In August 2015, Kudrow performed "Smelly Cat" live with singer Taylor Swift at the Staples Center during the final North American legs of her 1989 World Tour.
(meta data) TITLE: The one where Taylor Swift sings 'Smelly Cat' with 'Friends' alum Lisa Kudrow - Los Angeles Times (meta data) AUTHOR: Yvonne Villarreal (meta data) COPYRIGHT: Copyright (c) 2018 Los Angeles Times 36 captures 29 Aug 2015 - 31 Dec 2019 About this capture COLLECTED BY Collection: Wikipedia Eventstream The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20190524063750/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-taylor-swift-smelly-cat-friends-lisa-kudrow-20150827-story.html Skip to content xml:space="preserve"> Homepage Subscriber Services Local L.A. Now Politics Business Nation Entertainment Opinion Food Sports World Obituaries Real Estate California Living Technology Science Travel Visuals L.A. Times en Español E-Newspaper Design LA Extras Shop About Advertisement Showtracker Television Entertainment # The one where Taylor Swift sings 'Smelly Cat' with 'Friends' alum Lisa Kudrow Taylor Swift, seen here performing during the 1989 World Tour at Staples Center on Aug. 26, 2015, teamed up with "Friends" alum Lisa Kudrow to sing "Smelly Cat." (Christopher Polk / Getty Images for TAS) It was the powerhouse duet that made us feel all the feels. Taylor Swift ended her historic, celebrity-filled run at the Staples Center on Wednesday night with appearances by her bestie, Selena Gomez, and longtime "musical crush" Justin Timberlake. But when coffeehouse pop star Phoebe Buffay (a.k.a. actress Lisa Kudrow) took the stage during the 1989 World Tour to sing "Smelly Cat" alongside Swift, it had us saying: could this BE any more awesome? Really. SIGN UP for the free Great Reads newsletter >> And, sure, we're usually of the mindset that classics shouldn't be tampered with, but this might be the exception. Hearing Kudrow school Swift — both with guitars — on how to sing the iconic earworm from "Friends" might've trumped the over-produced music video Phoebe is strong-armed into making in "The One Where Eddie Moves In" from Season 2. "You'll get it; you'll get there," Kudrow says to Swift, channeling her Phoebe persona. Kudrow was the second "Friends" cast member to appear onstage this week during Swift's set of shows in Los Angeles. Matt "Joey Tribbiani" LeBlanc was on the guest list of her Aug. 22 show — though, he didn't sing. That Swift would team up with Kudrow makes perfect sense. Swift has shown that her love for cats has intersected with TV before — she has two that she's famously named after some of TV's popular heroines, Olivia Benson ("Law & Order: SVU") and Meredith Grey ("Grey's Anatomy"). 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It seems that you're not a celebrity in 2015 if Swift hasn't invited you to come out on stage during her 1989 tour. She's been joined by stars from all areas of showbiz, including Fetty Wap, Julia Roberts, Selena Gomez, Lena Dunham, Jason Derulo, the US Women's Soccer team, Cara Delevingne and Alanis Morissette. The star also broke hearts when she dedicated a song to a four-year-old who died of cancer. The mother was in the audience to hear the moving tribute. Everybody Taylor Swift invited on stage during the 1989 Tour, and what they did However, she sent fans into a state of near apoplexy when, during her fifth show at the Staples Center, she invited Lisa Kudrow on stage with her to sing a rendition of Smelly Cat, the song made famous by Kudrow's character Phoebe Buffay on Friends. Back in Friends' heyday, Phoebe was the one known for playing her signature song with famous guest stars, performing it with both The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde and Chris Isaac when they appeared on the programme. Best country music of 2015 Kudrow isn't the first Friends star to appear on stage with Swift during this tour. On Saturday, Matt Le Blanc also made an appearance along with Chris Rock and Mary J Blige. She also wasn't the only famous face to appear on stage for Swift's final LA show. Swift performed Mirrors with Justin Timberlake and Good For You with her best friend Selena Gomez. 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"Hello!" joked that "hitting the right notes wasn't really a concern [for the actresses] if they wanted the performance to reflect Lisa's character's dubious musical talents", while Inquisitr's Asher Bayot reviewed the duet as awkward. The performance remained Kudrow's only documented post-"Friends" "Smelly Cat" performance for several years. 
 In 2014, singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat sang an a capella version of "Smelly Cat" live at a Central Perk-themed pop-up café in Manhattan, New York, which had been launched to commemorate the show's 20th anniversary. Caillat's unscheduled performanced surprised many fans in attendance, who she encouraged to sing along. Despite praising Caillat's rendition as "awesome" for "fulfill[ing] every "Friends" fanatic's fantasy", "Bustle"'s Aly Semigran criticized her for performing only half of the song. However, she believes her rendition should lead to a Phoebe tribute album, on which she should reprise "Smelly Cat". At the same pop-up, actor James Michael Tyler, who portrayed Central Perk barista Gunther, performed the first verse of the song with band The Rembrandts, who originally recorded "I'll Be There for You". Brent Furdyk of "Entertainment Tonight Canada" described the Tyler-Rembrandts rendition as "Jim Morrison-esque". A box of "Smelly Cat" kitty litter from the episode "The One with Phoebe's Ex-Partner" was displayed as part of the pop-up's exhibit.