Jennifer Aniston AKA Rachel Green doesn’t think Friends would work in today’s world, given how readily-offended Gen Z is.

Aniston said in an interview with the international AFP News Agency when promoting ‘Murder Mystery 2’:

“There’s a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of ‘Friends’ and find them offensive.

There were things that were never intentional and others…well, we should have thought it through, but I don’t think there was a sensitivity like there is now.”

Can’t argue with that really. Even Friends creator Marta Kauffman recently said she was “embarrassed” by the show’s lack of diversity and bitterly regrets the fact they used the wrong pronouns for Chandler’s transgender parent.

Aniston continued:

“Comedy has evolved, movies have evolved. Now it’s a little tricky because you have to be very careful, which makes it really hard for comedians, because the beauty of comedy is that we make fun of ourselves, make fun of life.

You could joke about a bigot and have a laugh. That was hysterical. And it was about educating people on how ridiculous people were, and now we’re not allowed to do that.

Everybody needs funny! The world needs humour! We can’t take ourselves too seriously. Especially in the United States. Everyone is far too divided.”

Well said, Jen. Well said indeed! The maddest part about it is that Friends wasn’t even that offensive. In fact I think it was one of the most inoffensive shows on television?

I mean, it’s been a while since I saw a full episode but the only thing I can imagine people taking issue with is Joey being a bit of a player or Ross being a dxck to Marcel the monkey, but even that would take some effort to be offended by.

Fair play to Jennifer Aniston for telling it like it is, in any case. Meanwhile, David Schwimmer has the perfect solution. Problem solved?