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Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Chris Isaak, Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox in Friends.Mainly because the definition of sitcom was in flux: what seems obviously sitcom now wasn’t 15 years ago. When she spoke about the issue, Victoria Wood was talking expressly about “the kind of sitcom that is filmed in front of a studio audience and has very obvious jokes,” whose death she attributed toand The Royle Family’s naturalism and their “ironic, self-aware comedy.
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