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Comedy Writers Reflect on Character Departures
Actress Lisa Kudrow discusses the challenges of saying goodbye to her long-running character Valerie Cherish, while other comedy writers share their experiences with similar farewells.
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Saying goodbye is never easy, particularly if you’ve played a character for over 20 years, however intermittently. Lisa Kudrow knows this well, after her and Michael Patrick King, the co-creators of HBO’s The Comeback, said farewell to Valerie Cherish, a character that started at The Groundlings and
2026-08-21 21:32 UTC