SITCOM SPECIAL
Lisa Kudrow interview: on her new comedy Space Force and what Phoebe Buffay would be doing in lockdown
The Friends star explains why the sitcom still hasn't been topped — and how it would be different if it was made today. By Jonathan Dean
AMY DICKERSON
Jonathan Dean
Sunday May 17 2020, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
There were 236 episodes of Friends, and Lisa Kudrow was in them all. She played Phoebe Buffay, of course, who was eccentric, streetwise and wrote the song Smelly Cat. The actress has also been in cult films and smart television — Phoebe was just one blossom on a career of many branches — but you don't take part in Friends and expect to be remembered for something else. The sitcom finished 16 years ago, but was still the most-streamed show in the UK last year. So, as she pops up on Zoom from her lockdown in the desert outside Los Angeles, I obviously think of Friends and, less obviously, whether she regrets being part of it.
"Oh God, no!" she says shocked, with