What if the Friends characters were gay? | PkNews

Contents:

• ‘JOEY, YOU’RE GAY!’: INSI THE SURPRISG FRIENDS JOKE THE WRERS REMOVED
• WHAT IF THE FRIENDS CHARACTERS WERE GAY?
• FRIENDS JOKE ABOUT MATT LEBLANC’S JOEY TRIBBIANI BEG GAY ‘CUT OM ORIGAL SCRIPT’
• FRIENDS WRERS CUT A JOKE ABOUT JOEY BEG SECRETLY GAY
• JOEY OM “FRIENDS” WAS GAY & CLOSETED JOKE CUT OM SEASON 4 FALE
• FRIENDS JOKE ABOUT MATT LEBLANC’S JOEY TRIBBIANI BEG GAY ‘CUT OM ORIGAL SCRIPT’
• FRIENDS: MATTHEW PERRY SAID ‘NO’ TO STORYLE ABOUT CHANDLER SNEAKG TO GAY BAR

‘JOEY, YOU’RE GAY!’: INSI THE SURPRISG FRIENDS JOKE THE WRERS REMOVED

Much has been wrten about the legacy of Friends and how, viewed hdsight, was problematic how picted and diststed homosexualy particular. Or the One Where Ross photoshopped Chandler to gay pornography as a prank?

We know seems unlikely that Joey Tribbiani, the most womanisg man the group, was quietly nursg homosexual sir. We know that Chandler seemed the more stereotypil, cliched ndidate thanks to his aforementned 'qualy', or that Ross's explic homophobia uld fact shield unnsc sir. But 's te: Joey was the one who the wrers explicly referred to as gay one episo, before letg the fal occurred The One Wh Ross's Weddg, when most of the iends flew to London to see Ross marry Ey.

WHAT IF THE FRIENDS CHARACTERS WERE GAY?

But the origal script - published the tie- book which prted the entire origal script, gave Phoebe an addn: 'Or, "Hey, Joey, you're gay.

We know that this statement don't mean that the wrers planned then abandoned a storyle where Joey tly do put women behd him and out as gay.

"Friends but ’s about a lbian uple, Rachel and Moni, the lovely gay uple that liv across the hall om them, Chandler and Joey, their quirky pansexual bt iend Phoebe and their iend, a heterosexual douchebag named Ross”This work is screenplay and s format. When he fds out that one of his stunts is up for the same role, he attempts to sabotage the stunt's efforts by enuragg him to play the character gay.

FRIENDS JOKE ABOUT MATT LEBLANC’S JOEY TRIBBIANI BEG GAY ‘CUT OM ORIGAL SCRIPT’

He is ially shunned by Chandler when he rrectly assum that he is gay. Delvalle/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Imag)Friends fans may be surprised to learn that the origal script featured a joke about Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc) beg gay, which was eventually cut.

FRIENDS WRERS CUT A JOKE ABOUT JOEY BEG SECRETLY GAY

Friends has been cricised the past over var aspects of the show, cludg lack of diversy the st, sexist dialogue and fat-shamg – wh some people labellg certa plot pots ‘homophobic’ and ‘problematic’. It appears that a memorable episo was supposed to clu a reference to Joey possibly beg gay, wh the aspirg actor known for his womanisg ways the seri.

However, acrdg to a book of the origal script, Phoebe was also supposed to say: ‘Or, “Hey, Joey, you’re gay”, ’ as reported by Grazia. Speakg to Today, she said: ‘We were never pokg fun at beg gay.

JOEY OM “FRIENDS” WAS GAY & CLOSETED JOKE CUT OM SEASON 4 FALE

In Febary 2018, Matt fend Friends over claims of homophobia and fat-shamg, tellg the BBC: ‘I’ve heard those mours too about people takg pot shots at Friends, but I don’t want to get to that. Friends wrers ially clud a joke about Joey beg secretly gay. Friends wrers origally clud a joke  the much-loved TV show about Joey beg secretly gay, but was later cut.

As news of the eagerly-anticipated Friends rnn was announced, has also emerged that an early draft of “The One Wh Ross’s Weddg” explicly referred to Joey as gay.

But acrdg to Grazia, the first draft of the scene, published the book of the origal Friends script, saw Phoebe ntue: “Or, ‘Hey, Joey, you’re gay. A joke about Joey Tribbiani beg gay was cut om an episo of Friends, an early versn of the script revealed.

FRIENDS JOKE ABOUT MATT LEBLANC’S JOEY TRIBBIANI BEG GAY ‘CUT OM ORIGAL SCRIPT’

Reported that a draft script for the season four fale, “The One Wh Ross’s Weddg, ” had a joke where Phoebe said that Joey is gay. Related: Was Chandler om “Friends” meant to be gay?

But the draft script, she adds another joke: “Or ‘Hey, Joey, you’re gay. Friends has faced cricism recent years due to the show’s negative portrayal of LGBTQ people, cludg the humanizg way Chandler’s transgenr parent was treated, the immature lbian jok Ross’s ex-wife Carol was the butt of, and the nstant fear male characters the show lived of beg thought of as gay, g them to fear and lgh at boys and men who dance, take re of children, or play wh dolls (gay, gay, and so gay that ’s OK to be mean to your own child over). What’s unual about Phoebe’s cut joke is that was ually Ross and Chandler who were spected of beg gay, not womanizg Joey.

And perhaps that’s why the joke didn’t make the fal ed: ’s possible that Joey’s entire character was a refully nstcted fa for a closeted gay man, but that’s a long, arduo path for a s to go down jt for a rather un-funny zger that isn’t even need bee immediately followed one that ma the same pot. Gay Republin group touts support for anti-trans legislatn & mocks out sger T.

FRIENDS: MATTHEW PERRY SAID ‘NO’ TO STORYLE ABOUT CHANDLER SNEAKG TO GAY BAR

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