Friends is a popular American television sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, on NBC. The series revolves around six friends who live and work in New York City: Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston), Monica Geller (Courteney Cox), Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow), Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc), Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry), and Ross Geller (David Schwimmer).