When the lanky, soft-spoken Herb Melnick first wandered into Two and a Half Men, nervously adjusting his pastel shirts and flashing that unsure smile, he looked destined to be a throwaway gag—Judith’s “replacement husband,” the guy stuck in someone else’s emotional fallout.
And behind that improbable rise was Ryan Stiles, a comedian who understood something most actors never learn: if you can’t be the lead, you can still steal the scene—and then reshape your entire life around the freedom that comes with it.
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