Lisa Kudrow did not know Space Force was real when she signed up for comedy

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Lisa Kudrow has said she had no idea the US Space Force was a real initiative announced by Donald Trump when she signed up for a new Netflix comedy of the same name.

The workplace comedy is inspired by the new the branch of the US armed forces and is about the men and women responsible for setting it up.

The Friends star told the PA news agency: “What can I say? I think it was a function of that – there’s so much stuff and information to tease out all the time that I just sort of threw my hands up in the air. “And so I saw the president’s State of the Union and he mentioned ‘Space Force’ and I was like, ‘Oh well it’s real!’.” She added that she felt it was important to seek out humour in politics, saying: “It’s also making fun of things.