Friends Facts

Each Friends lead earns $20 million a year from reruns, more than two decades after the show ended. Aniston, Cox, Kudrow, LeBlanc, Perry, and Schwimmer negotiated a 2% stake in syndication revenue - a deal Kudrow confirmed in 2026. A guest who played "Fun Bobby" in just two episodes still gets about $2,000 a year.

Lisa Kudrow co-authored a medical study Before Friends premiered, she spent years working for her father, a headache doctor. In 1994 her name went on a peer-reviewed headache study. She also has a biology degree from Vassar.