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...Taxi's] Tony Banta is a bit like Joey Tribbiani. What would he say to Joey...
Deftly written, Joey sets up running gags and delayed payoffs with the precision of the special forces laying mines, much as Friends did. No, exactly as Friends did, and that's a problem. It reminds us that five-sixths of the Dream Team is missing. And where Joey does change, it's abruptly and implausibly. When he was funny on Friends, it was usually unintentionally. He still is, but when the writers need someone to deliver a Chandler-style zinger, they just lend Joey 50 IQ points for five seconds. When Gina, visiting Joey's TV taping, is mistaken...
That's a funny line--but not for our Joey. And Joey's pilot is funny, but it is also sad, like a high school Mr. Popularity continuing to go to homecoming after he has graduated. "Change can be good," Joey says about his relocation. True, and his show needs more of it if it wants to become comfort food and not just leftovers...
Given the two roles she has assayed on TV--the streetwise naif Adriana on The Sopranos and the tough-tawking Gina, the hairdresser sister of Matt LeBlanc's character on Joey--Drea de Matteo in person is shocking. No cleavage-baring tank top, no 2-in. fingernails, no gum cracking...
Unlike the achingly fatherless Adriana, de Matteo has close family ties. Her dad is a successful furniture-store owner, her mother a playwright. Raised in Manhattan, de Matteo attended tony private schools on the Upper East Side. Before Joey started, her parents, her boyfriend and she trekked west together in a 30ft. camper. And she is keeping her New York City place, just in case. If only Adriana had been that careful...