<P> Joey is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, having refused to follow in his father's footsteps and become a pipe fitter . He started his acting profession doing stage work, introduced in the show's pilot episode by Monica and Chandler having seen Joey in a production of Pinocchio . Sometime prior to the start of the series, Joey also had appeared in a porn film, as a fully clothed extra . Joey also mentioned appearing in a play with trolls before getting the leading role of Sigmund Freud in the musical play Freud! where he was first spotted by his talent agent Estelle Leonard . She immediately got him a film role in the same episode as Al Pacino's "butt double"--a speechless role he later lost due to taking the part too seriously . Monica and Chandler also once discussed having seen Joey in a version of Macbeth, in which he was unable to pronounce most of the words . </P> <P> Joey becomes an "actor - slash - model" when he appears on print ads for the NYC Free Clinic, as a man named "Mario" who has a Venereal disease . He also did an infomercial for a device that lets you pour milk out of milk cartons; he played "Kevin", a man who had extreme difficulty opening the cartons without the use of the device . ("Kevin" also inadvertently choked on a cookie during the show .). This haunted him again when he appeared in the play' The King', where he was made fun of due to choking on a cookie . </P> <P> In Season Two, Joey continued his stage work, appearing as "The King" in a poorly reviewed (and never - named) play . Published reviews of his performance claimed he was "disturbingly unskilled" and that he achieved "brilliant new levels of sucking" in a "mediocre play" with "mindless, adolescent direction". Only days after these reviews came out, Joey gets his big break when he lands his first major role as Dr. Drake Ramoray on the soap opera Days of Our Lives . He had initially gone in to read for a one - shot role as a cab driver; it is implied that he got the recurring role of Ramoray by sleeping with the casting director . While still playing Ramoray, he also appears in a bit role as a dead man in the film Outbreak 2: The Virus Takes Manhattan, starring Jean - Claude Van Damme . </P> <P> Several episodes later, Joey costs himself the Days of our Lives gig when during an interview with Soap Opera Digest, he radically overstates and claims he writes most of his own lines . This angers the show's writers, who out of spite, "kill off" his character by having Dr. Ramoray fall down an elevator shaft . Joey takes this very hard and admits that his role on Days was the best thing that ever happened to him . </P>

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