Jennifer Aniston Says “There’s a Whole Generation of People” Who Finds ‘Friends’ Offensive | THR News - video Dailymotion

While promoting her upcoming film ‘Murder Mystery 2’, Aniston explained that comedy is more complicated today than it used to be.

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00:00Jennifer Aniston recently opened up about how there may be a whole new generation of people

00:04that find her iconic sitcom friends offensive. While promoting her upcoming film Murder Mystery

00:112, Aniston explained that comedy is more complicated today than it used to be. She told

00:16AFP,

00:17Now it's a little tricky because you have to be very careful, which makes it really hard

00:21for comedians because the beauty of comedy is that we make fun of ourselves, make fun

00:25of life. The actress then pointed out that when Friends was airing in the 90s, it was funny

00:40and people looked past some of the potentially more controversial takes the sitcom had.

00:45There's a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of Friends

00:49and find them offensive. There were things that were never intentional and others, well,

00:53we should have thought it through, but I don't think there was a sensitivity like there is

00:57now. She added that sadly, sensitivity may be why there are fewer comedies out these days.

01:02Everybody needs funny. The world needs humor. We can't take ourselves too seriously, especially

01:07in the United States. Everyone is far too divided. For more on this story, head to THR.com. And

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