 In 2014 , it was announced that Schwimmer has been cast as the lead in the ABC comedy pilot Irreversible . He would play " one half of a somewhat eccentric , self @-@ absorbed couple " in his first comedic television role since Friends finished in 2004 . As of January 2016 , Schwimmer is playing Robert Kardashian in the first season of the FX anthology series American Crime Story . The series is developed by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski and is based on the novel , The Run of His Life : The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin . In January 2016 , it was announced that Schwimmer and Jim Sturgess would be starring in the new AMC crime drama , Feed the Beast . Schwimmer will be playing Tommy Moran , while Sturgess will play Moran 's best friend , Dion Patras . 
