Joel Kim Booster is scrubbing in.
The comedian, 37, is currently filming the long-awaited “Scrubs” reboot, 15 years after the medical comedy went off the air in 2010.
The original characters, including J.D. (Zach Braff), Christopher Turk (Donald Faison), Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke), Carla Espinosa (Judy Reyes) and Jordan Sullivan (Christa Miller), have all been resuscitated.
“I think there’s so much pressure on Zach and the rest of the OG crew and the OG writers and producers that came back for it because, listen, the fanbase is loud and powerful and knows what they want to see,” Booster exclusively told The Post while promoting his partnership with Cup Noodles.
“They want to see the show return to its roots, and I think that we really accomplished that.”
And with one month to go until filming wraps, the “Loot” star promises that “it really does feel like a return to form for the show.”
“It really is all the things that I loved about the show in its early seasons are they’re really circling back and they’re finding new ways to tell stories that also stay true to the tone of the original,” Booster continued. “I think they’ve struck the perfect balance of servicing all of those old elements that the fans fell in love with in the first place, while introducing a lot of new elements that make the show feel fresh and and current.”
The reboot will take audiences back to Sacred Heart Hospital.
“Scrubs” ran for nine seasons starting in 2001 and earned 17 Emmy nominations and four Golden Globe nods.
The sitcom took home an Emmy in 2005 for Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Series and again in 2007 for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series.
“Zach says, for him, the comedy has to be key, but the comedy has to be grounded in something real. And that is the strength of this show,” Booster told The Post. “That there is a sentimentality to it. There is an absurd humor. A lot of the dream sequences and fantasy sequences obviously are fantasy, but they’re all rooted in a real emotion, a real want, a real grounded sense of humanity that all of the characters at their core, even the biggest, sort of craziest ones at their core, have something that’s grounding them to a real recognizable humanity.”
That pearl of wisdom is what he’s “taken away from this experience.”
“Remembering that, yes, we want to tell a really great joke,” mused Booster, “but it has to be recognizably real for it to hit us.”
Working on “Scrubs” also takes him back to his roots.
“I watched the s–t out of that show when I was growing up. It was syndicated everywhere when I was in high school. I definitely have seen every episode, but they’re all out of order,” Booster said.
Now, the podcast host is re-watching the series in chronological order with his fiancé, John-Michael Sudsina.
“It’s so interesting because it’s bringing up all these memories. It’s crazy to be a part of a show that I watched for so long and is so beloved too. My partner likes to say that this is going to be the one thing that straight people know me from moving forward!”
Off screen, Booster is gearing up to tie the knot with Sudsina on New Year’s. While that is one party he’ll sit back and enjoy, the star is typically the person throwing the holiday soirees.
Partnering with Cup Noodles was “a match made in heaven for me,” Booster said, “because I not only have been to many bad holiday parties in my day, but I’ve thrown some amazing holiday parties in my day. So I think it really works.”
