All anyone has been talking about for days is the end of ‘Friends.’ Now this is a television show I never watched. I’ve never been able to understand the fascination with six white people with a big apartment who never seem to work.

I think once, one of my in-laws (who were hooked to the show) talked about how it seemed so realistic. For whom?

I’ll admit that I did watch one episode, last season I think, with Aisha Tyler — ’cause I’d heard through the grapevine that there was (at least temporarily) a ‘black’ friend.

Not watching the show, I don’t have much more to say on the subject. So, I’ll paraphrase a joke from the Real Time with Bill Maher filming I attended. He was discussing — Ross Perot style, with visual aids — how George Bush was raising money from some of the whitest organizations in America. Ad the end of the joke, he remarked that next thing you know, he’d be raising money from the cast of ‘Friends.’

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