Joey Tribbiani

Joey Tribbiani is a fictional character who appears as one of the main characters on the NBC sitcom Friends and as the main character in the spin-off Joey. Matt LeBlanc plays him in both series. He is a struggling Italian-American actor living in New York City with his roommate and best friend, Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry). When Chandler moved out to live with Monica, he shared a house with a few other roommates. He is a Catholic from Queens, New York. He had a history of mishaps as a child.

Joey is portrayed as promiscuous and dim-witted, but also as loyal, caring, and protective of his friends. He is a womanizer who enjoys food and has had more success with dates than the other members of the group. In contrast to his image as a "ladies' man", he has a childish side. He enjoys video games and foosball, sandwiches and pizza, and watching Baywatch and Beavis & Butthead. He is constantly looking for work as a struggling actor. In "The One with the Truth About London", he was ordained as a minister and officiated at Monica and Chandler's and Phoebe and Mike's weddings. 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 baseball, Los Angeles Clippers and New York Knicks in basketball, New York Giants and New York Jets in football, and the Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers in hockey. In the show, it is shown that Joey enjoys watching the television show Baywatch and pornographic films.