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“Friends” star Courteney Cox got everyone’s attention when she reacted to a since-deleted post from Kanye West in which the rapper shared on Instagram that the hit NBC show was “not funny.”

The 58-year-old actress shared a video on her social media Tuesday that showed her first rocking out to West’s 2008 “Heartless” as it appeared she was scrolling though her phone. Cox then zoomed into Kanye’s since-deleted post in which he claimed that he never tweeted that the show was “not funny,” but wished he had, Page Six reported in a piece published Wednesday.

“I actually didn’t write the tweet that said ‘Friends’ wasn’t funny either,’ but I wish I had,” the 45-year-old rapper shared in his post on Instagram, before basically deleting all his posts but one.

After Cox read what West said about “Friends,” she stopped rocking out, turned off the phone, and left it and the room behind.

She captioned her post, “I bet the old Kayne thought Friends was funny.”

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The reference to the “Friends” tweet happened in 2020 during the presidential election when Courteney’s former co-star Jennifer Aniston endorsed Joe Biden for president over then-President Donald Trump, People magazine noted.

At the time, Aniston warned people about voting for West, who was also running for president.

“It’s not funny to vote for Kanye,” Aniston’s tweet read. “I don’t know how else to say it. Please be responsible.”

Someone then made it look like West tweeted a dig at “Friends” in response, which in his recent Instagram post, he said he never did, but agreed with it.

Cox starred as Monica Geller, alongside Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer in the hit 90s sitcom. Kudrow herself recently made headlines when she said that the show had “no business writing” storylines about “being a person of color” in response to criticism that she show didn’t have many black people as part of the cast.

“Well, I feel like it was a show created by two people who went to Brandeis and wrote about their lives after college,” Kudrow said. “And for shows especially, when it’s going to be a comedy that’s character-driven, you write what you know. They have no business writing stories about the experiences of being a person of color. I think at that time, the big problem that I was seeing was, ‘Where’s the apprenticeship?’”

As if fact-checking wasn’t already bad enough, meet the new truthfulness gatekeeper at MSNBC: Jen Psaki.

Seriously. Stop laughing, everyone.

According to The Wrap, the former White House press secretary for President Joe Biden told an audience at a conference in Beverly Hills, California, that her new MSNBC show will be dedicated to “debunking things, calling out BS.”

“First of all, my business is not rage,” Psaki said Wednesday at Vox Media’s Code Conference.

“What I hope to do is bring that passion for explaining things, debunking things, calling out BS when you see it to my next job,” she said.

The streaming series doesn’t drop until 2023 — but if you need a preview, Psaki went on to demonstrate just how dedicated to calling out BS she was.

The Wrap reported that Psaki “called analysis that saw Biden’s speech Thursday as partisan ‘bizarre,’ noting that ‘there’s a tactical component of what he’s saying publicly … but it’s not a reflection of a change in his view.’”

Just so we’re clear, this is the speech we’re talking about — the one where he calls “MAGA Republicans” a foundational threat to our democracy:

“Equality and Democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise,” says President Biden, at the beginning of his remarks tonight.

“Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.” pic.twitter.com/Yc9sdolykO

— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 2, 2022

Unity. pic.twitter.com/AtjFb2B0pN

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 2, 2022

Psaki’s business might not be rage, but the president’s certainly was — at least last week. “MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution,” he told America.

“They do not believe in the rule of law,” Biden said. “They do not recognize the will of the people … MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards — backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.

“They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.”

Don’t call that kind of rhetoric partisan, though. Otherwise, Jen Psaki is going to have to debunk your bizarre BS. Capisce?

Of course, Psaki herself left no doubt in attendees’ minds as to whether she was partisan. Spoiler alert: Yeah. Duh.

“I’m not trying to hide from what my past experiences are,” she said.