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Jerry Seinfeld Has a Brutal Take on ‘Friends,’ and He Kind of Has a Point

The similarities are oddly specific.

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Jerry Seinfeld has been taking shots at Friends for more than two decades at this point. In 2003, Bob Costas asked the comedian if he thought NBC would’ve given Seinfeld time to succeed if it’d premiered then instead of in 1989. 

“Has Friends been on too?” Seinfeld asked, to which Costas replied, “Yeah, Friends has been on.” “Really?” Seinfeld sarcastically responded, “So they managed to steal it without seeing it!”

Seinfeld’s opinion doesn’t appear to have changed one bit over the years. This past May, at the Netflix Is a Joke Fest, he repeated a belief that he’s shared on a number of other occasions, which is that Friends was just his show with good-looking people. Seinfeld reportedly kept that same energy with Lisa........

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