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{{short description|Fictional character from the
{{Infobox character
| name = Joey Tribbiani
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| portrayer = [[Matt LeBlanc]]
| alias = Ken Adams, Holden McGroin
| occupation = Actor<br>Cologne sampler (seasons 1–2)<br>Entry-level processor (season 2)<br>Acting teacher (season 3)<br >Christmas tree salesman (season 3)<br>Museum tour guide (season 4)<br>[[Waiter]] (
| family = [[List of Friends characters#Joseph Tribbiani Sr. and Gloria Tribbiani|Gloria Tribbiani]] (mother)<br>[[List of Friends characters#Joseph Tribbiani Sr. and Gloria Tribbiani|Joseph Tribbiani Sr.]] (father)<br>[[Joey (TV series)#Main characters|Gina Tribbiani]] (sister)<br>Dina Tribbiani (sister)<br>Mary Angela Tribbiani (sister)<br/>Mary Therese Tribbiani (sister)<br/>Veronica Tribbiani (sister)<br/>Cookie Tribbiani (sister)<br/>Tina Tribbiani (sister)
| relatives = [[Joey (TV series)#Main characters|Michael Tribbiani]] (nephew)<br/>[[List of Friends characters#Nonna|Nonna]] (grandmother)<br />[[List of Friends characters#Nonnie|Nonnie]] (grandmother)
| significant_others = Angela Delvecchio (ex-girlfriend)<br/>Kate (ex-girlfriend)<br/>Kathy (ex-girlfriend)<br/>Janine (ex-girlfriend)<br/>Erin (ex-girlfriend)<br/>[[Rachel Green]] (ex-girlfriend)<br/>Alex Garrett (
| religion = [[Catholic Church|Catholicism]]
| nationality = Italian-American
| affiliation = [[Screen Actors Guild]] (SAG)
}}
'''Joseph Francis Tribbiani Jr.''' (born 1968/1969)<ref>"https://screenrant.com/friends-character-ages-change-wrong-explained/" Screenrant, Friends: The Characters' Ages (& How They Get It Wrong)</ref> is a fictional character, serving as one of the primary characters of the [[NBC]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Friends]]'' and the protagonist of its spin-off ''[[Joey (TV series)|Joey]]''. He is portrayed by [[Matt LeBlanc]] in both series.<ref>[http://www.mattleblanc.net/ Matt Leblanc Fan Site]</ref>▼
▲'''Joseph Francis Tribbiani Jr.''' (born 1968
He is an [[Italian Americans|Italian-American]] struggling actor who lives in [[New York City]] with his roommate and best friend, [[Chandler Bing]] ([[Matthew Perry]]), and hangs out in a tight-knit group of his best friends: Chandler, [[Ross Geller]] ([[David Schwimmer]]), [[Monica Geller]] ([[Courteney Cox]]), [[Rachel Green]] ([[Jennifer Aniston]]), and [[Phoebe Buffay]] ([[Lisa Kudrow]]). He lived with a few other roommates when Chandler moved out to move in with Monica.▼
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Joey once mentioned being 13 in 1981.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One with Joey's Fridge|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= March 23, 2000|season=6|number=19}}</ref> He is from [[Queens, New York]] and is [[Catholic Church|Catholic]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The One With the Dozen Lasagnas|url=https://fangj.github.io/friends/season/0112.html|website=fangj.github.io|access-date=10 December 2017}}</ref> Joey comes from a [[working-class]] Italian-American family of eight children, of which he is the only boy. His father Joseph Tribbiani Sr. ([[Robert Costanzo]]), is a [[pipefitter]], and his mother's name is Gloria ([[Brenda Vaccaro]]). Joey has seven sisters: Mary Therese ([[Mimi Lieber]] on ''[[Friends]]'') a.k.a. Mary Teresa ([[Christina Ricci]] on ''[[Joey (TV series)|Joey]]''), Mary Angela ([[Holly Gagnier]]), Dina ([[Marla Sokoloff]]), Gina ([[K.J. Steinberg]] on ''[[Friends]]'', [[Drea de Matteo]] on ''[[Joey (TV series)|Joey]]''), Tina ([[Lisa Maris]]),<ref name="mtv.com">{{cite web|first=Amanda|last=Bell|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2743243/joey-tribbianis-sisters-friends/|title=Where Are Joey Tribbiani's Sisters Now?|website=[[MTV.com]]|date=February 24, 2016|access-date=November 12, 2018}}</ref> Veronica ([[Dena Miceli]]),<ref name="mtv.com"/> and Cookie ([[Alex Meneses]]). As a child, he was extremely accident-prone.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One with the Boob Job|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= February 20, 2003|season=9|number=16}}</ref> In "The One with Ross' New Girlfriend", it was implied that he was sexually abused by his [[tailor]] but didn't realize it until Chandler went to the same tailor.▼
▲Joey once mentioned being 13 in 1981.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One with Joey's Fridge|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= March 23, 2000|season=6|number=19}}</ref> He is from [[Queens, New York]] and is [[Catholic Church|Catholic]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The One With the Dozen Lasagnas|url=https://fangj.github.io/friends/season/0112.html|website=fangj.github.io|access-date=10 December 2017}}</ref> Joey comes from a [[working-class]] Italian-American family of eight children, of which he is the only boy. His father Joseph Tribbiani Sr. ([[Robert Costanzo]]), is a [[pipefitter]], and his mother's name is Gloria ([[Brenda Vaccaro]]). Joey has seven sisters: Mary Therese (
Joey is portrayed as promiscuous and dim-witted but good-natured, as well as very loyal, caring, and protective of his friends. He is a food-loving womanizer who has had more luck with dates than any of the other group members. In contrast to his persona as the "ladies' man", he has also a marked childish side. He enjoys playing video games and [[Table football|foosball]], loves sandwiches and pizza, and is a big fan of ''[[Baywatch]]'' and ''[[Beavis & Butt-Head]]''. As a struggling actor, he is constantly looking for work. He was ordained as a minister in "[[The One with the Truth About London]]" and officiated at both Monica and Chandler's and Phoebe and Mike's weddings.▼
▲Joey is portrayed as promiscuous and dim-witted but good-natured, as well as very loyal, caring, and protective of his friends. The writers of ''Friends'' didn't intend on his character to be stupid but Matt Leblanc played "dim-witted" so well that it became a part of the character.<ref>{{Cite web |last=ReadingEagle |date=2021-06-05 |title=Friends creators 'didn't initially intend' for Joey Tribbiani 'to be stupid' |url=https://www.readingeagle.com/2021/06/05/friends-creators-didnt-initially-intend-for-joey-tribbiani-to-be-stupid/ |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=Reading Eagle |language=en-US}}</ref> He is a food-loving womanizer who has had more luck with dates than any of the other group members. In contrast to his persona as the "ladies' man", he has also a marked childish side. He enjoys playing video games and [[Table football|foosball]], loves sandwiches and pizza, and is a big fan of ''[[Baywatch]]'' and ''[[Beavis
He does not like sharing food, especially when it is pizza, and has difficulty with even simple mathematics. In sports, Joey likes the [[New York Yankees]] in [[Major League Baseball|baseball]], [[Los Angeles Clippers]] and [[New York Knicks]] in [[National Basketball Association|basketball]], [[New York Giants]] and [[New York Jets]] in [[National Football League|football]], and the [[Detroit Red Wings]] and [[New York Rangers]] in [[National Hockey League|hockey]].▼
▲He does not like sharing food, especially when it is pizza, and has difficulty with even simple mathematics. In sports, Joey likes the [[New York Yankees]] in [[Major League Baseball|baseball]],
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Joey Tribbiani is a member of the [[Screen Actors Guild]],<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One Where Joey Loses His Insurance|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= October 14, 1999|season=6|number=4}}</ref> having refused to follow in his father's foot steps and become a
Joey becomes an "actor-slash-model" when he appears on print ads for the NYC Free Clinic, as a man named "Mario" who has a [[venereal disease]].<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One Where Underdog Gets Away|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= November 17, 1994|season=1|number=9}}</ref> He also did an [[infomercial]] for a device that lets you pour milk out of milk [[carton]]s; he played "Kevin", a man who had extreme difficulty opening the cartons without the use of the device. ("Kevin" also inadvertently choked on a cookie during the show.). This haunted him again when he appeared in the play 'The King', where he was made fun of due to choking on a cookie.
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In Season Two, Joey continued his stage work, appearing as "The King" in a poorly reviewed (and never-named) play. Published reviews of his performance claimed he was "disturbingly unskilled" and that he achieved "brilliant new levels of sucking" in a "mediocre play" with "mindless, adolescent direction".<ref name="russ">{{Cite episode|title=The One with Russ|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= January 4, 1996|season=2|number=10}}</ref> Only days after these reviews came out, Joey gets his big break when he lands his first major role as Dr. Drake Ramoray on the soap opera ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'', a real-life television show outside of the context of ''Friends'' which featured Jennifer Aniston's father [[John Aniston|John]]. In-universe, Joey had initially gone in to read for a one-shot role as a cab driver; it is implied that he got the recurring role of Ramoray by sleeping with the casting director.<ref name="russ"/> While still playing Ramoray, he also appears in a bit role as a dead man in the film ''Outbreak 2: The Virus Takes Manhattan'', starring [[Jean-Claude Van Damme]]. (Originally his character was only dying in the scene but due to Joey overacting, it was changed to him being already dead.)
Several episodes later, Joey costs himself the ''Days of our Lives'' gig when during an interview with ''[[Soap Opera Digest]]'', he radically overstates and claims he writes most of his own lines. This angers the show's writers, who out of spite, "kill off" his character by having Dr. Ramoray fall down an elevator shaft. Joey takes this
He goes back to stage acting in Season Three appearing in a play called ''Boxing Day'' opposite love interest [[Characters of Friends#Introduced in season three|Kate Miller]]. The play seems to start out as a conventional drama but ends with Joey's character "Victor" being taken from his apartment by aliens.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One with the Screamer|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= April 24, 1997|season=3|number=22}}</ref> In Season Four, he lands a small one-scene movie role as a cop, playing his scene opposite [[Charlton Heston]].<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One with Joey's Dirty Day|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= February 5, 1998|season=4|number=14}}</ref>
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Joey had some bad luck in terms of his acting career. In Season Five, he is cast in the [[independent film]] ''Shutter Speed'', but it is shut down before filming began in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]].<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One with Joey's Big Break|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= May 11, 1998|season=5|number=22}}</ref> He was also fired from a [[Burger King]] commercial. He filmed a role in a ''[[Law & Order]]'' episode that was cut from the completed episode—Joey was only "seen" as a corpse in a [[body bag]].
In seasons 6 and 7, he lands a starring role as Detective 'Mac' Machiavelli in a
In Season 7, Joey auditions for the role of Dr. Striker Ramoray, a new character on "Days of Our Lives" and Drake Ramoray's brother, but he doesn't get that role. Eventually, Joey's luck turns when he gets back his role as Dr. Drake Ramoray and is even nominated for an award for Best Returning Character, first as a character in a coma,<ref name="assistant"/> then revived through a brain transplant with another character, Jessica Lockhart (played by [[Susan Sarandon]]).<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One with Joey's New Brain|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= February 15, 2001|season=7|number=15}}</ref>
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Later in season 7, Joey lands a supporting role as "Tony", a soldier, in a major film opposite an [[Academy Awards|Oscar-nominated]] actor named Richard Crosby ([[Gary Oldman]]). The film is a [[World War I]] [[period piece|period film]] entitled ''Over There''.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One with Ross and Monica's Wedding|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= May 17, 2001|season=7|number=24}}</ref> Later Chandler accompanies Joey to the premiere of the film.
Joey is also briefly employed at [[Central Perk]] as a [[waiter]]. Facing a dry spell in his career as an actor, Joey is persuaded by [[Gunther (Friends character)|Gunther]], the manager, to take a job serving [[coffee]]. At first, Joey tries to hide his new job from his friends, but they eventually figure it out. He does not like the work but, true to his nature, soon finds a way to use his position to meet and ingratiate himself to attractive women by giving them free food, although Gunther quickly puts a stop to it. Joey doesn't take his job
Joey is also briefly a [[sperm donation|sperm donor]] for a medical experiment; at the end, the hospital would pay any donor $700. This was later mentioned when Monica goes to a sperm bank. Joey finds to his dismay that his sperm is not
Some of Joey's other jobs have included selling [[Christmas tree]]s, dressing as [[Santa Claus]] and as a [[Christmas elf]],<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One with the Monkey|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= December 15, 1994|season=1|number=10}}</ref> working as a [[tour guide]] at the [[American Museum of Natural History|Museum of Natural History]] where Ross worked, offering [[perfume]] samples to customers at a [[department store]], and as a Roman warrior at [[Caesar's Palace]] in Las Vegas.
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Being a glutton when it comes to food, Joey is shown throughout the series to have the uncanny ability to eat enormous quantities of food. As he prides the Tribbiani family for their eating prowess ("We might not be [...] world leaders, but damn it, we can eat!"), he takes on Monica's challenge to eat a whole roast turkey virtually all by himself. In season 8, episode 9, Monica is unwilling to cook a whole roast turkey for Thanksgiving dinner as Rachel is pregnant, Chandler refuses to eat Thanksgiving food due to childhood traumas, Phoebe is a vegetarian, and dinner guest Will (played by [[Brad Pitt]]) is on a diet. Joey's love for Thanksgiving traditions, however, convinces Monica to roast the turkey only under the condition that Joey can eat the entire 19-pound bird in one sitting. When Monica sees him struggle, she says she is only kidding, but Joey perseveres and with a little help from Phoebe's maternity pants, he eventually not only consumes the entire turkey but has room for dessert afterward. A similar eating stunt happens in season 9, episode 5 when Joey is left alone at the dinner table in a restaurant after Phoebe's failed birthday dinner, and he is forced to eat six meals by himself. He finishes them, only to tuck them into the birthday cake afterward.
Joey is extremely promiscuous, often relying on his catchphrase pickup line "How ''you'' doin'?". He regularly sleeps with attractive women, but can never seem to get into a committed relationship – judging from a conversation he had with Chandler at the latter's bachelor party he seems to regard marriage as depressing and restrictive. He sleeps with many of the interns and extras on shows on which he works. He has apparently been sexually active for a
Despite his promiscuous nature towards many women throughout the series, he is highly protective and old-fashioned when it comes to the relationships of his own sisters. While he does not seem to have a problem with his own lifestyle, he repeatedly makes sure his sisters don't go down the same path. When he finds out in season 3, episode 11 that Chandler drunkenly made out with his sister Mary Angela, he attempts to force the two into a relationship. Later, in season 8, episode 10, Joey initially attempts to force his younger sister Dina into marriage with her hapless boyfriend upon hearing she's pregnant, but they play into his emotional nature by saying they want to raise the baby independently.
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Throughout the series, Joey develops a complicated on-off relationship with Alex Garrett ([[Andrea Anders]]), his next-door neighbor and property manager. They become good friends upon meeting and Alex confides her problems with her marriage in Joey. At the end of season one, she and Joey become romantically involved during her separation from her husband. In season two she becomes romantically interested in Joey and has a crush on him for a long period. Gina tries to help her to get over Joey, but once Alex starts dating Joey's friend Dean, Joey soon realizes that he is also in love with Alex, and they slowly form a committed relationship. In the series finale, Joey becomes concerned over believing that Alex is planning for marriage too early in their relationship, only to become upset when she says she does not want to marry again. When the two argue about the situation, Alex compares his attitude to him not wanting a piece of broccoli until the second she denies it from him. This argument culminates in them nearly marrying out of spite until they make up when he admits to her that she is the first girl he has ever wanted to marry. At the end of the episode, Alex gives Joey back the piece of broccoli, implying that she may be changing her mind about marrying again.
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* [[List of Friends and Joey characters|List of ''Friends'' and ''Joey'' characters]]
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