Matt LeBlanc
Matt LeBlanc
Matthew Steven "Matt" LeBlanc is an American actor, comedian, television host, and producer, best known for his role as the dim-witted womanizing actor Joey Tribbiani on the popular NBC sitcom Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004. LeBlanc also stars as a fictional version of himself in Episodes. He won a Golden Globe award for his work on Episodes, and was nominated for an Emmy three times for his work on Friends and four times for Episodes. Since 2016 LeBlanc...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth25 July 1967
CityNewton, MA
CountryUnited States of America
We've talked about it within the team and we've dubbed it the 'Reverse the Record' season.
We just want to come back from an 0-10 season and we've been working on that in the off-season,
Every sport in this school is down. Kids don't want to get off their butts and go do something. Kids are getting lazy and you can't afford that in a small school.
You know, I think British comedy is very smart comedy. You don't get too much dumb comedy over here. Or at least I haven't seen it. If I'm wrong about that, I apologize to all the dumb comedy makers over here.
'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.
You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.
People will speak slowly to me sometimes. And they always ask me if I'm all right, because I'm much more low-key and reserved than my character in 'Friends'.
I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.
Still, on 'Friends', we had some guest-stars who were less than spectacular, not the stunt-casting, but just regular guest-stars, and they weren't particularly great actors, but the material was so good that they scored. It's the writing.
It's like you're caught naked hanging from a tree branch with the wind blowing.
It seems like there's more, but Friends was always a high- pressure environment because it was successful from day one. So I'm kind of used to it.
The more kids we have, the harder we work, the better it's going to be.
I'm not looking forward to the end because it is going to be really sad. These are people I've evolved with and whom I've really learned from.
A true gentleman doesn’t prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn’t have any preferences whatsoever.