When did he audition for it? Because he left at the end of the 13th season in 2008 so does that mean that he auditioned during the writers strike or something? I know that they brought on people like Casey Wilson and Mickayla Watkans around that time. He may have thought that the strike was going to knock out the season and that since he was going to be leaving the show at the end of the season anyway, there should be no problem.