Matthew Perry 'happy and chipper' before death, Friends creators say
Marta Kauffman and David Crane said Perry was in a "really good place" when they spoke to him two weeks before he died.
The actor, who played Chandler Bing on the hit sitcom for the show's 10-season run, died on Saturday in an apparent drowning in his Los Angeles home. He was 54.
Mrs H and I were chatting about this yesterday - why has such an uninteresting story received such prominence? Tragic for those close to him of course, but the numerous headlines hardly reflect its wider significance.
An actor who starred in a US sitcom which finished nearly twenty years ago, and today with two major armed conflicts going on, death and disaster all over the place, the developed world steadily falling apart and we have yet another angle on this chap's demise.
Presumably it tells us something about people who watched the show, thought it was hilarious and now write headlines. It's weird.
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But, but, celebrities are important. How to become famous, and stay famousish, is of great interest to those who wish to become famous. Plus Matthew Perry was in our living rooms on a regular basis.
Un-named people of various colours dying far away not so much.
It's not even as if it's an obvious vaccine death since the guy was a boozer and drugger.
I watched a clip of his "greatest moments". Not even remotely funny. Perhaps the fascination is that deep down we know that some people just get lucky.
DJ - celebrities are certainly important enough to endorse orthodox climate science. As if appearing regularly in our living rooms is how they become important enough to endorse anything. Which is too familiar to be seen as odd even though it is odd.
dearieme - and from the sound of he didn't do too badly to reach 54.
Sam - I agree, I watched a bit of a clip and it seemed too contrived to be funny. Mrs H and I were talking about the luck aspect because luck does seem to be important.
I'm going against the grain here, it seems, but I found the show hilarious and have watched all ten seasons, multiple times. We actually started watching it again on our recent holiday.
I find it difficult to watch anything comedy a second time, as jokes aren't funny twice, but Friends seems to be funny no matter how often I see it.
The show was a ground breaker of its time and even though it finished so long ago, it's been on TV repeats every since, just because of its huge popularity
I'm never arsed about celebrity deaths, but I suppose if you have to report on them, there are bigger non-entities to get rilled up about
As for reporting on this when there's foreign wars and stuff, I suppose the news can do both (Not that I watch it). There's wars all over the world, being fought continuously, but the media decide who we should care about and which wars we should get upset about and it's all a big circus at the end of the day
Anyway...
Bucko - yes it seems to have appealed enormously to some and not at all to others. I imagine the headlines came from people who watched and still remember it.
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