Jennifer Aniston says ‘Friends’ offensive to ‘a whole generation of kids’ – National | 24CA News
It’s The One With the Brutally Honest Actor: Friends star Jennifer Aniston is the newest movie star to debate the difficulties of working in comedy and making trendy, apparently extra delicate audiences giggle.
Aniston, who has been working in movie and comedy for almost three many years, informed the French news company AFP that it’s turn out to be “a little tricky” to supply comedies as a result of you must be “very careful.” She mentioned that is particularly troubling as a result of “the beauty of comedy is that we make fun of ourselves, make fun of life.”
Aniston, 54, lamented the previous when she mentioned: “You could joke about a bigot and have a laugh — that was hysterical. And it was about educating people on how ridiculous people were.”
She used her position as Rachel Green within the Nineties sitcom Friends for instance of how audiences have developed over time.
“There’s a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of Friends and find them offensive,” she mentioned.
Aniston blamed the offensiveness on a mixture of “things that were never intentional” and components of this system that simply lacked thought.
Friends, a comedy about six younger folks in New York, has lengthy since been criticized for an absence of range. All of the present’s foremost characters are white. While actors of color appeared sparsely briefly cameo roles, probably the most outstanding, non-white actor on the present, Aisha Tyler (who performed Charlie Wheeler), appeared in solely 9 episodes.
Some of the jokes in buddies have additionally been labelled transphobic or homophobic.
Co-creator of the sitcom, Marta Kauffman, mentioned final yr she was “embarrassed” and felt “guilt” over the shortage of range in Friends.
“It’s painful looking at yourself in the mirror. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know better 25 years ago,” Kauffman informed the Los Angeles Times.
Friends ran from 1994 to 2004. It is among the most worthwhile sitcoms ever created, bringing in reportedly US$1.4 billion since its preliminary debut.
As a results of elevated sensitivity, Aniston mentioned much less comedies are being made as we speak than in many years prior. Not having comedies, she mentioned, is a tragedy.
“Everybody needs funny! The world needs humour!” she mentioned. “We can’t take ourselves too seriously. Especially in the United States. Everyone is far too divided.”
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Numerous widespread comedians have already complained about producing comedy within the post-woke age. In explicit, Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock have been particularly outspoken about cancel tradition and comedy.
Still, Aniston prices on. In her newest comedy, Murder Mystery 2, Aniston performs Audrey Spitz, a detective fixing the case of a kidnapped billionaire alongside her associate Nick (performed by Adam Sandler). Murder Mystery 2 is on the market to stream on Netflix on Friday.
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