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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Law & Order
brislack — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 01:39 AM)
Jerry Orbach was one of my favourite characters in this very long-lasting show. I particularly enjoyed his one-off sarcastic remarks, and often wondered if they Were ad-libs. Or did the sciptwriters know his character and include them?
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scrabbler1 — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 06:42 AM)
I don't know for sure if this happened the way I hoped it would, but I have a small story which may answer your question.
Back in the late 1990s, when A&E held the rights to L&O, we had a message board like this one for L&O fans. Once, an A&E moderator posted a thread called, "Ask Jerry" where we could post questions for Jerry Orbach by a certain day and he would answer them. I asked the question you raised and his answer was this: During the script read-through, he would ad-lib a funny quip once in a while. If the writers liked it, and they sometimes did, then they would leave it in the script. He didn't cite any examples which would have been a nice touch.
Also back in those years, I owned a VCR and taped the episodes from the first ~10 seasons, later creating several Word files with Lennie's funny lines. I managed to retain those files.