View Full Version : Lisa Kudrow Revisits 'Smelly Cat'


Brian Damage
09-30-2009, 09:18 PM
Whenever Bruce Springsteen does a concert, people beg him to play "Born in the USA." For Billy Joel, it's "Piano Man." Paul McCartney always receives requests for "Yesterday."

Lisa Kudrow?

She gets "Smelly Cat."

At the Rock a Little Feed a Lot benefit concert for Feeding America, the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief charity, at Club Nokia in Los Angeles Tuesday night, Kudrow, 46, took to the stage with longtime pal and onetime costar Courteney Cox Arquette to introduce singer Sheryl Crow – only to find herself with a guitar thrust upon her and the crowd chanting for her to play the magnum opus of Phoebe Buffay, the ditzy musician she played on Friends.

"Play 'Smelly Cat!' " an audience member called out, after Kudrow and Cox Arquette were pressed into a question-and-answer session while Crow and her bandmates set up backstage.

Kudrow looked to her friend for help, but Cox Arquette gleefully threw her pal under the Benefit bus, calling out to the stagehands: "Get her a guitar, people!"

After being fitted with an acoustic guitar, the momentarily bewildered actress warily asked, "Is this a set up?" before summoning her inner Phoebe and serenading the audience with her ballad about an odiferous feline.

"Smelly cat, smelly cat, what are they feeding you?" she sang.

And the crowd leapt to its feet.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20309164,00.html

Smartboy
09-30-2009, 10:28 PM
While we are on the topic of Lisa Kudrow, I would like to mention two controdicting things that I have read about her. One thing that went with her flower child image on this show was the fact that she was a strict vegetarian. However, I remember reading an article in a magazine about her honeymoon in which she and her groom feisted on sirloin steak. I remember thinking of this as being a big difference between her character and the real person that she is. Just think of the difference between Robert Reed and his alter ego Mike Brady to get an idea as to what I am talking about! Well, quite recently, I looked up one of her sites on the Internet and it said in the trivia section that she is a vegetarian. This leads me to two possible conclusions. Either she changed schools of thought in between the time that those two documents were written or one of the authors made a mistake. Any knowledge anyone?