Lisa Kudrow‘s son, Julian Stern, made his acting debut in The Comeback Season 3 on April 12, but it was far from his first time on that Warner Bros. lot. The Comeback was filmed on the same stage as Friends. Stern, 27, spent some time on the set of the iconic sitcom when he was a kid, when his mom would bring him to work (Kudrow’s pregnancy was also written into Phoebe’s plot). Stern tells TV Insider that while he doesn’t have many memories from that time (he was only a toddler back then), he does have one memory that he credits with giving him the performance bug.
Stern is the only child of Kudrow and her husband of over 30 years, Michel Stern. Stern’s onscreen acting debut was a scene with his mom in The Comeback Season 3 Episode 4. His character, Evan, is the tech guy for the controversial Al Assist writing tool. Valerie Cherish’s new sitcom, How’s That?!, is the first TV sitcom written by AI, but the AI of it all is a big secret (not a very well-kept one, as Valerie tells just about anyone who asks on set). In his first scene, Evan explained how the AI tool “hallucinated” a bad, nonsensical script for How’s That?! Episode 2.
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