Does that ever seem like cheating for an improv actor?
No, I don’t think so. I like it. It did not really occur to me that it was based on awkward or discomfort until I read it somewhere and I agree with that. I guess that is true. I don’t classify it as comedy based on awkwardness or anything. It’s just a particular sense of humor. I like it though. I read that a lot of your lines on Scrubs were improvised and at one point, the writers just started typing “Whatever Neil says” on the script next to your character’s name. Is that accurate? That happened just twice I think. Knowing that the scene was open-ended and being on the show as long as we had, they knew that we’d be able to come up with something on the set. Especially scenes I had with Zach Braff. Very early on, we were comfortable altering the dialogue a little bit. Bill Lawrence, the creator, was all for it. He joked that if it was funnier, he’d get the credit. And Scrubs was famously supposed to end after its eighth season before ABC decided to order another season. Did the entir
