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Sarah Wright has joined the still-untitled CBS comedy pilot from Friends scribe and producer Scott Silveri. The series will focus on a group of friends who hang out an all-night diner. John Cho, Phillip Vadem, Leslie Grossman, Josh Meyers and J.D. Walsh will play diner patrons, and Wright will play a waitress who works the graveyard shift in order to spend time with her son during the day. She previously appeared on 7th Heaven and The Loop.

And yes, as I and others have already pointed out, the plot does seem awfully similar to Friends.

Over on FOX, Jana Marie Hupp (Ed) is replacing Andrea Parker in the untitled comedy pilot from Victor Fresco (My Name is Earl, Life on a Stick). Hupp replaced Parker after Parker came down with laryngitis.

I think a real actress would have learned sign language and tackled the role anyway, but whatever.

Actors Jay Mohr and John Cho have both joined separate untitled comedy pilots for CBS.

Mohr's comedy pilot, from Will and Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, centers on two friends and writing partners, Mohr (the straight one) and Brian Austin Green (the gay one). The pilot is based somewhat on the professional relationship of Kohan and Mutchnick. Jessica Capshaw and Vanessa Lengies round out the cast.