Friends turns 30: Can it be adjudged the best sitcom ever?

Its popularity and pop culture references notwithstanding, Friends is labelled by many as the "Best sitcom." But was it really the best?

It is a three-decade-old incident, but Jennifer Aniston recounts it with the enthusiasm of a three-year-old. Seated on the couch opposite talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, the actor fondly recollects an impromptu trip she and the rest of the cast of Friends took to Las Vegas in 1994, days before the show aired on the NBC network.

In the words of Aniston, the show’s director, Jimmy Burrows, got them in a huddle and handed each a couple of hundred dollars, and said: “Now go into the casino and gamble because this is the last time you will