Matt LeBlanc
Whenever I think of Matt LeBlanc, I think of the following statement: JOEY DOESN’T SHARE FOOD! Hahahaha! I love the TV show Friends. I watch it at least twice a day. It is so awesome. There isn’t a bad character on that show. Phoebe always makes me laugh with her songs, I love Chandler’s sarcasm, Monica reminds me of myself, Rachel reminds me of who I wanted to be, and Ross is outright hilarious. What can I even say about Joey Tribbiani? “Grandma’s chicken salad.”
Matthew Steven LeBlanc was born on July 25, 1967 in Newton, Massachusetts. He graduated from high school in 1985 and started auditioning for acting gigs shortly after. He appeared in many commercials before landing his first TV series in 1988. TV 101 lasted only one season, but hey….it was a gig. Matt appeared in some music videos after that. He was in a Jon Bon Jovi video, an Alanis Morissette video, a Bob Seger video, and one for Tom Petty. Matt got another series called Top of the Heap which was a spin-off of Married with Children, but that only lasted seven episodes. He kept doing other crappy acting gigs until he hit it big with Friends in 1994. Yay Friends!
Matt/Joey Trivia
- The writers of Friends didn’t originally intend for Joey to be dim, but LeBlanc put a different spin on things when he auditioned. I can’t imagine Joey not being dim. How boring would that be?
- “How you doin’?” was ranked number four in TV Guide’s list of TV’s 20 Top Catchphrases.
- LeBlanc was married to Missy McKnight from 2003-2006.
- Has a daughter with his ex-wife Missy.
- When he auditioned for the role of Friends, he only had $11 to his name.
- Had a crush on Rachel on the show and on Jennifer Aniston in real life.
- Was named one of the 50 most beautiful people in 2000 by People magazine.
- His role as Major Don West in Lost in Space was originally offered to Matthew Perry.
- Was a model before he started acting.
- Is the only cast of Friends to not have hosted Saturday Night Live.
- Is a trained carpenter.
- Attended the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston for a second.
- Joseph Francis Tribbiani Jr. was his full name on Friends.
- On the set of Friends, he was known by LeBlanc by the cast and crew so as not to be confused with Matthew Perry.
Friends ended in 2004 and LeBlanc pretty much immediately began the spinoff show Joey. That show lasted two years. I watched it and thought it was okay. It had the pot head guy from Road Trip in there. (That’s one of my favorite movies, BTW.)
After Joey came a show called Episodes where LeBlanc played himself. Episodes ran from 2011-2017. Since 2016, LeBlanc has been portraying Adam Burns in the hit sitcom Man with a Plan. What do you think? Has he been the most successful star to come from Friends? I know some would say Jennifer Aniston because she’s been in some movies, but my money is on LeBlanc.
Thank you for reading my Matt LeBlanc blog. I leave you with a Joey Tribbiani quote:
In my spare time, I, uh, read to the blind. And I’m also a mento for kids.