Monica Geller "The Michigan Daily" appreciated the fact that "Cox brought moments of sincerity and severity to Monica". However, "The Washington Post" panned Cox's performance as "degrading", while Mike Ryan of ScreenCrush dismissed Monica as a "fairly normal, but boring" character. In 1999, Cox was nominated for an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Female Performer in a TV Series. Although continuously praised for her performance, Cox never received an Emmy Award nomination for her role on "Friends" during its entire run, although each of her five co-stars did. Both female castmates Lisa Kudrow and Jennifer Aniston remain the show's only main
John and Gillian John and Gillian John and Gillian, a young brother and sister, are characters in the "TV Comic" strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". The stories featuring them were drawn first by Neville Main, then by Bill Mevin and finally by John Canning. They first appeared in the story "The Klepton Parasites" (issues 674 to 683). They began by looking for their grandfather, the Doctor, in a junkyard. This paralleled the events of the television series' first episode "An Unearthly Child", although in the strip, the junkyard was at No. 16 instead of No. 76.