A closer look
Matthew Perry’s real-life sarcastic personality heavily influenced Chandler Bing's character development on the sitcom Friends, to the point where writers would literally just write in the script that Chandler makes a joke and let him improvise. The production team realized they could save thousands of dollars on actual comedy writing by simply letting a naturally cynical twenty-something roast his co-stars on camera. It is the ultimate corporate dream to find an employee so inherently sarcastic that you can stop doing your own job and just coast on their trauma responses. Modern television relies entirely on exploiting the natural coping mechanisms of its actors for our casual evening entertainment, which is incredibly bleak if you actually think about it for more than five seconds
