We all know B.J. Novak as Ryan Howard on The Office (he's also a writer and associate producer on the series). However, long before that, he was sharpening his comedic skills on the unsuspecting patrons of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Give Me My Remote has the scoop, straight from Novak's MySpace: while in high school B.J. and his brother decided to swipe the cassettes used for audio tours at the museum and replace them with their own tour, complete with Chinese music and everything (the tapes were for the Chinese art exhibit). The boys recruited fifteen of their friends to sneakily replace the regular cassettes with the new ones, thus giving museum goers a tour unlike any other.
You can download the Novaks' audio tour via iTunes by clicking here. Trust me, it's worth it. This is one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-04-2007 @ 7:56PM
Bash said...
Now the real kicker would be a surveillance tape with museum guards watching the scene trying to figure out who just moved in their left foot...
*snicker*
With a small stack of tapes on hand for the exchange ^^;
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6-04-2007 @ 8:17PM
greg said...
Absolutely hilarious... thanks for posting this..
Greg
www.denvertvguy.com
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6-05-2007 @ 1:19AM
sindysays said...
Oh man, that's hilarious! I read about it on his MySpace, which is public, you know, so I don't see how a silly blog that likes to claim credit has the "scoop".
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6-05-2007 @ 2:23AM
Guffin GacGuffin said...
His brother actually also has some comedy background, having once been a part of the sketch comedy group Olde English: http://www.oldeenglish.org
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6-05-2007 @ 1:49PM
Porchland said...
Mildly funny. A bit of a letdown, actually, though I suppose it's hard to put myself in the position of someone who actually walked through the museum thinking this was legit until the odd comments started.
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6-06-2007 @ 12:52AM
Andrew said...
He talked about doing this months ago when he was on leno, old news.
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