May 5, 2008 | Posted at 11:30 AM

Who's That with Ellen?

Answer: Lisa Kudrow.

John Lovitz convinced Lisa to audition for the improvisational theater group, The Groundlings. While taking classes there, she became close friends with fellow classmate Conan O’Brien

Lisa played “Emily,” an actress who had to do a love scene with Woody for the play “Our Town.”

Lisa was originally cast for the role of Roz Doyle on "Frasier," but both parties decided it would be better to recast the role, however, one of the people working on “Frasier” also worked on “Friends” and suggested Lisa audition for the show. The rest is television history.

Prior to their success on "Friends," both Lisa and Jennifer Aniston auditioned to be regular cast members on "Saturday Night Live," but the show chose Julia Sweeney.

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I Love Lisa and she is so amazing in friends! But I like Jennifer Aniston the most .. so when can we se her again on the ellen show ? I'm sorry if a spelled som word wrong , but it becaseu I'm just 12 nearly 13 and I live in sweden. I love your show ellen your so good!

hej då , it means bye on swedish

Posted by Hanna | May 10, 2008 12:30 PM

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Can you tell me who is on the show May 20th?

Posted by Robbin Joffred | May 6, 2008 7:58 AM

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I am there, Gerrie, where you wanted me to be.

Posted by C | May 5, 2008 3:10 PM

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I mean I can talk for hours about strawberry,s because I love them please go to the place C

Posted by gerrie van rooij | May 5, 2008 2:40 PM

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But what do you mean, Gerrie?

Posted by Conny | May 5, 2008 2:29 PM

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Conny I,am happy that you say that I have it right don,t you think that we can discussed for hours maybe about strawberry,s also very interesting

Posted by gerrie van rooij | May 5, 2008 1:08 PM

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How comes you know that, Gerrie? I think it depends on the view on her. Concerning the original: Her smile is nicer, her humour is bigger, her phantasie amazing (do you know that she loves to talk about things like: "How long last a menstrution of a drosophila (May-fly)? Seconds, milliseconds, we discussed for hours." Okay, you are right.

Posted by Conny | May 5, 2008 12:38 PM

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I thinkof Lisa every time I hear the song "Stinky Cat."

Posted by Karen Murray | May 5, 2008 12:15 PM

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I know someone who have almost the same name and sorry that I must say this but the one who I know is much much more beautiful

Posted by gerrie van rooij | May 5, 2008 12:07 PM

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I have heard of her, she is whacky..actually you remind me of her abit!! Mind you if she was a bit younger and you two were seen walking down the street, folks would think that you Ellen would be her mother!! have a bountyful day..she is a great singer by the way.

Posted by Donald Duck | May 5, 2008 11:55 AM

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I love Lisa Kudrow! She was awesome as Pheebs...sigh! I miss the Friends!

Posted by Anonymous | May 5, 2008 11:53 AM

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