Matthew Perry (Chandler) has died

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297325#Comment_121297325

No, the poster just said they didn't like that show (hardly a crime now?)

Then they said that if he hadn't had so much money, he might not have developed those issues. Do you disagree? Nobody knows if this is correct or not, but it is a reasonable thing to say. You seem to read it as a personal attack on the deceased.

ancapailldorcha

I feel like he should have had a much better career than he actually did. He was enormously talented but his addiction problem held him back.

He says in his book apparently that he's the celebrity whose death would surprise nobody. Very sad. RIP.

PokeHerKing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297299#Comment_121297299

Yep, I've officially become my parents

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297357#Comment_121297357

Since he developed the addiction as a result of drugs prescribed for an injury, yep it's pretty possible that he would have developed an addiction. You know most opiate addicts aren't rich? The wealth made the option of recovery more accessible in the end though which it sadly isn't for others.

Gusser09

Addiction is a scourge. To laugh or mock someone is the lowest of the low.

Rip chandler.

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297100#Comment_121297100

FFS, if you've nothing to say just don't say it. So, you didn't rate Friends. Millions did.

Bobson Dugnutt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297311#Comment_121297311

You really shouldn’t attempt humour or quips, Donald. You just aren’t funny. That’s ok, lots of people aren’t.

gmisk

His recent book was a tough, but interesting read, it was very warts and all, still sad news.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297378#Comment_121297378

That's perfectly fine Bobson. There are lots of humourless dry sh1tes around. I just don't get too upset on their behalf. I've no problem with you if you are one of them.

It's probably not the best to engage too much with a brand new account so I'll leave it there

clampedusa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297378#Comment_121297378

Hes the funniest in the world. People say it all the time. They ask him 'how are you so funny'.

McFly85

RIP Matthew.

Friends was an absolute game changer for television comedy in the 90s and in many ways embodied the decade, and Chandler was an absolute highlight of the show.

An immensely talented actor who would have been far more prolific without his addiction problems, 54 is far too young to go too. A real tragedy.

Homelander

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297358#Comment_121297358

Loved him in The Whole Nine Yards, a classic easy watch movie.

I'm a huge friends fan, I've seen every episode infinite times and often have it on in the background when working.

No show is for everyone, there's more than a few popular shows that I just don't "get", but anything that becomes a global phenomenom like friends did is doing something very right.

His addiction stemmed from a genuine serious accident, he's just one of millions of people who got addicted to opiods in the 90s as they were pushed far too aggressively and readily. The show Dopesick is an excellent drama about how that happened.

His story really is tragic and he was an undeniable talent, his comic acting was superb. I personally think him and David Schwimmer carried friends, not to say the others aren't good but they were by far the funniest with better range than the others.

prunudo

Friends wasn't really my thing, but the older we get the greater the chance we will lose icons or celebrities who shaped our youth and often contuine to do so. Depending on who they are or your connection with them will effect different people differently. But unfortunately a lot are taken too early due to their lifestyle through either addiction, drugs or the high risk sport they take part in (motorsport).

As I said in the past when my hero's have passed, thank you for entertaining us, rest easy.

893bet

Could he “be” anymore dead?

i remember as a young teen in the 90s not being allowed to watch friends 😀. Too many sex references. A great show of its time.

moonage

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297196#Comment_121297196

"Mispellt." Oops!

I've never been able to get through a full episode of Friends.

I recently saw him in The Whole Nine Yards, which was was pretty enjoyable.

I wonder did his previous drug taking have any bearing on the cardiac arrest. RIP.

orangerhyme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297299#Comment_121297299

Ray Liotta, Coolio, Taylor Hawkins, Kirstie Alley, Norm McDonald, Maradona, Chris Cornell, Dolores O'Riordan, Whitney Houston, Shane Warne, Meat Loaf

HBC08

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297210#Comment_121297210

He was Canadian.

Cup

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297210#Comment_121297210

Junkie is an unnecessarily provocative word, but that’s probably why you used it.

Attempting to recover from a serious addiction is horrendously difficult and painful, and it is a lifelong effort. Many with similar addictions as Matthew had do not make it. Addiction itself is no walk in the park for that matter.

Getting clean and going on to help many others is laudable in itself, and there is no doubt that Matthew changed a lot of lives for the better.

Have some decency.

evolvingtipperary101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297464#Comment_121297464

His mother was the press secretary of Trudeau senior and his father was an actor/model in LA who got steady tv work. Matthew went to the same school as Trudeau junior for a while.

tesla_newbie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297252#Comment_121297252

Friends had “ dry humour “ ?

tesla_newbie

You do wonder if people like this were cursed when they found success in showbiz

might have been a lot better had he been a regular nine to five guy , the millions allowed him over indulge in prescription drugs following his injury

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297497#Comment_121297497

I used that word because I knew the response to it would confirm my point. The posters who baulk at it being used in relation to someone wealthy and famous likely have no issue with it being used for the poor person lying in that wet sleeping bag. They will have compassion for the former but not for the latter. The latter has far less options or hope than the former too.

Jinglejangle69

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297252#Comment_121297252

Wow, you’re so edgy

airy fairy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297588#Comment_121297588

You don't have to have millions to be addicted. An addict of anything will source his/her hit regardless of wealth.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297574#Comment_121297574

Yes it did if it had any humour at all it was all so fake and forced.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297588#Comment_121297588

I suppose the question would be what an 18 year old would choose if you gave them the choice of living fast and dying young or having an average life and living into your 80's. Maybe even a 25 year old or 30 year old.

You'd probably find a split in the responses.

furiousox

Boards should just rebrand as 'X' at this stage.

So many threads with people barking and bickering with each other.....

#tedious

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297367#Comment_121297367

I am not the only one in here who did not like or rate it so why are you picking on me?

It's sad about Mathew Perry. He had a mostly good life do and with the money he had could have done anything even could have ran to be President of the USA if he wanted but unfortunately he never will now.

Was worth at least 80 million dollars.

I hope it was just a heart failure that killed him and not some drugs overdose because if it was that then its even sadder and a waste of a life.

stevejr

Friends was a show of it's time really. The humour hasn't aged well; some of the mean-spirited selfishness of the Seinfeld era still lingered in the writing and the one-note superficiality of the characters can grate with modern audiences.

However Perry's performance always seemed to be a cut above the rest. His screen presence and comic timing and writing contributions made his character the heart of the show. **** all that Ross and Rachel bullshit.

That his abilities shone through his addictions is a testiment to the man.

Rip Man

facehugger99

The one where a really funny guy with addiction issues died way too soon.