Hi everyone, how you doing and thank you for tuning in to the 227th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

Reporters Awards Podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and this episode is

presented by HBO's The Defiant Ones, a docuaries that chronicles the unlikely yet unbreakable

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My guest today is a beloved comedy actor who became famous as part of TV's most celebrated sextet.

He played Joey Trebioni on NBC's massively popular comedy series Friends from 1994 through 2004

then was rather infamously part of a short-lived friend's spin-off, Joey, which ran on the Peacock network from 2004 through 2006, and most recently, from 2011 through 2017,

he starred on yet another comedy series Showtime's episodes essentially playing a heightened version of himself

Matt LeBlanc is not only a fan favorite but also an industry darling over the course of his 30 years in the business,

he has landed seven Emmy Noms,

three for Friends and four for episodes in the category of Best Actor in a comedy series,

five Golden Globe Noms for Best Actor in a TV musical or comedy,

two for friends, one for Joey, and two for episodes, winning once in 2012 for his work on the first season of episodes and one Sagnom in the category

of Best Actor in a Comedy Series for Friends.

This summer he is considered a serious threat to land another Emmy-nom, which could lead to his first Emmy win for

the final season of episodes which came to an end in October.

But first I was joined at the offices of the Hollywood reporter by my good friend Aaron Couch who is

the senior editor of Heat Vision our terrific blog devoted to fan boy entertainment.

Aaron, thank you for joining us.

Hey, thank you Scott.

So yesterday, Thursday was the first official day of summer and at midnight, Universal began

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