Patty Lin, a former TV writer, is opening up about her experience working on the hit sitcom Friends and says that she did not have the best experience.
After working on Freaks and Geeks, Lin had the opportunity to write for the hit NBC sitcom in the year 2000. The thought of writing for big stars like Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer. “But the novelty of seeing Big Stars up close wore off fast, along with my zeal about breakfast.
The actors seemed unhappy to be chained to a tired old show when they could be branching out, and I felt like they were constantly wondering how every given script would specifically serve them,” Lin wrote in her memoir End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood (via Time).
She continued, “They all knew how to get a laugh, but if they didn’t like a joke, they seemed to deliberately tank it, knowing we’d rewrite it.
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