Close friends with Scrubs and Spin City producer Bill Lawrence since
they were roommates in the early 1990s. Lawrence credits his friendship
with Winston as the inspiration for two friendships depicted on his
television programs: J.D. Dorian (Zach Braff) and Chris Turk (Donald
Faison) from Scrubs and Carter Heywood (Michael Boatman) and Stuart
Bondek (Alan Ruck) on Spin City.