TOW Johnny Makes Friends (London)
--> Matthew Perry:
MATTHEW: What're you doing here?
JOHNNY: It's okay, they've let me out the room.
MATTHEW: Well I was, okay, I was promised, it's in my contract I don't
have to speak to you. And did you get the memo about eye contact with
me?
JOHNNY: Sorry.
MATTHEW: Yeah, if I establish eye contact then you're fine.
JOHNNY: That's okay. (Looks at him)
MATTHEW: There you go, see now that's not allowed. But if I (Looks him
in the eye), Hey, man. Now we can talk.
JOHNNY: Okay, 4 seasons, 'bout 100 episodes. In a nutshell, for anyone
who hasn't seen it, what's happened?
MATTHEW: You want me to summits 97 episodes? Well, we drink a lot of
coffee and say funny things to each other. And.. (Matt LeBlanc comes
and gives him a doughnut) Thanks, man! (stuffs it in his mouth) Very
good! (to Matt) Could you bring me about 5 more of these?
MATT: Yeah.
MATTHEW: See, that's funny, now I have my mouth full of food. Could
you cut away for a moment so I can swallow this, then we'll come right
back. So most shows like 'Taxi' and 'Cheers' and all these great shows
were about people who had made their choices in life and were kinda
stuck with them. And the initial idea for 'Friends' was a group of people
who were just about to make those choice and, you know, the kinda transition
into and where that leaves them, so that was the initial idea and we're
hoping to still be doing that in a fun way.
JOHNNY: Okay. Is the end going to be that you all get married, is that
what they've got in store?
MATTHEW: I don't know, we're not quite sure of the end of this episode
we're shooting now. That's how far ahead they look.
JOHNNY: They keep you in the dark?
MATTHEW: Well. they're in the dark, they're only about 3 episodes ahead,
but I'm sure that there's a general arc that they're going for.
JOHNNY: Do you get conspiracy theories within the cast about the men
who are really in control?
MATTHEW: The men who are really in control?
JOHNNY: The men, or the people who are really in control.
MATTHEW: Y'know it's really a sickeningly likeable group. Everybody
really likes each other a lot, so that's not made up. It's kinda gross
but there isn't a jerk in the group and if one comes along we, like,
lock them in a room.
JOHNNY: (laughs)
MATTHEW: He's being nice and in just about 3 seconds he's just gonna
start nailing me.
JOHNNY: I have quite a lot of one liners and things cascading round
my mind all the time and I have real trouble policing and I sort of
sense it in you- lines just going round and dying to come out. How do
you..?(makes a weird face and noise- I can't describe it)
MATTHEW: If you knew what that looked like, you wouldn't do it.
JOHNNY: Okay, I'm taking this on board, all of this.
MATTHEW: Yeah, we'll talk after the show.
JOHNNY: Okay, we'll have, like, a workshop.
MATTHEW: Yeah, but the one liner thing used to give me a lot of trouble
in school. If I thought of something I would say it. A lot of teachers
said to me back then that I'll never amount to anything if I just say
these things that come to mind and if I'm sarcastic, and I'd like to
go up to them now and go, I did alright. But y'know, I don't come up
with all those little Chandler one liners.
JOHNNY: But you are, I gather, the only member of the Friends cast that's
been allowed into the writers sessions.
MATTHEW: I am the only member of the Friends cast that has been into
the writers sessions but I think anybody, if they wanted to, could just
show up. But think the writer's room is just such a fun place to go,
so I asked if I could go in a couple of times, I've been in about 10
times. It's like, a room full of people who are paid to make each other
laugh all day.
JOHNNY: It's like going down to the gym.
MATTHEW: Yes.
JOHNNY: The humor gym.
MATTHEW: It's like the humor gym, yeah, exactly.
JOHNNY: I love what I call your comedy flex
MATTHEW: You can tell when I really love a line.
JOHNNY: Cause you do the flex- here we go.
MATTHEW: Sometimes you can actually see me (swings arms like swinging
a baseball bat).
JOHNNY: When you're on Friends you get that sort of feeling of here
we go, he's put his foot right in it here.
MATTHEW: Yeah, I'm like, say your things but here comes mine. One of
my favorite parts of the show is when Joey says something really stupid
and I just completely nail him. Like when he was trying to figure out
the date that something happened, so he was like, no it was 2 years
ago, no I think it was 3 years ago and then he says, okay when was 1995?
That was his line and I just turn around and say 'You've got to stop
the Q-tip when there's resistance!' That was my favorite line.
JOHNNY: I bet you flexed.
MATTHEW: Oh yeah, that was really like, people see it coming. (Matt
LeBlanc comes and powders Matthew's face). Thanks man, hog more of my
screen time. Did he put black stuff on my head?
JOHNNY: He really has done.
MATTHEW: Is that true? Just let me know when his interview is coming.
Could somebody come and fix me? Important people watch this programme.
JOHNNY: On the show, Chandler's always getting advice from the girls.
In real life, do you?
MATTHEW: Do I get advice from women? I actually get a lot of advice
from those 3 women. It's a very bizarre thing cause what we do, it's
strange and it's great, but what we do, the 6 of us are down on stage
doing the show, talking about life and whatever and then we just go
upstairs, where our dressing rooms are and do a less funny version of
it upstairs. It's the same kind of thing, its just not written so we're
not as funny.
JOHNNY: Cause you're involved, you trust them?
MATTHEW: Yeah, y'know I see them everyday. I've seen them everyday for
four years. And boy I'm tired of them.
JOHNNY: I heard you're a big fan of Barry Mannilow.
MATTHEW: Oh boy.
JOHNNY: Here is a signed album.
MATTHEW: (laughs) Did he actually sign this?
JOHNNY: No, I did.
MATTHEW: Oh you did, great.
JOHNNY: That's a signed album.
MATTHEW: Can you name a song on this album?
JOHNNY: Uh-I Write The Songs?
MATTHEW: Yes.
JOHNNY: Madly?
MATTHEW: Yeah, very good.
JOHNNY: Could This Be The Magic?
MATTHEW: Could It Be Magic, Copacabana.
JOHNNY: Did he write I Write The Songs?
MATTHEW: Y'know I'm embarrassed to say I know that and no, he didn't.
JOHNNY: He didn't did he? That's so ironic.
MATTHEW: It's very strange isn't it?
JOHNNY: You want irony, it's not an Alanis Morissette song.
MATTHEW: That kind of irony, you just have to get up and hug, so let's
do that. (They hug). Thanks, man.
JOHNNY: Matt, Matt, Matt.
MATTHEW: I mean, if that's wrong, I don't wanna be right. Thanks, I'll
go listen to Barry Mannilow.
JOHNNY: Good one, actually. There's a scratch on track three.
MATTHEW: And it's a record.
JOHNNY: That's cause I was dancing and it jolted.
MATTHEW: I understand, thanks. (After Johnny has left, comes back &
throws record back on the couch & leaves it there.)
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