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Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

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Matthew Perry
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 19
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Williamstown
Massachusetts
Matthew Langford Perry
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