Looking back on her career, Kudrow reframed every rejection and failure as a necessary redirection. Getting passed over for Saturday Night Live, the failed Romy and Michele pilot, being fired from Frasier — each seeming disaster was actually a guidepost keeping her on the path to Friends. And on the night she was fired from Frasier, feeling like she had nothing to lose, she flirted with a guy who was 'way out of her league' at a birthday party. Fifteen years later, they were married with a twelve-year-old son. 'Thank God I got fired,' she told the Vassar graduates. 'Maybe there is a reason for everything. I think there is.'