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Craig Robinson says Lisa Kudrow stood up for him while shooting a scene in the tenth season of Friends<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n “Lisa was cool enough to speak up for me, because I had thrown out a line that she heard, but nobody else heard it,” Robinson recalled. “She was like, ‘We have a pitch!'”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Robinson appeared on season 10 episode 14 of Friends <\/em>with Kudrow, as an office clerk who helps Kudrow’s Phoebe change her name to Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Lisa Kudrow<\/a> really will be there for you.<\/p>\n Craig Robinson<\/a> learned that lesson in a memorable way while shooting a scene for a tenth season episode of Friends<\/em><\/a>. Back in 2004, Robinson only had a few credits to his name, from single-episode spots on series like LAX<\/em><\/a> and The Bernie Mac Show<\/em><\/a>, to a role on the short-lived FX comedy Lucky<\/em>. Then came an opportunity to play opposite Kudrow, who had become one of TV’s biggest stars after 10 years on the beloved sitcom.<\/p>\n “I ended up working with Lisa later. We played a married couple in Table 19<\/em>, actually. So we got real cool,” Robinson tells Entertainment Weekly<\/em>. “But back then, it was pretty much one scene, there really wasn’t much else. We rehearsed it twice and then they did a pitch, and Lisa was cool enough to speak up for me.”<\/p>\n