Friday is a 1995 American stoner comedy directed by F. Gary Gray and written by Ice Cube and DJ Pooh, starring Ice Cube as Craig Jones and Chris Tucker as Smokey. Set over one day in South Central Los Angeles, the film became a cult classic and one of the most quoted comedies of the 1990s. Smokey's Friday speech became a standalone meme clip shared for weekends, unemployment jokes, and doing-nothing plans, keeping the scene in circulation long after the film's release through reaction videos and soundboards.