Will Friedle

For some reason, part of my morning routine is watching the ubiquitous, insufferable Boy Meets World as I get dressed every morning. While a few years ago I pointed it out as the corniest show in history I also noted that once let off the leash Will Friedle was one of the funniest guys on tv at the time, and vis-a-vis this oral history of the special "horror episode" (which was actually laugh-out-loud funny and featured Friedle's girlfriend at the time, Jennifer Love Hewitt-Xmastime) confirms that the writers knew how funny Friedle was:

McCracken: Will Friedle was one of the funniest people. He does voiceover work like crazy. He was the funniest actor I have ever worked with. In terms of improvisation, spontaneity, imagination, creativity. He just blew me away. 

Menell: He had Jim Carrey qualities. He was willing to do anything. We made him a little too dumb sometimes. Even he would say, "Come on guys." There was stuff we didn't do because we thought it was too ridiculous. He was just really, really funny. 

Jacobs: For Eric Matthews, we started with a dependable brother and said, "What kind of incredible moron can we turn this character into?" No matter how much moron we gave you, you always wanted more. We were happy to supply it. 

Friedle: I always said that you could never go too far with the character and the writers did their best every week to test that theory.