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He also proposed some possible reboot ideas.

"Maybe there should be an all-black Friends or an all-Asian Friends," Schwimmer told the Guardian. "But I was well aware of the lack of diversity and I campaigned for years to have Ross date women of color. One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian American woman, and later I dated African American women. That was a very conscious push on my part."

David Schwimmer Proposes 'All-Black' or 'All-Asian' Reboot of 'Friends'

Or we could just let 'Friends' die over on HBO Max.

www.complex.com

BONUS LINK

David Schwimmer: 'I’m very aware of my privilege as a heterosexual white male'

The actor and director on divorce, fatherhood, controversy – and whether he will ever return to Ross Geller

www.theguardian.com

 

[M1chl]

What would those poor Black and Asian people do without white guy talking for them.

 

[Master Of Illusion]

So it'd either take place in a rent-controlled apartment above a bodega or a hole-in-the-wall attached to a Korean bank?

Got it.

 

[ManaByte]

I take it David Schwimmer never watched FOX in the 90s?

 

[buizel]

what would an all-black Friends reboot be called Ross? HMM? HMMMMMMMM???

can you imagine an all-asian reboot? wouldnt last 1 season if they all kept comitting suicide for being disrespectful to each other

 

[ManaByte]

what would an all-black Friends reboot be called Ross? HMM? HMMMMMMMM???

can you imagine an all-asian reboot? wouldnt last 1 season if they all kept comitting suicide for being disrespectful to each other

"Ross has black Friends"

 

[TGO]

One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian American woman, and later I dated African American women. That was a very conscious push on my part."

Sounds pretty diverse to me

 

[triplestation]

dont need no reboot

you got big bang theory fuckin parks and recreation

now you got whats that fuckin show with kumar, sunnyside?

you got fresh off the boat

i think ross was the only funny one on friends, matthew perry was some forced shit

 

[*Nightwing]

So, take the premise of 6 white CIS friends daily enjoyment of white privilege, and recast it with the minorities whose very own oppression is due to the white CIS privilege these very same 6 friends enjoy on the daily(or weekly rather) based on his very own reasoning for coming up with this contradictory idea?

what would an all-black Friends reboot be called Ross? HMM? HMMMMMMMM???

can you imagine an all-asian reboot? wouldnt last 1 season if they all kept comitting suicide for being disrespectful to each other

it would be called "Contradictory Ideas" or "The Oxymoron Pals"

I guess they skipped the episode called "The one where Ross tries to have it both ways and learns a valuable lesson" on the original show
/s

 

[buizel]

i really like season 1 friends aesthetic

dont need no reboot

you got big bang theory fuckin parks and recreation

now you got whats that fuckin show with kumar, sunnyside?

you got fresh off the boat

i think ross was the only funny one on friends, matthew perry was some forced shit

big bang theory.. fucking lol, honestly watch big bang theory then friends and there is so much more effort and good writing and whatever in FRIENDS. its like a whole other show (not saying friends is a masterpiece but its a whole different ball park than BBT's hilarious 'jokes'

)

 

[triplestation]

fuck all these shows tbh

watch the sopranos

 

[triplestation]

everybody loves raymond

now there's a fuckin sitcom right there

that shit will superglue your ass to the couch

 

[zeorhymer]

I'd love a reboot of any of these.

 

[haxan7]

David Shitter crapping words out of his mouth for attention.

 

[Son Tofu]

I'd love a reboot of any of these.

Signaling virtue is much more important than reality. Didn't you know?

 

[zeorhymer]

Signaling virtue is much more important than reality. Didn't you know?

*gasp* But he seems to be such a wholesome stand up Hollywood guy!

 

[brap]

if an all black friends reboot is like this ill watch it

 

[#Phonepunk#]

so is this going to be about a bunch of unemployed black people who live in amazing huge apartments in NYC? don't they already have plenty other shows like that?

this whole thing sounds like a desperate plea for relevance from the worst character in Friends. which is, like, already a pretty low bar, lol.

 

[NeoGiffer]

 

[pennythoughts]

"Maybe there should be an all-black Friends or an all-Asian Friends," Schwimmer told the Guardian. "But I was well aware of the lack of diversity and I campaigned for years to have Ross date women of color. One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian American woman, and later I dated African American women. That was a very conscious push on my part."

I see white, black and asian. just needs a latino and we got the 4 elements of american diversity covered.

 

[ExpandKong]

"But I was well aware of the lack of diversity and I campaigned for years to have Ross date women of color. One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian American woman, and later I dated African American women. That was a very conscious push on my part."

I can 100% see David Schwimmer thinking “Hmm I can finally kiss a real life Asian waifu if SHE’S FORCED TO DO IT FOR MONEY ON TELEVISION!” Because Ross is the worst Friend and I can only imagine David Schwimmer is too.

What about half black half Asian Friends, Ross? Is society ready for that, or does it beggar belief? How about two separate shows and they do a crossover event in season two, Ross? Will there be a Pakistani Friends someday? Will they learn to get along with Indian Friends?

 

[Calcium]

So his proposal here is to take a show without diversity and make it all-black or all-asian. Seems like he'd have the same problem.

 

[SpartanN92]

Isn’t that called a Gang when a group of 3+ racial minorities gather together?

 

[Kreen101]

David Schwimmer Proposes 'All-Black' or 'All-Asian' Reboot of 'Friends'

Or we could just let 'Friends' die over on HBO Max.

www.complex.com

BONUS LINK

David Schwimmer: 'I’m very aware of my privilege as a heterosexual white male'

The actor and director on divorce, fatherhood, controversy – and whether he will ever return to Ross Geller

www.theguardian.com

Funny how Schwimmer eventually married a fellow Jew though. Why not practice what he preached?

 

[Kenpachii]

Racisme is only good when we do it !

Anyway it seems like he had a not so pure opinion and was actually a bit critical against the new woke nazi clubs and started to drop the black / asian cast in order to recoup his blunder.

That's what i get out of it.

"I feel that a lot of the problem today in so many areas is that so little is taken in context," Schwimmer, who called the show "groundbreaking in its time," said. "You have to look at it from the point of view of what the show was trying to do at the time. I'm the first person to say that maybe something was inappropriate or insensitive, but I feel like my barometer was pretty good at that time. I was already really attuned to social issues and issues of equality."

He also proposed some possible reboot ideas.

"Maybe there should be an all-black Friends or an all-Asian Friends," Schwimmer told the Guardian. "But I was well aware of the lack of diversity and I campaigned for years to have Ross date women of color. One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian American woman, and later I dated African American women. That was a very conscious push on my part."

 

[Birdo]

Wouldn't an all-black/asian a sitcom actually look less diverse? Since they both all have the same hair and eye colour.

 

[O-N-E]

Wouldn't an all-black/asian a sitcom actually look less diverse? Since they both all have the same hair and eye colour.

Yeah, it still wouldn't be diverse, but I wouldn't care.

They can do that. Just don't pretend it's because of diversity.

 

[-Troid-]

What's the point of remaking a sitcom anyways? It's not like it's something that could benefit from better special effects or anything. Plus there's been a bunch of different sitcoms thoughout the last several decades with different ethnicities of people. You don't have to make a "Friends" with black/asian people. Just make a sitcom about a bunch of black/asian people who are friends and call it something else. A sitcom is just supposed to be about real life; you can't remake real life.

 

[Azzurri]

SO would an all black cast be called "Hommies"

 

[Lionel Richie]

The jokes write themselves and they're all funnier than anything on Friends.

 

[brap]

 

[Son Tofu]

Hey, remember when we used to live in a society that used facts and stuff? I do. I also remember a TV show called Martin that ran against Friends for a couple of seasons.

Martin WAS the black version of Friends.

 

[appaws]

SO would an all black cast be called "Hommies"

This cracked me up. "Hommies."

 

[cryptoadam]

So a show with the Asian version of Monica, Phoebe, and Rachel?

Yes please.

 

[Richard Packer]

Hopefully it's true to the source material and their Monica is obsessed with taking it up the ass.

 

[Reptars Revenge]

He does know about living single right that show that came out before friends. Remake that lol

Six black 20-somethings -- four women and two men -- share their lives and loves in a Brooklyn brownstone. A trio of women share one of the apartments, receiving frequent visits from a fourth pal; meanwhile, two men who've been friends for years share an apartment one floor up

 

[The Pleasure]

I don't want to see Asian guys hanging out playing starcraft all day.

 

[SentientStone]

Instead of segregating they should now make one 'ultimate friends' with all the different groups friending each other among different divisions of friendom to see who is the friendest of all the friends. Friends. Happy friends.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

what would an all-black Friends reboot be called Ross? HMM? HMMMMMMMM???

Living Single

This is a stupidly idiotic idea. If anything they would try an all-LGBT Friends to "make up" for the supercuts on Youtube throwing all the gay jokes into hour-long videos.

I'd love a reboot of any of these.

Nah they'd just mess all three of them up. Lose the '90s charm and inject current-day political nonsense into them. Like the upcoming Saved by the Bell thingie.

 

[Son Tofu]

He does know about living single right that show that came out before friends. Remake that lol

Six black 20-somethings -- four women and two men -- share their lives and loves in a Brooklyn brownstone. A trio of women share one of the apartments, receiving frequent visits from a fourth pal; meanwhile, two men who've been friends for years share an apartment one floor up

That's even better than my example.

 

[HoodWinked]

just posting a picture cause not sure its widely known how similar the concept for living single (1993) was to friends (1994). One takes place in Brooklyn the other in Manhattan.

 

[Romulus]

Homeboy tryin' get invited to bbq

 

[Grinchy]

This is a great idea. I'd love to watch it die in the ratings and have white males be blamed for not watching in great enough numbers.

 

[captainraincoat]

Most successful all black sitcom was probably the Cosby show....why don't they remake that???

 

[Elektro Demon]

I propose we ban David Schwimmer from this continent.
I think my suggestion is better then his.

 

[DeafTourette]

I take it David Schwimmer never watched FOX in the 90s?

EXACTLY! Living Single was Friends before Friends was Friends! That show was great!

Successful black friends navigating love, relationships and the ups and downs of living in NYC ... It was a hoot! That show and others like them ( all black ) don't get the recognition they deserve.

 

[DeafTourette]

Wouldn't an all-black/asian a sitcom actually look less diverse? Since they both all have the same hair and eye colour.

Black people are a bit more diverse than that. Dude... We all have different shades, hair colors, hair styles (even within the same gender), eye colors and so much more. You have black geeks ON THIS BOARD who aren't superstar athletes or sing a tune whatsoever.

 

[Bullet Club]

An all-dwarf version of Friends would be better.

 

[Rentahamster]

It was called Living Single, and it was great

 

[Stiflers Mom]

An all-dwarf version of Friends would be better.

Finally some diverse representation of my group.