Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman in 1994. It has 10 seasons (it was aired until 2004). The series shows the life of a group of friends in Manhattan: Rachel Green, a fashion enthusiast and Monica Geller's best friend from high school; Monica Geller, the mother hen of the group and a chef, known for her obsessive-compulsive and competitive nature; Phoebe Buffay, an eccentric masseuse and self-taught musician; Joey Tribbiani, a struggling actor and food lover who becomes famous for his role in a soap opera; Chandler Bing, an executive in statistical analysis and data reconfiguration for a large multi-national corporation known for his sarcastic sense of humor and bad luck in relationships; Ross Geller, Monica Geller's older brother, a paleontologist working at the Museum of Natural History, and later a professor of paleontology at New York University.