Conan O’Brien Shares The 1 Factor That Made Him ‘Jealous’ Of Matthew Perry – The Boston Courier

Conan O’Brien nonetheless remembers how “jealous” he was of late “Friends” star Matthew Perry.

The comic admitted as a lot on Monday’s episode of the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast and reminded visitor Lisa Kudrow — who landed her half on “Friends” shortly after breaking apart with O’Brien — that she couldn’t cease speaking about her co-star.

“You started doing that show, and you called me up … and you were raving about Matthew, and you were saying, ‘He’s so funny,’ and there was part of me that was jealous,” O’Brien mentioned. “I was [like], ‘OK, I make you laugh pretty hard.’”

“And you were like, ‘No, you don’t understand — this guy’s really [funny],’” he continued.

O’Brien and Kudrow began relationship in 1988, when each have been comparatively unknown Hollywood skills. The couple finally broke up one 12 months earlier than “Friends” premiered in 1994, and regardless of his preliminary response, O’Brien needed to agree with Kudrow’s evaluation of Perry, who performed the sarcastic Chandler Bing.

“I was watching him and going, ‘Yep,’” O’Brien mentioned.

Kudrow, who performed lovable ditz Phoebe Buffay on the present, assuaged her ex-boyfriend by calling O’Brien “one of the funniest people I know.”

“That’s just a fact,” she mentioned. “But [Perry] was such a huge [star].”

Perry was discovered useless in October final 12 months at 54 years outdated in what regarded like an unintentional drowning. An post-mortem launched in December discovered Perry had excessive ranges of ketamine in his system on the time; the report listed the drug’s acute results as his major explanation for loss of life.

On O’Brien’s podcast, Kudrow shared that she began binge-watching “Friends” after Perry’s loss of life.

“Well, I used to not be able to watch it at all … after Matthew died, I could start watching the show again because it wasn’t about me. It had to do with him,” she mentioned, including, “I have spent, at times since he died, all day long watching the show.”