Paul Rudd boasts a pretty impressive resume, as he’s been part of some of the best movies of ‘90s and the 2000s, but one of his most notable TV roles has got to be Mike Hannigan on Friends. The actor has said that he felt so “strange” being included in the series finale that he cracked a bad joke that upset the cast. However, after hearing the full story, I’m surprised he wasn’t fired on his first day on set.
Friends fans were introduced to Mike Hannigan — the fan-favorite side character who would eventually marry Lisa Kudrow’s Phoebe — in Season 9, and over the course of the final two seasons, Paul Rudd reprised the role in 16 episodes. That includes the Season 10 series finale, “The Last One,” and the actor later told The Graham Norton Show it “made no sense to me whatsoever” that he was included. Feeling like a bit of a seventh wheel, Rudd said he decided to make a joke out of it. In his words:
