Jennifer Aniston Asked NBC for New Washer and Dryer Amid 'Friends' Success

Jennifer Aniston had a modest request for her bosses at NBC amid Friends’ astronomical success: a new washer and dryer. The actress, who played Rachel Green on the hit sitcom from 1994 to 2004, told Dax Shepard on the Monday, October 20, episode of the “Armchair Expert” podcast that she asked for the home appliance after learning actors on other hit TV shows got extravagant gifts from their networks. “I said, ‘Will you please give me a washer and dryer, and he wrote that on a napkin,’” she recalled of a conversation with former NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield, under whom NBC fou