{"id":269336,"date":"2019-03-14T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1023467"},"modified":"2019-03-14T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:10:00","slug":"matt-leblanc-reveals-which-friends-co-star-was-not-a-fan-of-marcel-the-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/matt-leblanc-reveals-which-friends-co-star-was-not-a-fan-of-marcel-the-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt LeBlanc Reveals Which Friends Co-Star Was Not a Fan of Marcel the Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019214\/rs_600x600-190314061247-600-Matt-LeBlanc-Marcel-Friends-LT-031419-GettyImages-833491304-NBC.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.701834862385\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"16.211009174312\">\n<p>All these years later, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/matt_leblanc\">Matt LeBlanc<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;remembers his famous&nbsp;<em>Friends<\/em> co-star fondly\u2014and no, we&#8217;re not talking about&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jennifer_aniston\">Jennifer Aniston<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/matthew_perry\">Matthew Perry<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/courteney_cox\">Courteney Cox<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/david_schwimmer\">David Schwimmer<\/a><\/strong> or&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/lisa_kudrow\">Lisa Kudrow<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the famous cast are still friends today, but there&#8217;s one bonafide star of the show that holds a place in the actor&#8217;s heart: Marcel the Monkey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fans probably recall Ross adopting a capuchin monkey during season one. While the animal wreaked some entertaining havoc on the characters&#8217; lives, behind the scenes, it was a similar story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"55.302325581395\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5.7209302325581\">\n<p>As LeBlanc recalled to&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jimmy_kimmel\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a><\/strong> on Wednesday night, they were shooting one day on the sound stage when the monkey climbed up the lights to the ceiling and disappeared into the blackness. &#8220;It took half an hour,&#8221; he remembered. &#8220;They&#8217;re waving mealworms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17\">\n<p>No matter the mayhem, the actor didn&#8217;t mind the capuchin, who was actually a girl monkey named Katie, according to LeBlanc. &#8220;I liked the monkey,&#8221; he said on the late-night show. &#8220;I like animals. The monkey was really cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, not everyone was a fan. &#8220;Schwimmer not so much,&#8221; the star ironically revealed. &#8220;He&#8217;s the one that had to work with it the most, so he was like, &#8216;Again with the monkey?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sounds life life really imitated art.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1023467\/matt-leblanc-reveals-which-friends-co-star-was-not-a-fan-of-marcel-the-monkey?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All these years later, Matt LeBlanc&nbsp;remembers his famous&nbsp;Friends co-star fondly\u2014and no, we&#8217;re not talking about&nbsp;Jennifer Aniston,&nbsp;Matthew Perry,&nbsp;Courteney Cox,&nbsp;David Schwimmer or&nbsp;Lisa Kudrow.&nbsp; Sure, the famous cast are still friends today, but there&#8217;s one bonafide star of the show that holds a place in the actor&#8217;s heart: Marcel the Monkey.&nbsp; Fans probably recall Ross adopting a capuchin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-269336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 19:50:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}