Lisa Kudrow on Watching ‘Friends’ After Matthew Perry’s Death, ‘Romy & Michele’ Sequel and Why ‘The Comeback’ May Be “Highlight” of Her Career

Lisa Kudrow is one of the most beloved TV actresses of the past 40 years. She is, of course, best known for playing, from 1994 through 2004, Phoebe Buffay, a New Age guitar-playing masseuse, on NBC’s Friends, which the New York Times has suggested “might be the best-liked sitcom ever,” and for which, in 1998, she became the first of the show’s core sextet to win an Emmy. But she has also done extensive and acclaimed work outside of that show, perhaps more so than any of her Friends costars. Indeed, Kudrow was also memorable before Friends — and even for a while overlapping with it — on another staple of NBC’s ‘Must-See TV’ era, Mad About…