It makes perfect sense that all of Matthew Perry’s obituaries primarily focused on Friends. After all, not only was Friends one of the biggest, and best-enduring, sitcoms of all time, but Perry was its most distinctive star. You can quite easily draw a line separating the cadences of mainstream comic performances before and after Chandler Bing.
However, despite this and his other standout screen work – if there was ever time for a cultural reappraisal of his wonderful short-lived 2011 sitcom Mr Sunshine, this has to be it – the last 24 hours have seen a groundswell of recognition for Perry’s other accomplishments. A tract of text has been shared and reshared across the internet countless times, in which he details how he would like to be remembered after his death.
