How Much Improvisation Was Doed?

The script as written was always shot, because if it wasn't on the page, we may not get approval for it. The more improv that he and others did that caught the rest of us off balance, the smiles and the laughs came. Depending on how successful the scene was working, depending on how successful actors were able to improvise or writers were able to pitch new jokes, the scene would happen more. Our first assembly they called it was about forty five minutes. And when you think about running time on nbc, that was 22 minutes. On average, we had a double episode shot, and then they had to cut it down to 22.