The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.

Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote "Fans of the sitcom Friends may be surprised by David Schwimmer in Kissing a Fool. He played a hopeless-romantic paleontologist who works at a museum and later becomes a professor at a university. Critics dismissed The Pallbearer as a poor imitation of the 1967 film The Graduate.

A. The following year he made his Off-Broadway directorial debut in the 2008 production Fault Lines. For much of the late-1980s he lived in Los Angeles as a struggling unemployed actor.