Maggie Wheeler blames Matthew Perry for Janice Hosenstein's signature laugh.

Maggie Wheeler

Maggie Wheeler

The 55-year-old actress played Matthew's character Chandler Bing's on/off girlfriend on the sitcom for 10 years and reveled she came up with the famous laugh because of Matthew.

She explained on ITV's 'This Morning': "It was this progression of how Janice evolved and how the writers created the character for me. The laugh just happened organically.

"Working with Matthew, I knew right away, I thought, 'This guy's gonna make me laugh on set, I've gotta be prepared. What am I going to do?' So I created Janice's laugh just as a safety measure for when Matthew made me laugh.

And Maggie says working on the show was one of the best experiences of her life.

She said: "It was always a surprise that she continued to have a life on the show. I was always so thrilled every time the writers decided to bring me back. It started out as a one-shot deal come in, do one episode and out of that came 10 years of this extraordinary, joyful experience."


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