Zap2it: How did your starring in an update of "The Odd Couple" come to be?
Matthew Perry: Well, the whole thing started ... I was driving around in my car and it's really weird how this whole thing started. I thought it would be great to remake 'The Odd Couple.' I had a cast in mind, a network in mind, and then found out that it was actually being developed at CBS. And so, almost everything that I thought of in the car came true.
Zap2it: What is the spirit like on the set?
Matthew Perry: There's really an open atmosphere creatively, like, 'Best joke wins wherever it comes from.' If the craft service person comes up with a funny joke, it's in the show. And I think that's the best way to do a TV show, so there's nobody tyrannical. And so we are pushing jokes all day long, and that's a really fun place to be.
Zap2it: You did two other comedy series between "Friends" and this one, "Mr. Sunshine" and "Go On." How did doing those affect what you're doing now?
Matthew Perry: What I took from that experience, I'm pretty proud of both of those shows. They had their moments and at least aspired to be something different, which was cool. But the hours were just insane, and I forgot the hours on a sitcom [like this] are actual normal hours.
You work from 10:00am to 4:00pm, and you can actually have like a normal life -- and it's really fun to be in front of an audience, and I hadn't done that since 2004, so that was really fun. It's really interesting how our performances come way up when the audience is there.
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