The US’s plutocrats and politicians want more, more, more. Matt LeBlanc shows us a better way | Arwa Mahdawi

Joey from Friends' has gone viral for his lack of drive. This is what the world needs - someone who's happy with nothing rather than everything

Nothing will come of nothing," King Lear said. He was totally wrong, I'm afraid. The truth is, a lot can come from nothing. More specifically: great life satisfaction can come from doing very little.

You know who is well aware of that? Matt LeBlanc (AKA Joey from Friends), the king of 90s primetime TV. A TikTok featuring resurfaced interviews in which LeBlanc extols the joys of sloth is generating enormous enthusiasm online. The TikTok pulls from a 2018 interview in which LeBlanc gushed about how much he enjoyed taking time off after Friends and then cuts to a 2017 interview in which he said: Ishould be a professional nothing." Speaking to Conan O'Brien, LeBlanc explained: Because I think I would like to do not a fucking thing. That's what Iwould like to do. Just nothing. Nothing. Zero." (Same, Matt, same.)

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