to X (formerly Twitter) Azaria, 59, recalled how he and Perry, who was found dead at his California home on Saturday, would often spend many nights drinking and laughing together. “Matthew was the first friend I made in Los Angeles, when I moved there.
I was 21, he was 16,” Azaria began in his lengthy tribute, adding that the pair met while filming a TV pilot for a show called “Morning Maggie.” “Matthew and I became really good friends,” Azaria continued. “And we were really more like brothers for a long time.
We drank a lot together, we laughed a lot together, we were there for each other in the early days of our career.” According to “The Birdcage” star, Perry’s comedic chops not only served him well on “Friends” and all his other projects, but also in the real world. “As funny as he was on ‘Friends’ — and he was — and other things too.
He was just the funniest man ever. He lived to laugh,” he noted.Azaria and Perry reunited several times during the sitcom’s 10-year run as the actor would often guest star as Phoebe Buffay’s (Lisa Kudrow) on-and-off-again scientist boyfriend David.
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