Hannah Fry

And I think each friend is a different template for all the different ways that you can either replicate or reject.

That's so interesting.

Yeah.

I would say nearly all the jokes is about quite intricate psychoanalysis.

Yeah.

I did like a really try hardy paper when I was at uni that was like comparing all the characters of Friends to the characters and the tropes of Comedia dell'arte.

Yeah.

Beautiful So glad we met Oh my god Can you imagine If you and I had met When we I mean we talk about this All the time Yeah

It would have been so unbearable.

The other day, my friend Lauren reminded me that in my statement for university, it ended with a quote from Joni Mitchell, from a Joni Mitchell song called Woodstock.

And the line is, we are stardust, we are golden, and we have to get ourselves back to the garden.

And I quoted that and I said, this is a sentiment I'd love to live out at your university.

We must get back to the garden.

At Royal Holloway University.

Great.

But yeah, I think so much of the comedy is about understanding everything about these characters and then the comedy being them doing something that's totally predictable and aligns with what we know of their character or totally out of character.

And that also is funny.

But as you said, what we know about them normally in sitcom is quite broad brushstrokes, understanding of like these splodges of characterisation.

Whereas with this stuff, it's like Monica's really controlling and that's probably because of her controlling mother.

Yeah.