Article: Matthew Perry is making new friends in `The West Wing'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Byline: Ellen Gray

Maybe it's time Matthew Perry stopped playing for laughs.

It's not that Chandler Bing's alter ego isn't a funny guy. But as he and his five co-stars contemplate Life After "Friends," I'm hoping he and the producers at NBC's "The West Wing" are putting their heads together about turning his recurring role into a regular one.

Not only is Perry's Joe Quincy, a Republican working as a lawyer in a Democratic White House, filling the political gap left when Emily Procter, who played Ainsley Hayes, decamped for "CSI: Miami," but he's an intriguing character on his own. Last week's episode, in which he apparently helped to broker the ...

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