Ross Geller Tribbiani and helps him with movie and stage auditions. He kisses Joey once in order to help him practice a role as a gay man, only to find out that Joey had already done the audition and didn't get the part. Joey and Ross also briefly try to cut Chandler out of their friend group after he ignores them. Joey and Ross fall asleep together on the couch after watching Die Hard. Toward the end of the series, however, Ross and Joey are seen to become closer friends, often hanging out together after Chandler gets married. Ross often tries to
Joey Stivic Gloria now separated from Mike, she returned to "Archie Bunker's Place" with Joey in the February 1982 episode "Gloria Comes Home". In this episode, Joey was played by Christopher Johnston. Joey Stivic was a regular character on the "All in the Family" spin-off series "Gloria" in 1982 and 1983. On this series, in which the now-divorced Gloria Bunker character had moved to Upstate New York in order to work as an assistant veterinarian, the part of Joey Stivic was played by ten-year-old actor Christian Jacobs. After "Gloria" was canceled in 1983, Joey Stivic disappeared from prime time television for 11