Earl' actors play in character on 'Celebrity Family Feud

The colorful characters of "My Name Is Earl" are winging it without a script for the first time.

"Earl" actors -- including star Jason Lee -- will play "Celebrity Family Feud" (8 p.m. EDT Tuesday, NBC) in character. This will mark the first time the cast has worked together in character without a script.

This particular "Feud" pits the series regulars -- Earl, Joy (Jaime Pressly), Randy (Ethan Suplee), Darnell (Eddie Steeples) and Catalina (Nadine Velazquez) against the show's popular recurring characters.

The opposing side includes Tim Stack (Tim Stack), Patty The Daytime Hooker (Dale Dickey), Tim Stack's Agent (Greg Garcia, who is the series creator), Kenny (Greg Brinkley) and Nescobar A-Lop-Lop (Abdoulaye Ngom).

Dickey wasn't so concerned about sticking her foot in her mouth while playing the "Feud." But she wasn't so sure about her alter-ego, the saucy Patty.

"I tell you, I was a little nervous about it," Dickey said.

She says Patty was a "little risque," and answering the questions in character was a new twist for her.

"We were trying to win money for our charity, but we were also trying to answer in character," she says, "so sometimes I didn't always give the best answers."

(E-mail Terry Morrow of The Knoxville News-Sentinel in Tennessee at morrow2(at)knews.com.)