Matt LeBlanc may be best known for his role as Joey on Friends, but he is hysterical playing a parody of himself on Episodes. The new season starts tonight, and HollywoodLife.com has a sneak peek at all the laughs!

Matt, 44, stars as ‘Matt LeBlanc’, a vain, womanizing version of himself. Coupled with married British writers Sean (Stephen Mangan) and Beverly Lincoln (Tamsin Greig), the fictitious Matt is continuing to relaunch his career with the poorly-written show Pucks.

But there is plenty of tension, considering the marriage of Sean and Beverly was rocked by her affair with Matt! Will this love triangle derail Pucks for good? Watch to find out!

Be sure to tune in for the second season, premiering July 1 at 10:30 p.m. EST on Showtime.

Will YOU watch the new season of Episodes, HollywoodLifers?

– William Earl

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The former Friends star has spent the four years since his show Joey went off the air doing the thing he loves best — being a good dad!

While all of Matt LeBlanc’s co-stars from Friends seem to have found some level of success since the show went off the air (be it in movies — Jennifer Aniston; TV — Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry and Lisa Kudrow; or theater —David Schwimmer), the man known eternally as Joey Tribbiani has kept a low profile. But there’s a good reason for that — he’s been spending quality time with his 6-year-old daughter, Marina (with ex-wife Melissa McKnight).

“When Joey ended, I took a lot of time off… I just really was kind of burned out,” the 43-year-old actor told the audience at the Television Critics Association press tour presentation for his new TV show, Episodes. “I just wanted to be a dad. We have a great bond, and it’s the best thing in my life.”

But no longer the only thing. The new show, in which Matt will conveniently play an actor named Matt LeBlanc, was co-created Friends executive producer and co-creator David Crane, and examines the relationships between actors and producers. “He’s a character that happens to have the same name as me,” said Matt during a panel discussion. “There are some similarities, but, for the most part, it’s fictitious.”

He also didn’t rule out a mini-Friends reunion on the show, but either way, we’ll be watching. Welcome back, Matt!

Are you excited to see one of your best Friends coming back to the small screen?

It’s Matt LeBlanc like you’ve never seen him before. Literally. The 42-year-old actor is finally saying bye-bye to Joey Tribbiani and playing … himself.

Unfortunately, the former Friends star runs into trouble when he tries to land the part of ‘Matt LeBlanc’ during an audition for a show ON his new Showtime series, Episodes, which begins filming this spring. Got that?

In a preview clip for the show, Matt is asked by casting agents to state his name in front of a video camera and recite some lines, but is told that he needs to be “more Matt.”

Hey, if we had played the dumb but lovable Joey Tribianni for 10 years onscreen, we might have problems remembering who we were, too!