Came here as soon as I had heard Matthew passed. One of the most impactful smaller roles in the entire series. What an astounding performance, and what a tragic loss.
Me too. First place I cam, he had so many great roles, but this is the one I wanted to see. Showed his great versatility. The world can be such a hard and dark place.
Have been trying to find a video clip from a scene in "Life on Mars" where Joe is listening in on CJ's phone conversation with Stu Winkle and is showing her the evidence he has uncovered on Hoynes. Absolutely chilling. Though he did not speak one word, his facial expression spoke volumes about what an amazing actor he was, and was well deserving of the Emmy nomination he received. This is just too tragic on all levels.
Matthew Perry is so much more than a comedy actor. I mean his comedy timing is perfect but he is also a damn brilliant dramatic actor. I was constantly amazed by performance on West Wing and Studio 60.
@@joemckim1183 Yes, Friends is very well written but it's often the way a line is delivered that makes it funny. If you pay attention you realise that there are quite often lines that are not funny by itself but the way they say them makes it hilarious. This is more difficult than people think and Perry is just awesome with this.
"I hate you and everything you stand for" "CJ you've only known me for like 4 minutes. It usually takes an hour for people to hate me and everything I stand for." "I'm the Press Secretary boo boo. I don't have that kind of time." Classic TV, brilliantly written and acted. God I miss this show.
Grace Skerp Indeed she is and this scene is just a brilliant portrayal of that. In all honesty CJ remains one of if not my total favourite female characters of any show.
Oh yeah, that is NOT where a motherboard belongs. :) I love Josh saying "Technically I outrank you" only to be told "SO FAR UP YOUR," well, you know the rest. :)
Always find it interesting that Quincy is taking the side of the issue that Bartlett took in Congress. In the flashback when Josh goes up to NH to watch Bartlett speak, Bartlett is talking about how he voted for a bill that helped bring milk prices down at the expense of farmers. That speech won Josh over.
I'm for years late, but as i see it, it is a strategy that works out politically well. The government is paying huge farm subsidies - and usually every Congressman is trying to geht the biggest chunk of the pork into his or her district. So you look the other way when food prices are going down, so that farmers can't live from that anymore and then get subsidies into your district to win over those voters for you. That is also the reason, blue dog democrats in rural districts were able to hold their seats for quite some time, even if in presidential elections, the districts voted Republican for decades already. Those Congressmen were usually quite senior and members of the committees important for agricultural business and fought for their people. The most recent example of a democrat like that is Colin Peterson from Minnesota, the Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee in the previous Congress. People were confronted with the choice to replace a guy that had a free reign of bringing subsidies into their district with a freshman republican who would be at the very bottom of the congressional food chain. In 2020, polarization and nationalization of those toss-up congressional races finally took Peterson down.
The problem with modern politics is that it's too much, too fast, and managed by so many people that nobody's really expected to maintain any kind of consistency; and that's all on top of the fact that everyone's thinking in 2-4 year cycles, and what came before and what might come after doesn't matter, so there's no way to maintain anything for any length of time, or even reflect on the idea that what worked for you to get elected isn't the same thing as what you're dealing with now.
I love watching Allison Janney in this clip after her amazing comedic acting in "Mom". She is so talented. The same could be said for Matthew Perry, but I remember how much I loved C. J. in this show.
This ep was one of the best. Watching Perry's character connect the dots on the VP's scandal was excellent. I agree they should have kept him. I mean, he's smart enough to crack the case of the scandalous VP, but not good enough to keep on staff? :-)
He was still on staff, just not used on screen except because he was also law clerk to the old Liberal Chief Justice. First time, when the Chief Justice wouldn’t retire, and the second time when they got him to retire when a Conservative Justice died, and they decided to get a female CJ and a conservative Associate Justice played by William Fitchner.
Ironically, in another episode during Barletts first run for the White House he talked about how he made the choice to screw over the farmers to make food more affordable for poor families and it was seen as the noble, compassionate thing.
I don't think CJ's complaint is that food is cheaper, it's that congress gutted the safety net for farmers and now that food is cheaper, the farmers can't afford to operate their farms. The new england dairy compact would have increased the price of milk, so it's not like the farmer was suddenly earning less, it's that the farmer was prevented from becoming richer due to rising food costs. There's a subtle yet important distinction between accepting naturally falling food costs and preventing an artificial increase in food costs.
"Well, this may sound silly, but the Science Editor from the Washington Post has a source, a blind source, who says the Vice-President personally told him - the blind source - that the Vice-President interfered to classify a report that a NASA commission, which he heads, has, saying there's life on Mars." This is an impressive piece of dialogue.
I loved the west wing and it was even better with MP appearance! Great choice wish he had stayed with us longer. HE was nominated for an emmy for THIS ROLE. Well deserved!
@@scotthartman8993 only one White House counsel was in more than one episode. Lionel Tribbe was a one-off. He was quickly replaced with Babish, who appeared later in season 2, parts of season 3, and then again in season 7.
No one has an answer for the dilemma of (a) lower prices for consumers, and (b) lower revenues for producers. That problem is baked in the cake. So I'm not rooting for either side in this argument between Joe Quincy and CJ Cregg. But I do admire how Joe Quincy held his own when hazed by Josh Lyman and CJ. He was a smart, poised character. Like everyone else, I wish he'd been made a permanent part of the cast.
I didn’t know he was on this show, after Michael Keaton and Robin Williams, I don’t get nervous over the idea of a having a comedic actor play a dramatic character and RIP Matthew Perry.
@ac9milan which ones are you refering to? I noticed the "it usually takes people the better part of an hour to hate me and everything I stand for" which is a rewrite of a line from A Few Good Men between Tom Cruice and Demi More
"It usually takes people the better part of an hour to hate me and everything I stand for." "I'm the press secretary Boo Boo. I don't have that kind of time." LOL
@Kasino80 yeah he was also nominated for best guest srar in a drama series twice for this role, all the more reason. But i guess he was still working on Friends.
The Bartlet Administration also had a habit of putting their known to be "Republicans" bright minds thst Jed Bartlet wants to hear from i.e. Ainsley Hayes and Joe Quincy, in basement offices. ****spoiler*** Life on Mars episode took an interesting turn via Quincy probing this blind source story for C J Cregg.
@Hard Boiled Entertainment: by the fifth season Sorkin wasn't on the show. Personally I think Joe would've been as good as Mulready if Sorkin was still writing the script for the 5th season and beyond.
Think they didn't keep him because the character's a Conservative who's 1) articulate enough to reduce CJ to snarky straw-man replies (which Sorkin PROBABLY thought were legit rebuttals), 2) witty and snarky himself, in his responses to said replies, and 3) just plain cool as heck? You know...the Alex P. Keaton effect. And Sorkin couldn't have that for too long...now, could he?
Yeah that is absolutely not the reason but would you expect anything else than edge and idiocy from someone like him? Also he didnt even understand CJ as she was being sarcastic in her replies so thats the level of smart he has.
Hard Boiled Entertainment They didn’t keep him, because it’s Matthew Fricking Perry, and he costs a gazillion dollars an episode. He was brought in for a very specific story arc, and then disappeared back into Ainsley’s old office.
And when those farmers go broke.. can't make money.. their land becomes bought out by banks who sell to Monsanto... and your food at the grocery store, you won't be able to tell what it is.. :)
I'd like to reference Boston Legal: "We lawyers are paid by our clients by the hour, so it is our moral obligation to make the most of the time they are paying us for - by speaking fast."
I know this is Hollywood. It made my teeth grind when I heard this. My experience is that people who claim all sorts of self-righteous superiority over others such as "I hate you and everything you stand for," often end up in real trouble because that superiority is imagined. I looked at this and I thought immediately of the press conference disaster from Josh Lyman, proclaiming his degrees from Yale and Harvard rendered him invincible to the White House Press Corps. I missed watching this show because the situations seemed relevant. Snide, rude, arrogant remarks like this seem worthy more of a junior high school in Topeka than they do from the White House.
This video perfectly expresses Democrats. They don't know why or any specifics, but they will hate any conservative without reason. So, ask yourself: Which party is full of prejudicial people?
