Lisa Kudrow‘s breakout role in “Friends” is still bringing in the big bucks over 30 years after it first aired in 1994.

During a recent interview with The Times in London, the 62-year-old revealed she and the rest of the cast of “Friends” continue to earn $20 million a year in residuals from the show.

“Because Phoebe Buffay was so great?” Kudrow jokingly guessed as to why the dollar amount is so high, referencing her character from the show.

“Friends” first premiered in September 1994, and was an immediate breakout hit, and reportedly was ringing in 25 million viewers each week.

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Despite its popularity, Kudrow shared she had never actually watched the show, telling the outlet she wanted to watch it after her former co-star, Matthew Perry, died in October 2023.

“Before, I only saw what I did wrong or could have done better,” she explained. “But for the first time I truly appreciated just how great it was. I felt I did OK, but Jennifer and Courteney? Amazing. David and Matt? They had me laughing so hard. And then Matthew — he was just beyond us all.”

Kudrow previously spoke to The Hollywood Reporter in June 2024 about what it’s like for her to watch Perry on screen as Chandler Bing.

She explained that watching him is a way of “just celebrating how hilarious he was,” adding that he was “uniquely hilarious” and that “that is what I want to remember [about him].”

“You’re just laughing all day long, basically, in between the scenes, because these are funny people,” Kudrow said. “And especially someone like Matthew, whose goal was: How many laughs can I get in real life every day? So we were always laughing so hard, tears were flying out of our faces.”

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When speaking with The Times, Kudrow spoke about the idea that the show maybe “captured a kind of innocence” that existed in the past that “a younger generation has never got to experience” without social media, smartphones or laptops.

Despite this, Kudrow assures fans things were not as innocent behind the scenes as they may have appeared to be.

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“Don’t forget we were recording in front of a live audience of 400, and if you messed up one of these writers’ lines or it didn’t get the perfect response they could be like, ‘Can’t the b—- f—ing read? She’s not even trying. She f—ed up my line,’” she said. “And we know that back in the room the guys would be up late discussing their sexual fantasies about Jennifer and Courteney. It was intense.”

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“Friends” ran on NBC for 10 seasons over 10 years, with the final episode airing in May 2004 and reportedly garnering over 52 million views.

In the men’s category, Jonathan Isherwood won with a time of 1:24:35, while Ajay Yadav stood second and Siddharth Solanki stood third. Based on the theme of The City Runs After Dark, thousands of runners participated in this mega event and ran in the darkness of the night amidst lights, music and excitement.

The event had three categories of half marathon (21.1 km), 10.5 km and 5 km. Participants of every age group participated enthusiastically in this race which started at 7 pm.

Rohit came first in 5 km class
In the men’s 5 km race, Rohit Singh Chauhan won with a timing of 19:06 minutes, while Ravi Singh and Vimal Maurya finished second and third respectively. In the women’s category, Radha Kishori secured the first position with a timing of 23:15. Tanveer Kaur Dhillon stood second and Elena Savelyeva stood third.

Chandni number one in 10.5 km
Tough competition was also seen in the 10.5 km race. In the women’s category, Chandni secured first place with a time of 45:58. Jayanti Thapliyal stood second and Katie Roos stood third. In the men’s category, Ayush Sharma won with a timing of 40:43, while Rakesh Kumar Saran stood second and Ankit Tyagi stood third.

the atmosphere felt like a celebration
DJ music, lights and cheer zone at the venue made the atmosphere festive, which doubled the enthusiasm of the runners. This event emerged as a symbol of the growing fitness craze in the capital and gave the message that now Delhi is ready to run not only during the day but also at night.

Hemlata told that younger son Trishant was born 10 years after the birth of eldest daughter Siya. After a lot of prayers, Trishant was able to get Marina’s lap. Recently he was admitted to Mount Carmel School Prep. His primary education had just started.

Recently he was admitted to Mount Carmel School Prep. His primary education had just begun. Trishan, the youngest of the house, remained close to his mother’s chest even in the last moments of her death. Marina’s mother Madhur was buried a little away from her nephew and daughter in the cemetery. Husband Pradeep’s eyes looked away from the people, as if there was a regret, the pain of not being able to save his loved ones in the end.

Pradeep had lost his mother-like mother-in-law, his wife and his four-year-old son. On the other hand, Julius lost his wife, his daughter and his beloved grandson. In this accident, two fathers and two husbands lost everything which they cannot get back now. Earlier, when three funeral processions of the same family came together, the people of Delhi’s Khazan colony were shocked.

Why doesn’t AI, which hears everything, listen to screams?
This phone listens to everything, then shows us the pictures related to it. We don’t want to see those pictures. Now I feel scared whenever I open the phone. There is AI in the phone but what kind of system is this, which listens to everything but why does it become deaf when any problem arises? Then why doesn’t it issue a warning and inform those responsible that someone is trapped, someone’s life is in danger. My family kept waiting for help. People on the cruise were fighting to save themselves. These were the words of Hemlata, hearing which the women present there burst into tears.

Untrained cruise team became the cause of deaths
The carelessness of the cruise team ruined our happy family. My father-in-law is an eyewitness to this. Hemlata told that life jacket should have been given as soon as she boarded the cruise but no one took care of safety. Had the team been trained, all three members of the family would have been safe today.

Hemlata told that when the boat started filling with water, my father-in-law himself tore the packet, took out the life jacket and started distributing it among the people present there. People were wearing jackets by themselves. After the boat sank, many people of the cruise team ran away to save their lives, but the passengers remained stuck there. Somehow people nearby started pulling the drowning people by throwing ropes. My father-in-law was also involved in that. Otherwise, today she would have lost her father-in-law and brother-in-law along with her mother-in-law.

According to family members, the jackets were not enough. In the end there was only one jacket left and two lives were in front, a mother and her four year old son. Then Julius gave the jacket to daughter Marina. Pradeep put both the legs of his son Trishan in Marina’s jacket and Marina hugged her son and tied the belt on top. Maybe thinking that my child would be saved and not me, but the waves were merciless and fate was even more so. Along with both of them, Marina’s mother Madhur Masih stopped breathing in the same water. The local villagers showed courage and threw ropes and saved the lives of many people. Julius, Pradeep and 14-year-old daughter Siya were evacuated safely. Kuldeep told that there was already a yellow weather alert but the tourists were not informed about it. If people had been told about the danger, no one would have boarded that boat.

Save…our boat is sinking
The calm waves of Bargi Dam in Madhya Pradesh were suddenly filled with screams and sobs on Thursday evening. The journey that started with laughter, celebration and memories, within a few moments turned into a tragic accident that broke an entire family of Delhi forever. Marina’s brother Kuldeep told that the family members were on the upper deck of the cruise when the weather turned bad. My sister Marina was on the video call with us. She was showing us the view and the water.

Suddenly the situation changed. She started crying in fear and saying, save me… save me… and then the phone got disconnected. My brother-in-law, Pradeep Theda, knows how to swim, and saved himself and his teenage daughter, but by the time he returned to find my sister, her children and my mother, they were trapped under the overturned boat and had disappeared. A new house was built in Jabalpur, house warming ceremony was held, daughter Siya had got good marks and there was a festive atmosphere everywhere.

There are still two first-round series that need to be decided, but the NHL is itching to get the second round of the Stanley Cup Finals underway.

The first series to get rolling is the first-ever postseason meeting between the Carolina Hurricanes and Philadelphia Flyers, and do you know what an occasion like this calls for?

Hell yeah, brother: beer skates!

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Don’t overthink this one. Starting with Game 1, fans at the Lenovo Center in Raleigh can order up a big plastic skate full of beer, Das Boot style!

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It’s beautiful.

At the risk of sounding like a total simpleton, I like how you can see the beer thanks to the see-through holder, and I bet you that thing makes light domestic draft beers taste at least 30% better.

Beer and hockey just go together, don’t they?

Plus, we are living in the golden era of putting beer in hockey gear. Two years ago, the Hurricanes — who are like what you’d get if you put Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison together and made them focus on novelty hockey beer vessels — introduced the beer stick, which, as the name implies, is a stick full of beer.

And you already know that the lunatics — a term I use with the utmost respect and admiration — in Buffalo won’t get left out of this discussion.

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The Sabres are moving on to the second round as well and will face the winner of the ongoing Tampa Bay Lightning-Montreal Canadiens series, and they’ve been selling Sabres-branded beer sabres.

And Buffalo fans who kept their beer sabres — and you’d be nuts not to keep those beauties for everyday use — may have been able to refill them with a little Molson Canadian. The Canadian beer company announced that they were giving Buffalo fans free beer during Game 6 against the Boston Bruins as a thank you for singing “O Canada” when the anthem singer’s microphone crapped out.

The legal battle over abortion pills escalated to the Supreme Court on Saturday, as the manufacturer of mifepristone filed an emergency request warning a lower court ruling is already causing “immediate confusion and upheaval” across the country.

Danco Laboratories is asking the high court to quickly block a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that blocked mail-order access and reinstated in-person requirements for the drug, arguing the ruling is disrupting access and creating nationwide uncertainty about legality.

The ruling directly affects the distribution of mifepristone, Danco’s primary product.

Mifepristone is one of two drugs commonly used in medication abortions.

The application was directed to Justice Samuel Alito, who handles emergency matters from the 5th Circuit and can either act on his own or refer the request to the full court. The Supreme Court could act at any time.

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In its filing, Danco warned the appeals court’s order is already creating “chaos” in real-world medical settings.

“The panel’s ruling injects immediate confusion and upheaval into highly time-sensitive medical decisions,” the company wrote, adding it is forcing “providers, patients, and pharmacies all to guess at what is allowed and what is not.”

The filing raises immediate questions, including what happens to existing abortion pill prescriptions, pharmacy dispensing and access to in-person visits.

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“What happens when patients arrive for scheduled appointments this weekend… or walk into pharmacies… to obtain [the drug] that was prescribed… yesterday?” the filing states.

Danco is asking the court to immediately pause the ruling through an administrative stay, then block it longer term while litigation continues. The company also suggested the justices could take up the case on an expedited schedule before the end of the term, a move that could reshape the court’s already packed 2026 docket.

The emergency appeal comes just one day after the 5th Circuit issued its ruling, which blocked the mailing of mifepristone and effectively barred pharmacy distribution under the challenged FDA rules, requiring women to obtain the drug in-person from a medical provider.

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“Of course they filed an emergency petition. Big Pharma has gotten extremely rich after the unprecedented and radical deregulation of these dangerous abortion pills,” 40 Days for Life President Shawn Carney told Fox News Digital.

“No abortion advocate or anyone from Big Pharma was pushing to send these drugs through the mail just a few years ago, and now they act as if they’re entitled to do so with zero regulation and zero oversight,” Carney added. “This is more evidence the FDA needs to reevaluate how these drugs were approved after years of ER visits from women who take them.”

Abortion-rights advocates said the ruling has “upended” access to care nationwide, particularly for patients relying on telemedicine, while legal groups warned it is creating confusion for providers trying to comply with rapidly changing rules.

New York Attorney General Letitia James said the decision is “yet another cruel attack on abortion access,” adding that “mifepristone is safe, effective, and essential.”

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The underlying case is still ongoing in lower courts, but the emergency filing now places the dispute squarely before the Supreme Court in what could become the next major legal showdown over abortion policy.

The justices could choose to pause the ruling immediately, allowing the current system to remain in place while the case proceeds, or let the restrictions take effect nationwide.

Danco Laboratories did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

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Israeli attacks intensify in South Lebanon, allegations of arson of houses

According to Lebanon’s national news agency, the Israeli army has carried out an airstrike on the Burj Kalawiya area in the Bint Jbeil district of southern Lebanon. The area was also shelled with heavy artillery. The agency also said that incidents of setting fire to many houses have been reported in the border village Khiyam, due to which there is an atmosphere of panic among the local people.

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West Asia Live: Lebanon’s Prime Minister appeals to distance himself from inciting hatred; Israeli attacks intensify in South Lebanon

Israel Iran US Conflict Live Updates: The war in West Asia, which started on February 28, is currently under the shadow of a ceasefire. Behind the scenes, efforts are being made for talks between America and Iran. Meanwhile, 14 members of the Revolutionary Guard were killed when a bomb exploded near Zanjan city of Iran. These bombs were from the war time which did not explode at that time. This is the biggest accident after the ceasefire on April 7. Read all the moment-to-moment updates related to the ongoing conflict in West Asia in this live blog of Amar Ujala…