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[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago (2 children)

He had some pretty progressive views on treating addiction based on his own experience with it. Also he was my favorite on the show even though the show is undeniably problematic in many ways, it still brought me comfort to come home and watch it after facing bigotry back in high school, kind of an escapism into a reality where I could be an adult with friends.

All in all I am mildly shocked and bummed, but it's hard to merit much dismay about the death of a wealthy actor when I'm already much more concerned about oppressed Palestinians.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Friends was problematic and overrated but damn if I didn't enjoy it for what it was, that being fun slop to watch while I'm winding down with friends and family.

So this and David Schwimmer outing himself as an unapologetic Zionist in the same week (not that it was too surprising) does feel like a kick to the gut.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

God fucking damnit

I never watched Friends and I only knew Schwimmer from Band of Brothers. His acting in that show was amazing and this is disappointing news.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I couldn't take Schwimmer seriously in BoB which I watched well after Friends michael-laugh

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

He played the perfect little "talks a lot of shit but can't back it up" petty asshole role.

When you learn he's a coward and then he takes his petty frustrations out on Winters and the NCOs and then the higher officers force him out and Winters gets to lead the company after the next in line officer dies on D day. It's so satisfying.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

Yeah the fact it happened now is such a whiplash. Like I feel bad for his family and friends, but it comes after feeling that way for a far less powerful people the past month.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (1 children)

trump-who-must-go I'm just now hearing this for the first time...

this is the guy who did the gunboat diplomacy, right?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (3 children)

That's young to go.

Shit comes in 3s. Come on die-motherfucker it's your turn bastard.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago

Get in the tub, Henry.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Matt LeBlanc and then Matthew Broderick.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Yeah I always figured Joey would die first because he didn't know you're supposed to chew an apple or something.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Basically my Mom's age. Kissinger did take fall a few days ago tho

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

Dude fucked his body up pretty good when Friends was at its peak. In addition to being unfunny sitcom slop for anti-cracker-aktion, watching him and Courtney Cox being the TV poster couple for the horrible effects of unchecked Hollywood excess was unsettling.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Perry, the son of actor John Bennett Perry and Suzanne Marie Langford, onetime press secretary of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was born in 1969 and grew up between Montreal and Los Angeles after his parents separated when Perry was 1.

fidel-cool fidel-balling

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

"If I know my pal ~~Benny~~ Matty he's swinging with the big cat upstairs as we speak, or chasing some angel broad with cans as big as her halo!"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Oh wait this isn't c/fakenews. RIP

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

He was murdered

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

Damn. He was the best part of friends and killed it as Benny. RIP.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)

whenever reflecting on a different dead actor (for example River Phoenix or Chris Farley), Matthew Perry would say (in his memoirs released in 2022) it wasn't fair/right that they were dead and Keanu Reeves was still alive.

i know it's a reddit-logo thing to worship keanu, but by many accounts he seems to be a fairly shy, decent guy who has experienced pretty severe personal tragedies (stillborn child, wife died in car accident, sister with leukemia) and comes across as someone grounded and relatable.

i haven't found perry amusing for about 20 years and despite being the star of [White] FRIENDS, he completely shit the bed at doing anything else, probably because his one-note bitter-sarcastic "acting" range didn't translate to anything after his little star vehicle ran itself into the ground.... meanwhile everyone else in that cast went on to do some critically acclaimed work. my personal favorite moves of former friends main cast:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

His knocks it out of the park as the voice of 'Benny' in Fallout New Vegas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

why does benny from fnv have beef with reddit man.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Episodes was great

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I thought this was a c/fakenews post from regularassbitch or GayTuckerCarlson

talk about a reversal trans-uno

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I made up a tasteless joke.

CW: (1) death (2) animals as food

Boiling lobster cosplay is highly dangerous. But Mathew Perry is dead. Friends should have let their friend know.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tbh when I heard this, I almost spread a rumor in my circle that Matt berry from what we do in the shadows died

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

DAMN THESE ELECTRIC SEX PANTS

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

FATHERRRRRRR!!!!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

rest in piss

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

this summer i got drunk and fell asleep in a hot tub. glad i didn’t drown! (my back was covered in cup-like marks from the air jets though. almost as bad)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

anyone got a link to the audiobook of him reading his own memoir?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Don't think the admins would appreciate me dropping a direct link, but you can hit me up on Matrix (click my profile and then "Send Secure Message"). I've got it as a chaptered M4B file which should play nicely with the audiobook player of your choosing (I'm partial to the FOSS Android app Voice)

(also if this is also frowned upon sorry admins/mods, please remove my comment)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

afaik admins are pro piracy but i'll see if i can ifgure out matrix

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

They're pro-piracy for sure, but I think the reason we don't have a piracy comm is to avoid unnecessary heat--it's just not worth it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Benny : From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18-carat run of bad luck.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

To my very limited knowledge, I don't think he did or said anything too bad. And apparently he beat up a young Justin Trudeau in like elementary school.

So I am withholding my "Another Krakkker Down" and putting out a tentative "RIP".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Israeli poison gas claims another Friends star