our first guest stars as Chandler on the program Friends which is currently the
number one show on television that's right ladies and Gentlemen please welcome Matthew
Perry there you go how you doing I'm doing fine this is introduce you Pam coock she's
from Oklahoma they're in town visiting she and her husband her husband's an attorney that's
wonderful nice to have you here thank you I'm glad to be here like I'm the host how you doing
how's the summer going so far the Summer's going great The Summer's going great I mean you know
we've talked about you've talked about how hot it is here you do anything to handle the heat
what did you do well there wasn't much to do you know I mean as you know the uh Museum of
inflatable women was closed so can't sneak in there you can't go there and uh I basically
just spent uh this weekend just sitting in my hotel room watching reruns the loveboat ah you
can do a lot worse I know I know and uh I don't know if you're familiar I saw my favorite one
though which is kind of exciting and I'll I'll talk you guys through it but Pam you're with me
I'm with you uh it's the one where a couple yeah they're in love right and they they go on to the
boat
and they've seen it guys have obviously seen this one they go out on onto the boat and uh
they're in love and about halfway through the show they have some kind of problem a mixup maybe a
understanding a tiff a tiff if you will some kind of squabble and uh about 15 minutes later so at
this point I'm very concerned about these people yeah and uh about 15 minutes later I believe on
the fiesta deck uh Merl stubing talks them through it Captain stubing sure Captain stubing helps them
solve the problem and uh by the time they get off the boat they're in love again there you
go I've said this once before my favorite alltime episode of
the loveboat maybe you remember this if you know anything about
the show at all Pam perhaps you saw this one yourself Tony Danza plays a Japanese
guy he's Japanese his parents his mom and dad are from Japan Tony Danza and he's taking The
Love Boat to Tokyo to visit the ancestral home of his parents it's it's very very stirring not
to say a little peculiar was uh gopher able to help him out at all I don't know I don't
know what happened exactly uh congratulations on the big hit this is is this your first huge
television hit uh yes definitely this is the first show that uh has been watched by anybody
other than F immediate family members and uh I was on a show actually because the show's been
number one and I was on a show that was number 100 wow for a while and uh what was that that
show that was called it was called second chance and uh well I'm amazed you guys haven't I'm and
to show you how naive I was back then uh it got canceled and I couldn't believe it just shed you
wrote some letters trying to get it back on the air I did I did I think she wrote some episodes
um well and so now you're completely the other end of the spectrum and it must be very very
very gratifying yes and you're from Canada I understand born in what part of Canada I was
born in uh well I wasn't born in Canada I was born in Williamstown Massachusetts and then
when I was Hey and then uh when I was about uh 3 months old I decided I'd seen enough and uh
and moved to Canada so are but you're you're not Canadian then are you well I'm one of those guys
that actually has Duo yeah so but you voted the United States you don't participate in anything
do you pay taxes in Canada no all right good for you but and also you were a national ranked
tennis player in Canada Yes actually that was we'll pursue that in a second we'll in a Pam do
you have any questions Pam is the monkey going to be back next year the monkey uh that's the
first time I've ever been asked that the uh the the monkey I think will probably make an
appearance back but uh we're not sure as of yet he's he's in he's in contractual stuff
he wants to direct and you're talking about something on the show Pam is that what this
is and uh Cindy loer and the woman to the right of Matthew Perry is Pam Cox our co-host this
evening from Oklahoma are you enjoying yourself Pam I am and you and Matthew getting along all
right yes we are that's I noticed that you asked him for his autograph yeah that's
nice and and you're wearing some of Paul's clothing so you don't really need his autograph
and so you're pretty well set for the evening uh now Matthew tell us about your tennis career
in Canada well I was a uh nationally ranked tennis player in Canada uh as a junior and
that's primarily why I moved down to Los Angeles was because to pursue your tennis you were just
that good then well uh I thought so yeah and uh I quickly realized that being a nationally
ranked tennis player in Canada is much like being a really really good hockey player in Burbank it
doesn't mean much in the real world yeah so I uh I went down there and my whole family came out
to watch the first kind of tennis match kind of support sure absolutely just yeah and uh and to
see you know what I've decided to do for my career and I got killed just got kicked my butt this guy
my whole family kind of put their head down and they were hoping that I would have some kind of
other career choice and uh it would have been a great story if this guy had gone on to become
like Pete SAS or Boris Becker or something but uh the man that killed me was a VOD a Vota the
actor know I had no idea he played tennis no and the the worst thing about it was there was
a huge rumor as he was beating me that he was dead yeah no the last I heard Abe is alive and
well I don't know if he ever did well but he's alive at any rate oh he did well in the courts
uh and you seeing your family uh while you're here in New York City at all uh well I got to
see my grandfather in Williamstown uh and I had a interesting thing happened because there's not
a whole lot of stuff to do in Williamstown so uh he was a big track guy he loved running track in
the 20 and so we decided I decided to let's rent a movie one night and let's rent Chariots of Fire
yeah perfect exactly he's got to love it he's got to love it and you know it's about uh track
people in Britain and it'll be perfect a lot of scenes of guys running and stuff absolutely yeah
inspirational music yes inspirational music exactly me and my grandfather Al and uh he
the movie ended and he turned it off and he said Matthew I just hated this movie really hated it
and I said how could you how could you hate the movie everybody Lov this movie and he said well
I just didn't buy the way they were speaking and I said well what do you mean and he said
uh basically what happens is he has a very firm belief that every single British person is making
up that accent ah doesn't doesn't believe it at all no he he some kind of trick exactly he truly
believes that they all got together years ago in an effort to try to impress people
huh to speak this way something they decided on After the Revolution kind of just to get
under our skin for the rest of our days on this planet this is what Al Perry believes well he's
a very disturbed Man U are you are you back at work now um well yeah we we start we start
work in about uh in about a month and right now I'm writing a uh I'm writing this movie with a
buddy of mine that uh we're pretty psyched about because we got a great idea for it and uh it's a
it's well it's it's about this guy was a young guy who would be played by me sure and uh he
meets this girl who uh Falls immediately head over heels in love with him how could she not
exactly and uh that girl would be played by Sandra bulock wow this is great this could
be a blockbuster right here I think so and uh well that's all I have so
far it sounds like money in the B thank you nice to meet you congratulations on
the success of friends Matthew Perry ladies [Applause] [Music] gentlemen