# Matthew Perry on The Daily Show
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-perry-on-the-daily-show/570067
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 3, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-perry-on-the-daily-show/570067 "2011-02-03T21:13:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-perry-on-the-daily-show/570067/1 "2011-02-03T21:13:31Z")
I haven’t seen Matthew Perry in anything in a long time, and, to be honest, his absence hasn’t really come to my notice at all.
But I just saw his interview on _The Daily Show_ and his curmudgeonly shtik really cracked me up.
I especially liked his story about his best friend who is so happy that “It has started to affect our friendship.” He talked about how he stopped asking him “How are you?” because the answer would be unbearably upbeat. Then one day, he forgot and asked him how he was and he gave some answer about how he had just dropped of his kids and they were so great and blah, blah, blah.
Perry: So, then I said, “That’s great. I’m going to go masturbate into some money.”
Cracked me up.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-perry-on-the-daily-show/570067/2 "2011-02-03T21:55:51Z")
Haven’t watched that episode of TDS yet, but I just watched him on Letterman. He kept going on and on and on with a pointless story about colonics. Dave kept trying to get him to move on but he wouldn’t. Since Perry was plugging his new TV show, I expected some discussion about it, maybe a clip. But Dave was so irked he just ended the interview and went to commercial.
Smart move Chandler.
(Usually it’s the other way around. Dave wants to keep going on and on about a topic and the guest tries to change the subject.)
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### Author:  [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-perry-on-the-daily-show/570067/3 "2011-02-03T23:37:47Z")
Yes, as Jon Stewart said, “I did not see that last line coming.”
But the Daily Show guests rarely actually plug the project they’re there for; celebrity guests at least, it seems to me.
I also loved how Perry asked Stewart if he’d ask him to stay longer and “throw it up on the web”, and Stewart just deadpanned, “No, I think we’ve covered it all.”
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-perry-on-the-daily-show/570067/4 "2011-02-04T00:28:06Z")
I saw a blurb that said his new show on NBC is actually very funny. The co-star is Allison Janney, of _West Wing_ fame. Pilot is next Wednesday at 9:30, if anybody wants to check it out.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2011, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-perry-on-the-daily-show/570067/5 "2011-02-04T06:07:22Z")
I hope it’s a success; I miss Matthew Perry on tv. I loved him on “Studio 60,” but apparently I was in the vast minority.
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### Author:  [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2011, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-perry-on-the-daily-show/570067/6 "2011-02-04T06:26:27Z")
I’m looking forward to seeing Andrea Anders on TV again. She’s one of those actresses who is distractingly beautiful.
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### Author:  [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2011, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-perry-on-the-daily-show/570067/7 "2011-02-04T07:45:31Z")
I always hated _Friends_, and never thought much of any of the cast members, until I saw Perry’s guest role on the _West Wing_. I was blown away by how good he was. I am looking forward to this show, to see the pairing of Janney and Perry again. And I did enjoy him on the Daily Show, I like anyhow who brings up MTV’s _The Jon Stewart Show_. Ah, the glorious '90s (except for _Friends_).
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2011, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-perry-on-the-daily-show/570067/8 "2011-02-04T10:16:43Z")
> [@ftg](#):
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> Haven’t watched that episode of TDS yet, but I just watched him on Letterman. He kept going on and on and on with a pointless story about colonics. Dave kept trying to get him to move on but he wouldn’t. Since Perry was plugging his new TV show, I expected some discussion about it, maybe a clip. But Dave was so irked he just ended the interview and went to commercial.
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> Smart move Chandler.
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> (Usually it’s the other way around. Dave wants to keep going on and on about a topic and the guest tries to change the subject.)
Seeing as he gave a good interview on _The Daily Show_ (despite its much tighter time restraints) and considering the topic he got stuck on, I’d tend to assume that Perry didn’t really want to be there and was only doing the show for contract reasons. It’s that close to literally talking about bovine defecation.
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### Author:  [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2011, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-perry-on-the-daily-show/570067/9 "2011-02-04T13:00:43Z")
I was amazed at how awful Perry looked on TDS.
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-perry-on-the-daily-show/570067/10 "2011-02-04T13:12:33Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#):
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> I hope it’s a success; I miss Matthew Perry on tv. I loved him on “Studio 60,” but apparently I was in the vast minority.
I liked Perry in that show. I just didn’t like the show overall. I think you can do a comedy or a soap about SNL but not as a serious drama.
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-perry-on-the-daily-show/570067/11 "2011-02-04T13:21:11Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#):
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> I hope it’s a success; I miss Matthew Perry on tv. I loved him on “Studio 60,” but apparently I was in the vast minority.
I don’t know if you’d be in the minority for liking Perry’s performance in and of itself. I think the cast did anywhere from a pretty good to an outstanding job on that show. It failed not because of the performances, but because Aaron Sorkin never could figure out what the show was about and wrote himself deeper and deeper into a hole he couldn’t get out of. A rare swing-and-a-miss for him. But I agree that Perry was terrific (as was Bradley Whitford).
(Or what **acsenray** said…)
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### Author:  [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-perry-on-the-daily-show/570067/12 "2011-02-04T18:12:23Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#):
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> I was amazed at how awful Perry looked on TDS.
I was kind of struck by how old he looked, at first - he’s in his early '40s, right? - but then I think it’s that he looked so young for so long. He looked really young, then post-rehab chubby but still young, then out of the public eye for awhile, and then all of a sudden wrinkles and such. I think he’s a regular smoker - the one time I met him, he was having a smoke alone outside a restaurant and lit my cigarette for me - and I think prescription drugs were quite a problem for him. And the spiky hair made him look old-trying-to-look-young.