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* In one scene of ''[[UHF (Film)|UHF]]'', Michael Richards' character Stanley, before his big morale speech on TV, was given a few general lines of nonsense in the script while he amuses the kids, and Michael ended up ad-libbing most of it in the shoot.
** A few scenes later, he appears again on TV with a completely ad-libbed scene, which begins with him eating a watermelon and soon dissolves into a silly bit of him playing with the "toy man" from his box of Corn Flakes. While not all of this is shown (as it is intercut with a scene of Weird Al's character and his friend), the deleted scenes portion of the DVD shows the whole thing, and "Weird Al" Yankovic (the star and co-writer of the movie) comments that "The great thing about Michael is you can turn on the camera and tell him to just go nuts for two minutes. Well here he is, doing just that."
* The famous "[[You Talkin' to Me?]]?" scene in ''[[Taxi Driver]]'' was written in the script as "Travis talks in the mirror" and the rest was improvised by [[Robert De Niro]]. [[Martin Scorsese]] was stooped just below the camera silently encouraging De Niro to keep going. What De Niro was saying is a common exercise used by actors to practice different interpretations of a similar phrase.
** The rest of the movie has this as well. The parts of Tom (Betsy's co-worker), Sport, Betsy and The Wizard were supposedly fairly underwritten in the script. The casting of Albert Brooks and Harvey Keitel led to lots of improvisation and expansion, with Keitel's role in particular expanding from a mere five lines to a larger scene of dialog that made him one of the most memorable aspects of the movie.
* In the DVD extras for the ''[[Lord of the Rings (Film)|Lord of the Rings]]'' film trilogy, the screenwriters Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens described how, for every fight scene, they would simply write something to the effect of "They fight like men", then hand the script over to Peter Jackson to fully block out the scene.
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{{quote| '''Bill Corbett:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|Art Carney does something funny... for the next ten minutes.]]}}
* ''[[Reno 911]]'' is all done improvisationally. Scripts set up scenes and indicate plot points; the actors come up with their own dialogue.
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* ''[[The Monkees]]'': The group was not only allowed, but encouraged to improvise, and gaps were often left in the script to facilitate this, especially where Micky Dolenz was concerned.
* [[Glee]]'s Heather Morris is said to do this during table readings, often playing on the previous dialog of characters. Brittany's one liners are sometimes penciled in after the initial readings.
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