Poor Emily can’t catch a break.
“She was nice, but not particularly funny,” Burrows writes of Baxendale,according to PEOPLE.
“Schwimmer had no one to bounce off,” he writes.

Helen Baxendale and Jennifer Aniston.Anthony Harvey/Getty, Steve Granitz/FilmMagi
“It was like clapping with one hand.”
We discovered that any new girlfriend for Ross needed to be as funny as Rachel."
“You need someone who gets laughs,” he writes.
If it’s a day player, it’s a quick goodbye."
Despite being nice but not funny, Baxendale played Emily for 14 episodes across seasons 4 and 5 ofFriends.
And, of course, she and Ross got married (but did they, though?
), even after Ross “mistakenly” said Rachel’s name instead of Emily’s at the altar.