Chris Serico • The Journal News’ Remote Access blog • Sept. 18, 2008 • Photo: NBC

Chris Serico: Blooper reels only tell part of the story. What regular cast member is most likely to laugh during a scene and which scene from Season 1 was the most difficult for each of you to get through without laughing?

Zachary Levi: That’s a great question.

Joshua Gomez: That is great. We’re actually probably - and the funny thing is we’re both equally prone to laughing.

ZL: Yeah.

JG: Then also the follow-up to that is both equally prone to slapping each other across the face to stop us from laughing. That seems - that’s our normal cure-all.

ZL: Yeah …

JG: When it’s about four or five times - if we go through about four takes and we’re like crap, crap, crap, right, stop, stop, stop - if it’s about four or five times, slaps are coming. And it usually surprises the crew because they’re loud, they’re hard and they’re for real. I kid you not. This kid’s got mitts on him and they - so yeah. I don’t know. Well…

ZL: I think - you know, I couldn’t tell you, I think we’re all equally as prone to laugh just because we’re always having a great time. But I will tell you the person - I think the person who has the hardest time getting the giggles out is Yvonne. If Yvonne gets going, she’s done. You got to cut. We just got to take a moment because of course, you know, Josh and I have this method that we’ve worked out of just beating each other. And pain normally helps take away the happies. But - and then as far as a scene, oh gosh, I mean, there were so many scenes that we were busting up - one in particular for me was in Chuck versus the Marlin, the Episode 13 of last season when Adam and I go in to confront Scott and Vik — Lester and Jeff — about where the Marlin is and they’re playing the hard ball and then they dive in. And then Vik, who is - he’s just - in my opinion, he’s so underutilized. The man is so talented. But, you know, hopefully he’ll get some good episodes to really sink his teeth into. But he goes off on this riff about how they were at Bennigan’s - at Bennie’s.

JG: Oh that’s right.

ZL: And, you know, had too much to drink and all that. And he had - I mean, Vik’s got takes for days. He could ad lib and riff, and just go wherever and he had all these great things worked out. And I couldn’t - you know, thank god for half of that scene the camera was on my back because I had a grin from ear to ear. I could not stop laughing. And so that - yeah, for me that was probably that scene.

CS: Thanks, guys. We’ll always have Omaha.

ZL: Oh, we will always have Omaha.