"We were starting to repeat jokes" Zach Braff has said that he and the cast of Scrubs were “exhausted” by the end of the final season, admitting that they started to repeat certain jokes. Braff, who played J.D.
on the medical sitcom that aired from 2001 to 2010, said that he and his costars – Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes and Christa Miller – were “kind of fried” by season 9. “I miss laughing every day. Belly laughing every day was – that was the job.
And when that goes away, by the time nine years were over, we were sort of all exhausted by it,” Braff said on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast on August 13. “We were starting to repeat jokes. Everyone’s pretty fried,” he recalled of the role, which earned him three Golden Globe nominations and an Emmy nod.
“We would do insane hours that people don’t even do anymore. We didn’t really have much of a life outside of it. So we were just kind of fried.
” However, while stressing that concluding the series in 2010 was the right decision, Braff said that he’d definitely be open to revisiting Sacred Heart Hospital at some point in the future. “But now looking back, and there’s talk of reboots, and that’s a conversation, I think, ‘Oh my gosh. Being able to laugh – belly laugh – with these people again, would be a lot of fun,'” he said.
Zach Braff. Credit: Getty Images Admitting that the show “changed my whole life,” Braff then shared his conditions for a potent.