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Saturday, 8 November 2008

Lisa Kudrow will be for you in a Web-only comedy series


Lisa Kudrow will be for you in a Web-only comedy series


LOS ANGELES — Lisa Kudrow just got shrink-wrapped.


The actress, 45, plays an obtuse, incompetent and confrontational therapist in Web Therapy, an online series that premiered this month on Lstudio.com, a new broadband channel developed by automaker Lexus.

Kudrow developed the series with her longtime producing partner, Dan Bucatinsky. Each episode lasts about three minutes, and the dialogue is improvised. Fifteen episodes have been shot and are posted periodically.

"I thought it was the worst idea in the world to do therapy with webcams for only three minutes," she says. "It's supposed to be a safe environment. You have 50 minutes to unload. I think the Internet is sort of a scary place where people like her can put up a shingle and say, 'I provide this service,' and you have no idea if they're for real or not."

Kudrow's Fiona Wallice could be your worst nightmare, from her grating way of speaking to her aggressive lines of questioning.
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"The voice — I was trying to approximate someone I know who's very intelligent. I wanted Fiona to be the kind of idiot who has such a clear agenda that she thinks everyone can see. She thinks she seems authentic and real. She thinks she's helping people."

Fiona has shades of Valerie Cherish, the neurotic, delusional has-been actress Kudrow played on the short-lived but loved 2005 HBO series The Comeback.

"Someone was saying this feels like The Comeback to them. It's not as brutal, I don't think, but there's a dark person at its center."

So, now that she has her own online show, how Web-savvy is Kudrow ?

"Not very. Probably a little better than some. I can barely work the L Studio site. Someone sends me a link, and I go, and I don't pay attention to where I've been. Is that bad? Is that how a lot of people do it? YouTube — you can spend too many hours on that. I download books on tape. I'd love to know, besides iTunes, what else is there."

Next up for Kudrow is the family comedy Hotel for Dogs, starring Emma Roberts. It arrives in January.

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