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Lisa Kudrow’s Cable Comeback

Arts, Culture & Media

Fans long confused actor Lisa Kudrow with her Friends character, Phoebe. With The Comeback, she’s finally getting the credit she deserves.

Lisa Kudrow’s Greatest Failures

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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

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Floor Plans for Your Favorite Sitcom Homes

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Can a Room Be Funny? Sitcom Set Designers Think So

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Lisa Kudrow: Actress and Biology Major

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Lisa Kudrow didn’t start out wanting to be an actor: she studied sociobiology in college and wanted to become a researcher.

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Five Years After Phoebe

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Lisa Kudrow didn’t start out wanting to be an actor: she studied sociobiology in college and wanted to become a researcher. Plans changed, and she spent ten years playing flighty Phoebe on “Friends.” Over the years she became more like her character: “I lost a lot of vocabulary.”

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What can the employed do for their unemployed friends?

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What can we do to help our unemployed friends? Our guests share advice and information for those who want to help, but are afraid of sounding condescending.

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David Schwimmer

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Actor-director David Schwimmer speaks with Faith Salie about his new film “Run Fatboy Run.”

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David Schwimmer

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Actor-director David Schwimmer speaks with Faith Salie about his new film “Run Fatboy Run.”

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