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" Over the years, there&amp;#039;s been no shortage of Brooklyn Decker love around these parts. You, dear reader, voted her sexiest woman alive in 2010 and we put her on the cover of our February 2011 issue, which yielded a fantastic portrait session, including one with her finger up her nose. Now she&amp;#039;s invading primetime, starring in Friends with Better Lives, a new CBS sitcom with James Van Der Beek, Kevin Connolly, and Zoe Lister-Jones. The show follows six thirtysomething friends who inexplicably have a ton of time to hang out together, talk about why their lives might suck, and get jealous of each other&amp;#039;s sex, work, and overall happiness. But in a funny way. The show was created by Friends vet Dana Klein and it&amp;#039;s Decker&amp;#039;s first proper foray into comedy. We spoke to her about what makes her laugh. She&amp;#039;s quite funny. ESQUIRE.COM: This is your first big role in a TV comedy. Are you a funny person?  BROOKLYN DECKER: I&amp;#039;m more one of those people you laugh at and not with. I&amp;#039;m not the one with the jokes, I&amp;#039;m the one who falls on her face going up a flight of steps. I&amp;#039;ve made people laugh my whole life, it&amp;#039;s never been willingly. This was a highly different format for me: having jokes, letting them breathe, and making people laugh at you.  ESQ: What&amp;#039;s your type of humor?  BD: I have a very dirty sense of humor. ESQ: You do? BD: Yeah, I like pressing the envelope. I think it&amp;#039;s funny when something bold comes out of someone&amp;#039;s mouth that you&amp;#039;re not expecting, things that catch you off guard. That&amp;#039;s what I really like. I like an English sense of humor: dry, dirty, a little bit off. That&amp;#039;s kind of my taste. ESQ: One of the first lines that comes out of your character Jules&amp;#039;s mouth is &amp;quot;I had sex for 12 straight hours.&amp;quot; Have you ever known anyone who&amp;#039;s been open about their sex habits like that?  BD: I have a group of friends who are very open in that way. I feel like I&amp;#039;m more of the Andy-Bobby [played by Majandra Delfino and Kevin Connolly] couple in my life. Most of my friends have lived at my house, we talk about everything, there are no boundaries. For me, that&amp;#039;s something people would talk about. But I have personally never known a person to have sex for 12 hours straight, no. ESQ: Twelve hours seems like a lot. Sting can do it I guess.  BD: Sting and Trudie are on that. They got that down. We can let them have it and leave hope for us mere mortals on earth.  ESQ: The show raises the idea that we&amp;#039;re always jealous of our friends. Is that a generational thing?  BD: It is a generational thing. If you go on Instagram, it&amp;#039;s like people&amp;#039;s greatest hits album. Their vacations, pictures of their child, the best concert they&amp;#039;ve ever gone to. You&amp;#039;re getting this very glossed-over version of people&amp;#039;s lives, without seeing the grit. It&amp;#039;s natural for humans to look at that, the Photoshopped, filtered life and think, &amp;quot;Man, that looks nice. Why doesn&amp;#039;t my plate of scrambled eggs in the morning look that beautiful?&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s all contrived. We&amp;#039;re also so intertwined with each other these days, especially with social media, people&amp;#039;s lives are just in your face. It&amp;#039;s a natural thing to say, &amp;quot;Why does that look better?&amp;quot; Our parents&amp;#039; generation, they were just doers. They didn&amp;#039;t have that comparison, it wasn&amp;#039;t that blatant. They just lived their lives and tried to be as effective as possible.       ESQ: What&amp;#039;s Brooklyn Decker grit like these days?  BD: I deal with the same things a lot of people do. Especially in my career choices, it&amp;#039;s like, &amp;quot;Hmmm, when will I be employed again?&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s a looming question. I feel like when you see my Instagram, it&amp;#039;s like, &amp;quot;Oh, my new show is coming out, my cast is incredible!&amp;quot; But you don&amp;#039;t see the months of, &amp;quot;Oh, I&amp;#039;m auditioning, I hope I book that.&amp;quot; Everyone has their things coming up short in their lives, but nowadays, you have the technology to mask it.  ESQ: When you were growing up, what were the sitcoms you obsessed over?  BD: I was not allowed to watch television until I was 13 or 14 years old. My parents wanted me to be outside and in the woods. They never let me watch TV. I wasn&amp;#039;t allowed to watch MTV, so I never watched Real World. I missed out on a lot of big, &amp;#039;90s events, because of my lack of television. But when I was finally able to watch television, Friends I was a huge fan of. I loved Everybody Loves Raymond. My favorite show in high school was West Wing.  ESQ: A lot of interviews I&amp;#039;ve read with you like to ask you how a model becomes an actor. Have you noticed that? Is that an interesting question?  BD: I think it&amp;#039;s probably one of the more... topical questions. I get the question. I think people like change in people&amp;#039;s lives. Frankly, I stopped modeling four years ago. So, I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;quot;Yeah, I&amp;#039;ve been at this for a while now.&amp;quot; But I do get the question. I understand it.  ESQ: Do you ever miss the modeling life?  BD: No. Not even a little bit. I really wasn&amp;#039;t that great.  ESQ: What?  BD: I had one client that supported me and loved me and that was Sports Illustrated. Beyond that, I never booked a runway show, I never booked big fashion magazines. I never was really a hyper-successful model. It was never something that fulfilled me. I loved the travel, I loved the people I worked with. But I studied acting for a long time. I knew that&amp;#039;s what I wanted to do. I auditioned for years and years before I got anything. Once I had a couple jobs in a row, I just walked away [from modeling]. ESQ: I&amp;#039;d like to go over a few general things that people laugh at and you tell me if they are funny or not. Sound good?  BD: Okay. ESQ: Body parts. BD: They&amp;#039;re hilarious.  ESQ: Is there one in particular?  BD: Toes because they&amp;#039;re disgusting.  ESQ: Body sounds. BD: A fart, obviously. It&amp;#039;s the funniest body sound. Yeah.  ESQ: Sex. BD: I do think sex is funny, yeah.  ESQ: Curse words.  BD: I love curse words! I think they&amp;#039;re hilarious.  ESQ: Is there a favorite?  BD: I like the &amp;quot;F&amp;quot; word. It&amp;#039;s so versatile. It really is. It&amp;#039;s not allowed on network television, but I love using it in my day-to-day life.         A photo posted by Brooklyn Decker (@brooklyndecker) on Mar 27, 2014 at 9:32am PDT     Brooklyn Decker&amp;#039;s English bulldogs, who are funny to her.  ESQ: Animals.  BD: Animals are funny to me. But I have two funny animals. I have two English bulldogs and I find them to be hysterical. They snort and they&amp;#039;re gross and they&amp;#039;re not all that athletic in any way. But they&amp;#039;re really funny.  ESQ: People getting wasted.  BD: Eh, not so funny. A little buzzed can be entertaining. Wasted... that&amp;#039;s a lack of control. ESQ: Physical comedy: tripping, falling down, things falling on you.  BD: Funny. Always funny.  ESQ: Julia Louis-Dreyfus.  BD: Funny.  ESQ: Bill Murray.  BD: Hilllllarious.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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