SPOILERS: This post contains details about The Comeback series finale ‘Valerie Cherish’ More than 20 years after bringing Valerie Cherish into our living rooms, Lisa Kudrow said goodbye to the leading lady in a touching The Comeback finale. Ahead of Sunday’s concluding episode ‘Valerie Cherish’, the Emmy winner said “being able to put Valerie in the lens of Jane’s [Laura Silverman] camera was unbelievable” during her confessional in the final scene of the HBO mockumentary reality series, which she co-created with Michael Patrick King in 2005. “And Valerie never felt humiliated is absolutely true, and to me, it’s everything,” she explained. “It’s a little meta because the show itself, after the first season, people, actors, a lot of people would say, ‘Oh my God, that must have been really hard to do because it was so painful.’ And I just like blink, ‘Painful? I don’t remember.…