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• Friends always seemed like a show that valued the performances more than other sitcoms, at least by the standards of the nineties.

  Also, the drama following the characters on a story over the years made us feel closer to the actors. We wanted those characters to succeed, so we feel closer to the actors.

  It’s not surprise then that the Seinfeld actors had a rougher time. We watched that show hoping they’d fail, because those characters were awful people.

  Comment by Dan Abrams — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 12:35pm PST  Reply to this post

• I always thought David Schwimmer was underrated as a comedic actor. His character of Ross started out annoying so he was saddled with that adjective too, but his comic timing was always stellar, I thought. He’s a talented guy and deserves the continued success. Good for him.

  Comment by Nicole — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 12:46pm PST  Reply to this post

• RESPECT must be earned.

  Could the reason these Actors have all been so successful be that perhaps, in addition to knowing their own WORTH, each and every regular cast member of “Friends” also KNEW the value and the importance of unity, solidarity?

  By acting as a solid and committed unit, ‘all for one and one for all’, these Actors also earned RESPECT from their employers, IMHO. Weren’t these Actors also the first cast to ever negotiate and achieve a million dollar$, each, per TV episode?

  Comment by Renee Aubry — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 1:00pm PST  Reply to this post

• ****It’s not surprise then that the Seinfeld actors had a rougher time. We watched that show hoping they’d fail, because those characters were awful people.***

  Yeah, and that’s why in the finale they all ended up in jail.

  I used to watch Seinfeld all the time and loved it. Not so much, in reruns. They started to annoy me. Big time.

  Friends holds up way better.

  Comment by meThinks — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 1:13pm PST  Reply to this post

• I always thought that “Ross” should have had his own show rather than Joey. Ross, like Frasier, wasn’t wacky but could have surrounded himself with wacky characters. According to IMDB, Matt LeBlanc hasn’t worked since “Joey”.

  Comment by JD — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 1:33pm PST  Reply to this post

• Check him out in Duane Hopwood. I think it’s his best work, and the fact that the distributors and producers botched the release so badly, after it was well received at Sundance in 2005, not even opening the film in N.Y. and L.A., deprived both him and the film of the attention it deserved. I covered Roger Ebert’s Film Festival in 2006 and he said “if this film had been given a competent release, David Schwimmer would have been recognized for giving an Academy Award level performance.” He was right.

  Comment by David Poland — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 2:05pm PST  Reply to this post

• He played a great dick in Band of Bros.

  Comment by Realworldperson — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 2:34pm PST  Reply to this post

• Schwimmer has been behind the camera a lot – he directed the studio segments of Little Britain USA, for example.

  Comment by Name — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 3:38pm PST  Reply to this post

• Huh? Schwimmer can get arrested? Please, James Van Der Beek and Luke Perry can still get work on the “indie circuit.” Good for Schwimms for branching out into directing, but if his career was really going so great right now, why would he be signing with 360? Did you just cut and paste Gersh’s press release?

  Comment by Dave Begelman — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 4:48pm PST  Reply to this post

• Do we expect a friends reuinion movie similar to sex and the city?

  Comment by jeff — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 4:48pm PST  Reply to this post

• If it wasn’t for Jennifer Aniston whoring herself to the press 24/7, she and the rest of the annoying Friends would disappear down the toilet where they belong. None of them can act and none of them even look good anymore. Not that Schwimmer ever looked good. He always looked like the foreskin tossed on the floor after a circumcision. The only one with talent on that over-rated over-hyped show was Lisa Kudrow and even she gets on my last nerve nowadays. No idea why anyone would want to rep Schwimmer. Do they honestly think they’re going to make much money off him if all he’s doing is bad indies?

  Comment by Dorothy Palmer — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 7:03pm PST  Reply to this post

• They are all making lots of money from Friends royalities. They use that money to invest in their film projects. Which is why most of the Friends actors are working. Jerry Seinfeld was the only one to get rich of his tv series.

  Comment by lac — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 10:49pm PST  Reply to this post

• David Schwimmer has done so well? Well, he’s been busy, making and directing some little-noticed films. Did a voice in Madagascar. But we’re not exactly talking James Garner here.

  Comment by Bill — Wednesday July 1, 2009 @ 11:49pm PST  Reply to this post

• I can’t remember anything Schwimmer has done besides Friends as far as them doing well – only Aniston and Perry have really had any success.

  Matt LeBlanc- Joey canceled quicker than you can say “How You doing?”
  Courtney Cox-Dirt, forgettable
  Lisa Kudrow – Did an HBO series that was so forgettable I dont even remember the name of it.
  David Schwimmer- Somebody help me out.

  As far as Seinfeld vs. Friends – PUHLEEEEASSSE, Seinfeld all the way. Friends was nothing special, just Schwimmer doing his 7th grade act every week wondering if Rachel liked him.

  TV Guide made the show by giving the morons covers every week as if the show was the best show in history. Hardly.

  Comment by Leon — Thursday July 2, 2009 @ 10:45am PST  Reply to this post