One of TV’s most-loved female comedy stars of the past decade, Sarah Chalke is keenly aware of the talent she’s been surrounded with. Case in point: the Scrubs janitor. “Neil Flynn is one of the funniest people I’ve ever worked with,” she tells Starry Constellation. Flynn is such a master of improv, “it’s to the point where the scriptwriters will just write his line, and then in black it will say, ‘Or whatever Neil says.’ He goes off on these unbelievably hysterical tangents, where if you’re doing a scene with him it’s really hard not to break.” American audiences met the Ontario native as “Becky #2″ on Roseanne, when she replaced college-bound Lecy Goranson for the final 70 episodes. “I would sit there in awe of Roseanne, Laurie Metcalf and John Goodman, and just kind of watch what they would do with the script from the Monday table read until Thursday tape night.” The audience roared at their first scene together when Roseanne quipped, “You look different.” Sarah later costarred in a pre-SNL Andy Samberg web series, The ‘Bu, a Malibu parody of The O.C. But to most viewers, she’s Dr. Elliot Reid, an eight-year role that Scrubs bosses have kept fresh with various curve balls. “Sometimes if your line was like ‘I told you so,’ Bill Lawrence would come up to you and say, ‘Okay, instead of saying ‘I told you so,’ just make it a song and dance instead.’ It’s the best job I’ve had.”
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