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 Tribbiani but it is shut down before filming began in Las Vegas. He is also fired from a Burger King commercial. He filmed a role in a "Law & Order" episode that was cut from the completed episode—Joey was only "seen" as a corpse in a body bag. In seasons 6 and 7, he lands a starring role as Detective 'Mac' Machiavelli in a very short-lived, and very bad cop show called "Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E", which Chandler described as "one of the worst things ever... and not just on TV." Joey had high hopes for the series, however "Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E"