Lisa Valerie Kudrow (born July 30, 1963) is an American actress. She gained worldwide recognition in the '90s for portraying Phoebe Buffay in the television sitcom Friends, for which she received many accolades including an Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Kudrow has appeared in many films including Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), Analyze This (1999), Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001), Happy Endings (2005), P.S. I Love You (2007), Bandslam (2008), Hotel for Dogs (2009) and Easy A (2010).
Lisa Kudrow was born in Encino, Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Nedra S. (née Stern), a travel agent, and Dr. Lee N. Kudrow (born 1933), a headache specialist and physician. Her ancestors emigrated from Belarus and lived in the village of Ilya, in the Minsk area, and her great-grandmother was murdered in the Holocaust. Kudrow was raised in a middle-class Jewish family and has an older sister, Helene Marla (born 1960), and an older brother, Santa Monica neurologist David B. Kudrow (born 1957). She is the niece of composer/conductor Harold Farberman. In 1979, at the age of 16, she underwent rhinoplasty to reduce the size of her nose.
Plot
Animated clay figures Johnny Gomez and Nick Diamond host this show, which features a series of no holds barred, to-the-death wrestling matches between animated celebrities. Past matches include Marilyn Manson vs. Charles Manson, The Three Tenors vs. the Three Stooges, Howard Stern vs. Kathy Lee Gifford, and Mary-Kate vs. Ashley. The referee for each match is the unflappable Judge Mills Lane.
Keywords: blindness, blood, broken-arm, broken-back, broken-leg, cannibalism, catfight, clay-animation, death, deathmatch
[each episode's closing line]::Johnny Gomez: Good fight, good night.
[to Ernest Hemingway]::Mankind: You know what the difference between your book and mine is? MINE WEIGHS MORE.::[Clobbers Hemingway with his book]
Mills Lane: Let's get it on.
Mills Lane: All right, young ladies, this is a fight to the death. Now death may not be something you two have thought about, so let me just explain...::Mary-Kate Olsen: [interrupting, to Ashley] I hate you!::Ashley Olsen: I hate you more!::Mary-Kate Olsen: You're stupid!::Ashley Olsen: You're stupider!::Mills Lane: [breaking up the girls' slapping match] Ladies, I haven't even started the fight yet!::Mary-Kate Olsen: She started it!::Ashley Olsen: No, she did!::Mills Lane: [giving up after they try and hit each other] On second thought... just go ahead and get it on!
Anna Kournikova: [about opponent Elizabeth Hurley] Yes, I called her ugly, but I should have called her a pig! I should have called her a hideous, swirly moonie face! I hate her, I hate her! Aaaaaaaaaah!
Cher: [to Bette Midler] Hey, Midler! You got a wide load sign for that ass?
[Axl Rose pulls out a sharp object from under his kilt]::Johnny Gomez: Nick, what the hell is this psycho doing?::[Celtic music played in background]::Nick Diamond: Ancient Scottish soldiers wearing kilts such as Axl's always carried a dagger strapped to their ankle. Tradition has it that once a soldier removes it from its scabbard, he can't put it back without drawing blood... even if it's his own.::Johnny Gomez: It's scissors, Nick.::[Celtic music abruptly stops]::Nick Diamond: Oh... uh, that must be a different tradition.
Alfred Hitchcock: [to Steven Spielberg] Good evening, Steven. Welcome to Alfred Hitchcock Presents... your death.
Debbie Matenopoulos: You may be a reanimated corpse, Stacey, but you don't scare me! I've dealt with bigger stiffs than you!::Stacey Cornbread: Oh yeah? LIKE WHO?::Debbie Matenopoulos: Like Meredith Vieira, THAT'S WHO!