He had some pretty progressive views on treating addiction based on his own experience with it. Also he was my favorite on the show even though the show is undeniably problematic in many ways, it still brought me comfort to come home and watch it after facing bigotry back in high school, kind of an escapism into a reality where I could be an adult with friends.

All in all I am mildly shocked and bummed, but it's hard to merit much dismay about the death of a wealthy actor when I'm already much more concerned about oppressed Palestinians.

I'm just now hearing this for the first time...

this is the guy who did the gunboat diplomacy, right?

That's young to go.

Shit comes in 3s. Come on it's your turn bastard.

Dude fucked his body up pretty good when Friends was at its peak. In addition to being unfunny sitcom slop for , watching him and Courtney Cox being the TV poster couple for the horrible effects of unchecked Hollywood excess was unsettling.

Perry, the son of actor John Bennett Perry and Suzanne Marie Langford, onetime press secretary of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was born in 1969 and grew up between Montreal and Los Angeles after his parents separated when Perry was 1.

What in the goddamn...?

Dang that's crazy

So anyways

Oh wait this isn't c/fakenews. RIP

He was murdered

whenever reflecting on a different dead actor (for example River Phoenix or Chris Farley), Matthew Perry would say (in his memoirs released in 2022) it wasn't fair/right that they were dead and Keanu Reeves was still alive.

i know it's a thing to worship keanu, but by many accounts he seems to be a fairly shy, decent guy who has experienced pretty severe personal tragedies (stillborn child, wife died in car accident, sister with leukemia) and comes across as someone grounded and relatable.

i haven't found perry amusing for about 20 years and despite being the star of [White] FRIENDS, he completely shit the bed at doing anything else, probably because his one-note bitter-sarcastic "acting" range didn't translate to anything after his little star vehicle ran itself into the ground.... meanwhile everyone else in that cast went on to do some critically acclaimed work. my personal favorite moves of former friends main cast:

• Matt LeBlanc as himself, Episodes - pretty hilarious critique of how the sausage is made when it comes to sitcoms - i still use Matt LeBlanc's ringtone from the show as my ringtone because it makes me laugh, even after many years.
• Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish, The Comeback - brilliant takedown of "reality" tv production specifically, and sitcoms/the hollywood system more generally

Damn. He was the best part of friends and killed it as Benny. RIP.

I thought this was a c/fakenews post from regularassbitch or GayTuckerCarlson

talk about a reversal

I made up a tasteless joke.

rest in piss

Death to America

Tbh when I heard this, I almost spread a rumor in my circle that Matt berry from what we do in the shadows died

this summer i got drunk and fell asleep in a hot tub. glad i didn’t drown! (my back was covered in cup-like marks from the air jets though. almost as bad)

anyone got a link to the audiobook of him reading his own memoir?

Benny : From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18-carat run of bad luck.

:(

To my very limited knowledge, I don't think he did or said anything too bad. And apparently he beat up a young Justin Trudeau in like elementary school.

So I am withholding my "Another Krakkker Down" and putting out a tentative "RIP".

Israeli poison gas claims another Friends star