Looking back at how Perry humanized one of TV comedy’s greatest jokesters, and taught us that smarm and a little bit of cynicism sits beautifully alongside emotion and love.
One of the greatest lies polite society ever told was that sarcasm is a bad thing. That people who rely on it use it as a crutch, a shield, or a mask—a way of presenting themselves to the world without having to be authentic, vulnerable, or, scariest of all, earnest.
If you’re anything like me, your Saturday night was interrupted by a flurry of texts, alerts, and social media posts reacting in shock to the news that Perry had Of course, you can’t reclaim a title you never lost. The show and its characters have been practically sewn into our souls, personalities, and senses of humor over the last 30 years.and its ubiquity is timeless. So how can one of its actors’ time be cut short? How can Matthew Perry be dead?
Perry did seem acutely aware of the idea that, especially in sitcoms, a sarcastic line delivery can be a lazy band-aid over uninspired writing or apathetic acting. He had a sense of the totality of what a character like Chandler could be, and the emotional shades behind a person who is assigned the shorthand of the “funny guy.”
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