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Friday night marked the finale of Bill Maher’s 20th season of Real Time on HBO, and the host wrapped up by bringing on a special Friend.
Matthew Perry, best known as Chandler Bing from the hit sitcom Friends, is out on the talk show circuit to flog his book, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir, which is doing so well, it’s beating Bono’s Surrender in Ireland.
Bill Maher was impressed with that last fact, likening Perry to “the Taylor Swift of writing.” However, later, he compared Perry to being the Joe DiMaggio of drug abuse, as Perry frankly admits is true in his book, which holds nothing back about his debauchery with substances.
“A lot did have you in the dead pool,” Maher said, while noting that Perry looked “amazing,” sporting a great tan and seeming rested.
As he was throughout in his book, Perry was candid about his journey. He was placed on a hospital machine that’s usually used as a Hail Mary to keep someone alive, had his colon explode from opioid abuses, suffered impotence in high school, went to open houses for real estate and stole from people’s medicine cabinets. He struggled even as his TV show Friends was a massive hit and cultural landmark.
How did Perry make it out the other side? He kidded Maher about the host’s atheism, and admitted, “I believe there is a higher power,” adding he has “a very close relationship with him.”
Maher, speaking for many, said that “Everyone is on your side. Everyone is glad you’re here.”
The host later mused about how the human body is so resilient. Maher boasted that “I feel very luck that I can do drugs.”
Perry was quick with his jokey comeback. “You don’t have any on you, do you?”
Maher closed on an upbeat note, saying he believed Perry’s acting
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