Lisa Kudrow Gets Candid On Friends' Lack Of Racial Diversity

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Lisa Kudrow is known best for her portrayal as the enigmatic Phoebe Buffay on the '90s TV phenomenon Friends. However, despite its influence, Friends is routinely mocked for having little to no people of color anywhere at any time throughout its run, which Kurdrow recently addressed.

Kudrow recently reflected on Friends getting the flak it has for its notable lack of diversity in its ten seasons on the air. Kudrow presented a rather unique take on why the show was executed the way it was by telling it from the show creators' perspective.

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During an interview with the Daily Beast, Kudrow said she believed that because Friends was about their experience of life after college, the showrunners could only write about what they knew personally, so they couldn't have written racially diverse characters. «Well, I feel like it was a show created by two people who went to Brandeis and wrote about their lives after college. And for shows especially, when it’s going to be a comedy that’s character-driven, you write what you know,» Kudrow said. «They have no business writing stories about the experiences of being a person of color. I think at that time, the big problem that I was seeing was, 'Where’s the apprenticeship?'»

Kudrow has a point that showrunners who are writing a show based on their own personal experiences may find it difficult to write about people of other races since they don't know their own experiences. However, there is a simple fix to that, which is hiring people of color to capture their own experiences. At the same time, it was the 1990s. Back then, shows did not consider diversity a major priority in their cast or in their crew. Simple as that. That