How long did joey last

Top cast Edit. Ben Falcone Howard as Howard. Miguel A. Zach as Zach. Adam Goldberg Jimmy as Jimmy. Alex Ball Todd as Todd ….

Tommy Perna Courier as Courier …. Gregory Harrison Dean as Dean. Simon Helberg Seth as Seth. Richard Ruccolo Glen as Glen. Danneel Ackles London as London …. Shana Goldberg-Meehan Scott Silveri. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. After his friends all go their separate ways, Joey Tribianni leaves New York for Hollywood to pursue his acting career full time. His sister Gina buys him a nice apartment, and he finds a new roommate in his year old nephew Michael Gina had him when she was 16 , who is literally a rocket scientist.

Michael's book smarts and Joey's people smarts allow them to help each other out whenever they can, and make them nice companions. Phoebe also tries to teach him how to speak French, as he has claimed to be fluent in the language. Much to Phoebe's annoyance, Joey has no aptitude for foreign language and speaks gibberish. When they realize that the group may have to split up because Emily has forbidden Ross from being friends with Rachel, Phoebe and Rachel conspire to form a separate group by themselves.

Phoebe insists that Joey come to their new group. Her loyalty is proven again when she states that she could live in Las Vegas, since it has everything she needs, "Including Joey! Phoebe once said to her friends, "When the Revolution comes, I'll have to kill you all. For a time, Phoebe seems to have a crush on Joey. She becomes jealous of his relationship with her twin sister, Ursula, especially when Joey sleeps with Ursula instead of choosing to attend Phoebe's surprise birthday party.

Phoebe and Joey's relationship never progresses beyond a few kisses. When Phoebe realizes that she is 31 and not 30, she laments all the things she has failed to do before turning 31 - including having the perfect kiss and meeting Portuguese people.

To make her feel better, Joey gives her a kiss and says, "Plus, I'm one-sixteenth Portuguese. He has also stated that Phoebe is his "number one girl", and went as far as not eating meat for several months when she was pregnant and felt desire for it, just so, in his words, no additional cow would be killed, because she would be eating his. When he and Phoebe are discussing the pairings of their other four friends Ross and Rachel, and Monica and Chandler , Joey wonders aloud when he and Phoebe "are gonna hook up.

The girls have been the objects of many sexist comments on Joey's behalf, especially Monica. Chandler once sarcastically puts it, "Your long-standing offer to have sex with my wife is much appreciated. A good example of the strong affection all five of his fellow friends have for Joey occurs immediately after they find out that his Days of Our Lives character has been killed off. When he doesn't answer his phone, they rush over to his apartment to check on him.

Rachel tries to cheer him up by assuring him that as far as all of them are concerned, he will always be a great actor. Alex is Joey's super in the Friends spin-off Joey. She later becomes his girlfriend, and she is the first girl Joey has thought about marrying discounting when he proposed to Phoebe and Rachel after hearing they were pregnant.

They get engaged in Season 2 of Joey. Joey is very promiscuous. When Chandler asks Joey if he's had a lot of sex, Joey says, "Today? Not a lot. He has apparently been sexually active for a very long time. He undid a year-old girl's bra when he was 9-years-old, he slept with his teacher in the seventh grade, and he had a wild spring break when he was thirteen.

Despite his great interest in women, he has shown more than once that he will put friends over lovers if faced with a choice: when Janine Lecroix revealed that she disliked Monica and Chandler, Joey quickly broke off his relationship with her despite having been interested in her for the last few episodes; and when Phoebe impersonated her twin sister Ursula who Joey had been dating and made him decide between his relationship with Ursula and his friendship with Phoebe, Joey chose Phoebe without hesitation.

At the end of the series, Joey is the only friend that ends up without a lover or a spouse, even though he is the one who has dated the most, although these were predominantly one-night stands.

As of the end of Joey , he is in a committed relationship with Alex Garrett. Joey's age, like his friends, is not consistently treated. It is first mentioned in " The One With The Birth ", which aired in May , in which he says he is 25, which would made him born around , and would even make him younger than Monica who claims being 26 just an episode before, in " The One With The Ick Factor ".

The latter would put his birth in or early , which would make him older than Chandler. Joey says he has been acting for 10 years. This is consistent with birth in or , assuming he began his acting career at about age On the contrary, the possibility of him being born in is referred to again in Season 3. Indeed, in " The One With The Jam ", when Monica is reading a list of sperm donors, she sees Joey is among them and it is written here that he is "27".

But, when Joey tells his friends that he's supposed to play a year-old, Chandler comments, "So by 'get up early', do you mean ? Due to the age at the end, this is how the ages should have gone: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 Joey's birthday is then consistent with what Michael reveals in the first season of Joey, where he said to be This results in a age for season 1 and for season 2.

Joey is generally a good-natured, charming and well-meaning person, but not so bright. He loves food, women, sex, family, friends, jam, and the New York Knicks. Joey is known for his love of food and sex. He particularly loves sandwiches and pizza.

But in reality, it is his meatball sandwich that he is trying to protect; it just happens to be near Ross. He has a lot of trouble with understanding negative criticism of his acting. Also, although he is usually simple-minded, there are moments where he seems very smart. He discovers Chandler and Monica slept with each other when he hears Monica lost her eyelash-curler, and immediately remembers Chandler saying that the girl he slept with had lost her eyelash-curler. The character was originally not supposed to be anything like he is portrayed throughout most of the series.

His original character description mentions him as "macho, smug, loves women and most of all Joey" which is how we see him for the first two seasons. It was Matt LeBlanc's idea to make a dim character.

Joey's simple-mindedness and lack of common sense are demonstrated when Chandler's traumatizing experience at Joey's childhood tailor finally wake him up to the fact that his tailor has been taking advantage of him and his family for 16 years.

It can be argued that he is the most promiscuous of the group. He has sex with a variety of women, and quite often will sleep with a woman and never call her again.

This includes Laura the adoption assessor but who he convinces didn't call him! Joey has been known to even take shots at and flirt with his female friends. He has actually kissed all of them, and he even dates Rachel for a time. He also frequently imagines lesbian scenes in his head, such as when Rachel tells Monica that they're going out with two nurses.

Joey believes that she means female nurses, and seems pleased with the thought. Joey has made up an anecdote referred to as the "Europe story," or the "magic story", after which hearing it the listener will immediately want to have sex with the storyteller.

When Rachel points out that she heard that a man named Ken Adams came up with the story, he confesses to her that he is, in fact, Ken Adams. In contrast to his "ladies man" personality, he has also a marked childish side.

This childishness often leads to a running gag where he is actually treated like a infant. After they clear things up, Chandler says they can get him, but warns Ross that "he [Joey] eats five times a day and shoves pennies up his nose". In " The One Where Rachel's Sister Baby-Sits ", Joey writes a recommendation letter for Chandler and Monica and sends it to an adoption agency, who mistakenly believe it had been written by a child.

They "guessed 8, 9, based on his drawings", and call Joey in return, asking for his "mommy and daddy". In " The One With Princess Consuela ", Joey and 8-year old girl Mackenzie try to prevent Chandler and Monica from buying a house, and Joey suggests telling them the house is haunted, to which Mackenzie responds "What are you? He later calls her asking for an unrelated advice, but she redirects him to her stuffed bear, and Joey effectively keeps talking to the toy.

Despite generally being ignorant in most academic fields, he purchases a single encyclopedia in " The One With The Cuffs ". This ends up making him knowledgeable about any topic that begins with the letter "V", specifically vomit, Mount Vesuvius, volcanoes, vivisection, the vas deferens, and the Vietnam War.

In addition, despite being the least intelligent of the friends and generally easygoing and pleasant, Joey is more than willing to showcase a mockingly sarcastic sense of humor on occasion, having plenty of good one-liners in the first season and throwing the occasional barb or two in the later ones. Joey has a career in acting that has been marked by both success and humiliating failure. His roles vary from neurosurgeon on a popular soap opera to being the poster boy of V. Until her death, a brash, chain-smoking Estelle Leonard is Joey's agent.

With the exception of Al Zebooker , a man who eats paper, Joey is Estelle's only client. Joey's most famous acting role is as Dr. Drake Ramoray on the serial drama Days of Our Lives. When he claims in an interview that he writes many of his own lines, the writers of the show become annoyed and kill off his character. After blowing his opportunity to be cast as Dr.

The plot line that brings Dr. By the end of the series, Joey was the only one out of the group that was single. He decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue a legitimate career in acting. Joey's move across the country was the focus of the Friends ' spinoff series, appropriately titled Joey.

LeBlanc reprised his role as Joey for the spinoff that lasted for two seasons. Joey premiered the fall of , just a few months after Friends ended. The series focused on the titular character after he moved to Hollywood and reunited with his sister Gina Drea de Matteo. He eventually lived with his genius nephew while trying to acquire consistent work as an actor.

Joey was offered a role on a sitcom but turned it down for another role. That other role happened to be on a show that was quickly canceled while the original show went on to become a major hit. I think the transformation of Joey into a guy who doesn't know how to get a date, who doesn't have any friends — I think that made the audience go away.

Turning Joey into a vulnerable character away from his friends made the transition a difficult one to watch, especially for the 'Friends' audience. Although that factored in, it was the numbers of the show that put the icing on the cake. Though looking back at those same numbers today, it would have thrived in this generation of TV streaming, and in fact, it would've rated among the current top shows, "If the show was on today, I'd bet you we're in the top At the very least, LeBlanc has no regrets when it comes to the show and its quick exit.

Most fans can agree, if the show went in a different direction, it could've thrived and evolved into another smash hit.