Neil Flynn's best known to TV audiences for roles on 'Scrubs' and 'The Middle,' but the Waukegan native busy beyond those roles, as one-fifth of the 10-year-old improv troupe Beer Shark Mice. Flynn returns home with the troupe for TBS' Just for Laughs festival June 16 and 17. Photo provided.

Who says comedy is a young man’s game? Waukegan-native Neil Flynn, an alum of iO and The Second City, was 40-years-old when he finally found a national audience as the sarcastic janitor on hit comedy series “Scrubs.” Now he’s in the shoes of another same blue collar character, playing Mike Heck,...