean stuff going on behind the scenes\u201d inside the Friends<\/a> writers\u2019 room \u2014 22 years after the show ended.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The sitcom, which at its height was one of the most popular TV shows in the world, starred Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay alongside Jennifer Aniston as Rachel and Courteney Cox as Monica \u2014 the three women who formed one half of the Friends group that also included Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani, Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, and David Schwimmer as Ross Geller.<\/p>\n

Now, Kudrow, 62, spoke to The Times<\/a> about the Friends writers\u2019 room, which was on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California, saying: \u201cthere was definitely mean stuff going on behind the scenes.\u201d According to Kudrow, the writers\u2019 room contained 12-15 mostly male staff, and, she alleged, they could be mean to the actors.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, and Lisa Kudrow on January 9, 1995 in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Ron Davis\/Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\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 f***ing read? She\u2019s not even trying. She f***ed up my line,\u2019 Kudrow said. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we know that back in the room the guys would be up late discussing their sexual fantasies about Jennifer and Courteney. It was intense.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, it could be brutal, but these guys \u2014 and it was mostly men in there \u2014 were sitting up until 3am 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\u201d Kudrow continued.<\/p>\n

As The Times mentions, Friends writers\u2019 assistant Amaani Lyle brought a sexual harassment court case in 2004. Lyle alleged the show’s male writers discussed graphically how they would like to have sex with Aniston and Cox. “I would have to listen to comments about the sexual conduct many of the writers would like to do with Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston,” Lyle alleged at the time. Lyle\u2019s lawsuit failed in what became known throughout Hollywood as \u201cthe Friends case,\u201d because it was used as precedent that free speech in creative environments is protected.<\/p>\n

Kudrow is currently promoting the return of her HBO Max sitcom The Comeback, which is inspired by the experience of being inside writers\u2019 rooms. As for Friends itself, the cast still make $20 million a year each from repeat fees, according to The Times. But there will never be a Friends reboot, a remake, or even a sequel<\/a> \u2014 according to Jennifer Aniston.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Ron Davis\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n

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Lisa Kudrow has talked about \u201cmean stuff going on behind the scenes\u201d inside the Friends<\/a> writers\u2019 room \u2014 22 years after the show ended.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The sitcom, which at its height was one of the most popular TV shows in the world, starred Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay alongside Jennifer Aniston as Rachel and Courteney Cox as Monica \u2014 the three women who formed one half of the Friends group that also included Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani, Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, and David Schwimmer as Ross Geller.<\/p>\n

Now, Kudrow, 62, spoke to The Times<\/a> about the Friends writers\u2019 room, which was on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California, saying: \u201cthere was definitely mean stuff going on behind the scenes.\u201d According to Kudrow, the writers\u2019 room contained 12-15 mostly male staff, and, she alleged, they could be mean to the actors.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, and Lisa Kudrow on January 9, 1995 in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Ron Davis\/Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\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 f***ing read? She\u2019s not even trying. She f***ed up my line,\u2019 Kudrow said. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we know that back in the room the guys would be up late discussing their sexual fantasies about Jennifer and Courteney. It was intense.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, it could be brutal, but these guys \u2014 and it was mostly men in there \u2014 were sitting up until 3am 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\u201d Kudrow continued.<\/p>\n

As The Times mentions, Friends writers\u2019 assistant Amaani Lyle brought a sexual harassment court case in 2004. Lyle alleged the show’s male writers discussed graphically how they would like to have sex with Aniston and Cox. “I would have to listen to comments about the sexual conduct many of the writers would like to do with Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston,” Lyle alleged at the time. Lyle\u2019s lawsuit failed in what became known throughout Hollywood as \u201cthe Friends case,\u201d because it was used as precedent that free speech in creative environments is protected.<\/p>\n

Kudrow is currently promoting the return of her HBO Max sitcom The Comeback, which is inspired by the experience of being inside writers\u2019 rooms. As for Friends itself, the cast still make $20 million a year each from repeat fees, according to The Times. But there will never be a Friends reboot, a remake, or even a sequel<\/a> \u2014 according to Jennifer Aniston.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Ron Davis\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lisa Kudrow has talked about \u201cmean stuff going on behind the scenes\u201d inside the Friends writers\u2019 room \u2014 22 years after the show ended. The sitcom, which at its height was one of the most popular TV shows in the world, starred Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay alongside Jennifer Aniston as Rachel and Courteney Cox […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,243],"class_list":["post-1906837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-ign-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1906837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1906837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1906837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1906837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}