Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford on Ch 5 Chicago News
Whoa. Blast from the past: the cast of Sports Night at the SAG Awards in 2000. [Part 2]
I will always love this show.
ALLISON JANNEY: My trailer’s been known as the party trailer. It’s decorated with lots of red and it looks like a den of iniquity. I like music. I like to dance. Some nights in the first season we couldn’t get our scheduling together. So most of the time we were hanging out in our trailers for so many hours it was unbelievable. And we were bored out of our minds. I brought my CDs and there was a compilation with a song on it, “The Jackal.” I memorized all the lines to perform it for Richard [Schiff], because I wanted to make him laugh. He became a part of it, the air drummer, the air saxophone player, the air everything. And he would make me laugh harder than I’ve ever laughed, seeming him do all these little moves of being this cool jazz guy.One night we brought Aaron [Sorkin] and Lew Wells and a bunch of people into my trailer and we did it for them. Aaron laughed so hard and the next thing I knew it was in the script. I was amazed that he was able to bring that into this show. They had to reshoot it because the first time, it was more like Allison Janney would do it, not like CJ. It was wild. I was just going crazy. And they said, “You can’t be so good at it. CJ wouldn’t be as good at it as you are.”The West Wing: The Official Companion, (p. 122)
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