Tom Selleck Asked Matthew Perry for Line Readings on ‘Friends’ Set to Make His Jokes Sound Funnier: ‘He Was the Most Talented’ of the Group

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1. **Selleck :**

   > “Matt told me: ‘It’s a joke, Tom. It’s the way he says it.’ I kept going up to him asking, ‘Can you say it again?’ and he’d do the line. That was his signature…[Perry] walked onto the set, and that brought the house down. He was raw talent. I think he was the most talented of a very talented group of people.”

2. Almost heroes is one of my favorite movies. It’s also terribly sad considering what both Matthew and Chris were going thru, but goddamn is that movie hilarious.

3. Courtney Cox catching strays

4. You have to pick your moments. See what I mean?

5. I have always maintained that Mathew Perry as Chandler made up at least 70% of FRIENDS’ comedic power.

6. It’s not like Tom Selleck would sell any bullshit, no sireee not old Tom. You would never see him reverse uno old people.

7. I wish Matthew Perry could hear all of the praise that’s been vocalized since his death. Maybe that episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm (where Albert Brooks hosts a fake funeral so he can hear all the eulogies about himself lol) was onto something…

8. What is he good at math or something?

9. Mimic, body language, intonation – everything fit. It could not be any better. It was perfection.

10. Liitle known fact but Matt was the inventor of Mattspeak which is now known today as sarcasm.

11. Ask Matthew Perry for a line, and snort it?