The Shady Side Of Jennifer Aniston

"Oh, are you setting Ross up with someone? Does she have a wedding dress?" "I don't want my baby's first words to be 'how you doin'?'" "Just so you know, it's not that common, it doesn't happen to every guy, and it is a big deal!" Matthew Perry's Chandler may have been the most consistently funny of the "Friends" bunch. But when it came to throwing shade, no one did it with more aplomb than Jennifer Aniston's Rachel Green.

And as it turns out, Aniston appears to be just as sharp with her tongue in real life, too. Indeed, the much-loved actor has cut down everyone from socialites and snowflakes to anchorwomen and airlines since rising to fame in the pop cultural phenomenon back in the 1990s. In fact, even her long-running cast mates aren't immune from her pure sass. Here's a look at 14 times Aniston was shadier than a palm tree.

In 2022, Jennifer Aniston and Sebastian Stan interviewed each other for Variety's regular "Actors on Actors" feature. And with the latter having just appeared in the dramatization of the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape story, talk inevitably turned to the concept of celebrity.

"Right at the time the internet really shaped a new culture about people becoming famous," Aniston remarked about the scandal depicted in Hulu series "Pam and Tommy." The "Horrible Bosses" star then singled out two major tabloid names, Paris Hilton and Monica Lewinsky, when she added, "This thing of people becoming famous for basically doing nothing." Meeeoow.

While socialite Hilton decided not to respond to Aniston's blatant bit of shade-throwing, Lewinsky appeared to clap back with a bit of passive-aggressive tweeting. The former White House intern, who, of course, became a household name following her affair with then-president Bill Clinton, hit the like button on a particular thread. And its sentiment? Blasting those stars who promote female empowerment while simultaneously demeaning women for their past.

Don't expect to see Jennifer Aniston donning a crime-fighting latex suit any time soon. While promoting Apple TV+'s flagship drama "The Morning Show," a series some might say has become just as outlandish as any superhero caper, the actor specifically called out the Marvel Cinematic Universe for diluting the quality of today's entertainment landscape.

"It wasn't until the last couple of years when these streaming services were just sort of exploding with this amount of quality that I actually started to think, 'Wow, that's better than what I just did,'" Aniston said in an interview with Variety. "And then you're seeing what's available out there and it's just diminishing and diminishing in terms of, it's big Marvel movies. Or things that I'm not just asked to do or really that interested in living in a green screen."

Of course, with "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania," and "The Marvels" both underperforming at the box office, it seems as though the general public may now agree with Aniston about the saturation of comic book films. And that's not the only comment in the interview where she appeared to be ahead of the curve. Just a year after calling for a Meg Ryan comeback, the '80s/'90s rom-com favorite starred in and directed the theatrically released picture "What Happens Later."

While many celebrities would have thought nothing of publicly calling the "other woman" every name under the sun, Jennifer Aniston largely kept a dignified silence about Angelina Jolie following the breakdown of her marriage to Brad Pitt. But while speaking to Vogue in 2008, the "Friends" star couldn't resist throwing at least a little bit of shade in the Oscar winner's direction.

Referring to the W magazine shoot in which Jolie and Pitt spoke publicly about their new relationship, Aniston said, "There was stuff printed there that was definitely from a time when I was unaware that it was happening. I felt those details were a little inappropriate to discuss. That stuff about how she couldn't wait to get to work every day? That was really uncool."

Aniston also made light of a The New York Times cartoon in which she was depicted loading a shotgun while talking to Jolie on the phone alongside the speech bubble, "Hi Angelina ... I decided to take you up on your offer of a 'sit-down talk.'" The "Just Go With It" star said, "It was the funniest thing I've ever seen."

While "Friends" remains a permanent part of the popcultural landscape, it has come under scrutiny in recent years for its questionable attitudes to race, sexuality, and a whole host of other thorny issues. But in an interview with AFP, (via Los Angeles Times) Jennifer Aniston stated that she believes that it's unfair to judge the very '90s show through a 2020s lens.

The star, who played Rachel Green on the hit sitcom, said, "There's a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of "Friends" and find them offensive. There were things that were never intentional and others ... well, we should have thought it through — but I don't think there was a sensitivity like there is now."

Aniston also hit out at the general concept of cancel culture while talking to the Wall Street Journal during promotion for "The Morning Show," the Apple TV+ drama which explores the same subject: "I probably just got canceled by saying that. I just don't understand what it means ... Is there no redemption? I don't know. I don't put everybody in the Harvey Weinstein basket."

Kanye West could start an argument with a paper bag, but it was still something of a surprise to see the provocative rapper get into a feud with Jennifer Aniston in 2020. Although in his defense, the "Friends" favorite did kinda start it.

Yes, Aniston made an unlikely enemy when she took to Instagram to declare who she'd voted for in the presidential election. And unsurprisingly, it wasn't the "Gold Digger" rapper. Indeed, after naming Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as her political candidates of choice, the actor implored followers not to waste their say: "Vote for equal human rights, for love, and for decency. P.S. It's not funny to vote for Kanye. I don't know how else to say it. Please be responsible."

Unsurprisingly, West didn't take this spot of shade-throwing lying down. The hip-hop star shared an article about Aniston's remarks on X, formerly known as Twitter, before claiming that his recent three-hour guest appearance on "The Joe Rogan Show" had got the elite 'shook.' He then further clapped back with the zinger (via The Sun), ""Friends" wasn't funny either."

Few things exemplify the double standards men and women face in Hollywood better than the red carpet premiere. While the latter need to be dressed up to the nines to avoid being scrutinized by the fashion police, the former can turn up looking like they're on a trip to Walmart. Just look at the differences in effort shown by Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston when they attended a Los Angeles screening of their Netflix sequel "Murder Mystery 2."

While the "Friends" star sported an Atelier Versace dress for the occasion, her co-star decided to rock up in a sweatshirt. And Aniston made it clear that she didn't appreciate Sandler's sartorial choices when she was interviewed on "Entertainment Tonight."

As the funnyman gatecrashed her chat, Aniston, not unreasonably, joked, "What the hell are you doing? I'm not standing next to him." Sandler then claimed that he was only following his co-star's orders via text message before she corrected him, "I said, 'Please don't wear your sweatshirt.'"

Jennifer Aniston better hope that she never has to travel on an American-owned airline again. As due to the less-than-flattering treatment the "Friends" star gave them in a TV commercial for Emirates, she's unlikely to be welcomed on board.

The advert sees Aniston suffering from a bad dream in which she's — shock! horror! — forced to travel on a dimly-lit aircraft that doesn't have shower facilities or every alcoholic drink on tap. Instead of pointing her in the direction of a cubicle or fully-equipped bar, the condescending flight attendants simply laugh at the loofah-carrying star and offer her a hand towel and some peanuts.

Thankfully for the poor, deprived A-lister, she soon wakes up to find herself wrapped up all cozily in a blanket inside a first-class Emirates cabin. "It was a nightmare," the relieved Aniston says before telling the barman mixing her a martini thousands of feet up in the air. "I was on a plane and it was nothing like this."