If you ask The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins stars Tracy Morgan and Bobby Moynihan about whether they brought their improvisation experience to set, they’re quick to praise the show’s writing instead.
“The writing is so good, you wouldn’t perfect it,” Morgan told Mashable in a video interview.
“There’s not a super amount [of improv],” Moynihan said. “We’ll get to the end of a take, or we’ll do two takes, and usually on the third one, we’ll mess around a little bit.”
However, if you turn the same improv question on Morgan and Moynihan’s co-stars or show creators Robert Carlock and Sam Means, you’ll get nothing but praise for the SNL alumni’s improv skills.
Carlock and Means described wanting to keep Morgan’s improv moments in the show as much as possible.
During one of the talking heads, Morgan “described a watch as ‘sweet like bear meat,'” Carlock recalled. “And I was like, ‘All right, I don’t know what that means exactly, but we have to have that in the show.”
(Another Morgan line they hope to work into the show? “You don’t mess with New York. We killed King Kong.”)
Elsewhere, stars Daniel Radcliffe and Erika Alexander pinpointed how Moynihan’s improv elevated scenes.
“I love watching Bobby do improv,” Alexander said. “He’s like a weird dog.”
“What are you saying?” Radcliffe asked.
Alexander clarified, saying that if you told Moynihan, “‘Go fetch this joke,’ he’ll find it.”
“Now I’m with you,” Radcliffe said.
For more from the cast of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, including hints at Radcliffe’s exceptional physical comedy, watch the full interview above.
