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“Friends” star Lisa Kudrow played a washed-up sitcom actress, Valerie Cherish, in the 2005 HBO comedy “The Comeback.” The show was cancelled, but it earned a cult following, and then returned in 2014. Now, “The Comeback” is itself making a comeback for a third season. Kudrow talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about her love for playing Phoebe Buffay; her aptitude for “cringe comedy”; and how…

In this web exclusive, Emmy-winning actress Lisa Kudrow talks with Tracy Smith about “Friends,” and her HBO show “The Comeback.” Source link

After 40 years in showbiz, Lisa Kudrow is making a “comeback.” Her HBO series, “The Comeback,” is the story of a faded sitcom star, Valerie Cherish, who signs on to a reality show about her attempts to stage a comeback. It’s equal parts funny and cringey, and so is the show’s back-story. Created by Emmy-winner Kudrow and former “Sex and the City” boss Michael Patrick King, “The Comeback”…

Before high school, Kudrow got a nose job, which gave her face the sleekness of a Brancusi bird. “But I still couldn’t find a boyfriend,” she said. “My father would tell me, ‘You gotta be light and flirty like your sister is.’ I just went, Oh, then it’s not going to happen.” She gave up theatre for biology, thinking she’d become a doctor like her father and her brother, who was in medical school.…