Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/HBO Lisa Kudrow may be best known for playing the delightfully daffy Phoebe Buffay on Friends . But the role she really relates to is the deeply damaged Valerie Cherish on The Comeback . “I’m sure the line got blurred for me, being Valerie,” Kudrow, 62, said on Obsessed: The Podcast of the character she has been playing on and off for more than two decades. Read more at The Daily Beast.