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A person off-screen tells her to read the line again, this time more excited. She ends up reading the line several times, before she gets upset and storms off the set.

\"You know what, I'm not fooling around anymore,\" she says as she walks away.

Amy Gravitt, the executive vice president of HBO and Max comedy programming, called the character of Valerie Cherish a survivor.

\"On the 20th Anniversary of her debut, Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow have brilliantly scripted her return to HBO and we can't wait to see that,\" Gravitt said.

Season 3 of \"The Comeback\" will debut on HBO and HBO Max in 2026. It begins production this summer.

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