“The Simpsons” and “The Birdcage” actor Hank Azaria has posted a moving tribute to Matthew Perry.

“A lot of us who loved him thought we’d lost him to drugs and alcohol a long time ago.”

So sorry for his loss, and ours.

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— Hank Azaria (@HankAzaria) October 29, 2023

Matthew Perry has died at age 54.

TMZ says the “Friends” star drowned in his jacuzzi. They also say no drugs were found around him.

Perry battled many addictions, substance and otherwise. He wrote a wry, telling autobiography last year and said he’d finally overcome his demons.

During “Friends,” Perry’s weight and appearance zig zagged back and forth as he tried to film the hit show without missing an episode. He co-starred with David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, and Lisa Kudrow.

Perry had no success beyond “Friends” once the show was over despite some efforts. He starred in a half baked adaptation of “The Odd Couple” on TV, and wrote an off Broadway play that he also starred in. The book brought him back to the spotlight but since then not much had been heard from him.

What a shame. He was so quick witted and witty, with great comic timing. His friends obviously loved him but he could not rise above his illnesses. Watching “Friends” reruns will never be the same.

Fan fairs and comic cons are nothing new. They’re everywhere. Celebrities set up card tables and charge long lines of fans some dough for autographs or signed pictures.

But a coming celeb fair in Pittsburgh shows how badly even famous people need money when their unions are on strike.

Steel City Con is coming up in Pittsburgh from December 8th to the 10th. Most of the celebs have been booked, and there will no doubt be the autograph hounds from Star Wars, Star Trek and Marvel conventions all dressed up and ready to go.

Alec Baldwin has just signed on for Steel City despite the threat of another indictment hanging over his head. He’s charging $135 — for photo ops and an unknown fee for autographs.

Kiefer Sutherland is charging a similar amount, and “Stranger Things” actor Jamie Campbell Bower will get $100 clams. (Can Kiefer need this money?)

In the $50-$60 range are Rose McGowan and Holly Marie Combs from “Charmed,” John Cleese, 84, from “Monty Python” and some people who I thought were above this kind of thing like Neve Campbell, Dermot Mulroney, and Giancarlo Esposito. But hey, everyone has to pay their Con Ed bill, so I can empathize!

These things go on all over the country, I’m told. The equivalent, of course, is Cameo, in which you can get a digital greeting from almost anyone for a price.

Again, rent is always due. Remember — 100% of all the money does not go to charity!

Buffy Saint Marie was always presented as Native American or Canadian, or we used to say Indian. She was also from Canada, but adopted by American parents.

Saint Marie came up with the folk singing craze, and centered herself in the world of Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. She covered their songs, and put Indian artifacts on her album covers.

The singer even won an Oscar co-writing the hit song, “Up Where We Belong,” in 1983 with her ex husband Jack Nitzsche (he’s dead now) and Will Jennings. She’s likely made a fortune from it.

SO this has gone for 60 years. And now the Canadian Broadcast Company has published a very detailed report claiming Saint Marie isn’t Canadian or Native American or Canadian, or Indian in any way. They’ve found her birth certificate from Stoneham, Massachusetts. They’ve interviewed her relatives, all of whom agree she was never adopted, her father was Italian, her mother was English and Scottish.

Yes, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus. Buffy Saint Marie is George Santos, and so many others, like Rachel Dolezal. Her life has been one excellent scam.

Saint Marie has published a piece on Instagram and a video on YouTube in which her wording is very careful. She doesn’t call her Stoneham family her “Birth family” but her “growing up family.” She says she doesn’t know what she is, although liar comes to mind.

Why hasn’t Saint Marie taken a DNA test? They’ve been easy enough to get for a couple of decades at least. I say, let’s put her on Henry Louis Gates’s PBS show and get to the bottom of this potential scandal.