A former 'Friends' writer says that the show's stars would purposely 'tank' lines they didn't care for: 'Dozens of good jokes would get thrown out.'
would "deliberately tank" jokes they didn't like, forcing the writers to come up with multiple alternate versions., and while she was nervous to join the writing staff so late in the series' run, she knew she couldn't turn down the opportunity to be a part of one of the biggest shows in Hollywood.
She continues: "They all knew how to get a laugh, but if they didn't like a joke, they seemed to deliberately tank it, knowing we'd rewrite it. Dozens of good jokes would get thrown out just because one of them had mumbled the line through a mouthful of bacon." Scripts were rewritten after the table reads, according to Lin, and things would only get worse during the run-throughs on set.
"Everyone would sit around Monica and Chandler's apartment and discuss the script," Lin writes. "This was the actors' first opportunity to voice their opinions, which they did vociferously. They rarely had anything positive to say, and when they brought up problems, they didn't suggest feasible solutions. Seeing themselves as guardians of their characters, they often argued that they would never do or say such-and-such.
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