The dude who’s been on Scrubs forever and wrote and starred in Garden State, Zach Braff is not too happy that his home state is now being associated with hilariously crappy MTV reality show, Jersey Shore. Apparently Zach feels like the state has just survived being associated with the mob for the rest of eternity because of The Sopranos, and said to Jimmy Kimmel Tuesday night, ”Jersey had a chance to be known for something else, and here comes Snooki.” (Side note: I would like to encourage you to read Snooki’s “biography” on MTV.com even if you’ve never seen the show. It’s pretty delish.)

While I understand that Zach doesn’t want New Jersey to be forever associated with orange, muscular drunks with anger management issues, I have to ask him this: Are lovey dovey romcoms about crazy families and Manic Pixie Dream Girls set to the sounds of all things “indie” really that much better? I’d have to say that long before Zach tried to make a deep cultural impact on all of us with what it means to be from New Jersey, there was someone doing it in a slightly less annoying manner than him. (I said “slightly”.) At least Kevin Smith movies were awesome when you were 15 and didn’t make you cry and feel like you’d die alone when you were 22. Just sayin’.

(the language in this clip may be NSFW if you work at a boring place. Sorry.)

Zach Braff (yum) is escorted onstage at Spike TV’s 7th annual Video Game Awards. Other winners and presenters included Olivia Wilde, my girl crush Tricia Helfer, and the cast of Jersey Shore onstage with Mike Tyson (my very soul cringes at the possible dialogue).

All that and more in the gallery!

Zach Braff, who loves the younger ladies, is seen here cuddling Lea Michelle, the star of Broadway’s Tony Award winning “Spring Awakening.” They are seen here boozing at the victory party for the hit musical at “Spotlight Live” in New York post Tony’s and I have a few spies that said they seemed very cozy.

Are these two stars getting cozy behind the scenes? Or is Zach just a big fan of the musical. Just asking.

I like the show Scrubs. You should too. But should the star, Mr. Zach Braff, get $8.4m clams to continue the show into its seventh season? In a word, yes. Given the success Braff attained with Garden St he’s delaying other big paychecks by staying. Plus, it hasn’t been that long since Seinfeld and Friends were pulling down a million large for each episode.

The slight difference is that Scrubs has low ratings whereas those two shows were beloved by the masses.

But I think it was Sir Rod Stewart (he’s gotta be a knight, right?) who said:

Never wait or hesitate
Get in kid, before it’s too late
You may never get another chance.

A final fact – Charlie Sheen gets that sort of money for Two and a Half Men which I wouldn’t watch if you stapled my ass cheeks to the sofa. So in that spirit we salute you Zach to the Braff. Just don’t make me pick up the check next time we lunch.

I’m glad Drew has moved past both the drugs and Tom Green and seems to be dating nice introspective guys who write movies to meet Natalie Portman.

Those are my kind of guys. And she was decent on SNL last Saturday too.

I of course speak of Zach Braff and Drew, who are rumored to be mingling though it was of course denied by her publicist. But that’s what publicists do. They would deny just about anything besides charity work and their clients liking gay folk.

So, wrapping up, If you’ve been in the business 42 years and are still barely 30 I wish you all the happiness in the world. Hugs for Drew.