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Posted Dec 16th 2006 7:05PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, The Office, Celebrities
During last week's
episode of
The Office, Michael and Andy sang an... um... interesting rendition of John Mayer's "Your Body Is A Wonderland" to their new Benihana girlfriends. Of course, the show had to get the rights to the song before they could use it. Knowing that his work would be goofed on, John Mayer initially declined to have the song used on the program, one of his favorites. He later reconsidered, after he got some more information from producer BJ Novak... and asked for a Dundie.
Well, it worked, and John Mayer is now a Dundie winner ("
Tallest Music Dude"). That was a pretty clever move! Not only did he get his work on one of his favorite shows, but he also made his way into the annals of Dundie history. Nice work, Mayer. I commend you.
Posted Jul 11th 2006 8:23AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Talent, The Office
Some of the American characters on NBC's
The Office are going to come face-to-face with their British alter-egos! American executive producer Ben Silverman says next season we can expect to see Mackenzie Crook, who played Gareth; Martin Freeman, who played Tim; and Lucy Davis, who played Dawn on the American version of the show. These are essentially the alter egos to Dwight, Jim, and Pam. I think I'm most excited to see Dwight butt heads with militaristic Gareth, but I know my heart will be torn between Jim and Tim!
Unfortunately, show creator Ricky Gervais is not scheduled to appear on the next season of The Office. Too bad. I can only imagine the wonderfully uncomfortable conversation between David Brent and Michael Scott (Steve Carell).
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Posted Apr 28th 2006 11:11AM by Michael Sciannamea
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, OpEd, The Office
(S02E16) This season's first so-so episode of
The Office started with a great premise when half a joint is found in the company parking lot, and the
volunteer Lackawanna County Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Schrute conducts his full (and borderline psychotic) investigation
as to who is the drug fiend.
Michael tries to diffuse the situation because he admits that, at an Alicia Keys
concert over the weekend, he was handed the joint by a girl with a lip ring. Obviously, he's got a lot to lose if he
fails the impending urine test, so he is doing his best to calm Dwight down while espousing the evils of drug use to
the rest of the staff.
A subplot that seemed rather childish and didn't seem to go anywhere was Pam and Jim's
game of Jinx whereby they said the same thing at the same time, which somehow Pam wins and forces Jim not to speak for
the rest of the day until he can buy her a soda (I still don't get it.) However, there were some moments that they
looked into each other's eyes without speaking, and you would think their flirtation would come to some sort of climax
before the end of the season/Pam's wedding.
Continue reading The Office: Drug Testing
Posted Mar 16th 2006 8:33PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Web, The Office
It's as though
The Office is going off on a
tangent. This summer, while star Steve Carell is off
shooting
movies, some of the actors in the smaller roles will get their own web-only episodes of
The Office. There
will be ten, whodunit "webisodes" on
NBC.com starring the
accounting staff of Dunder-Mifflin. The premise of the series is that the accountants can't account for $3,000 and they
go on a mission to find out who's responsible. The series will star Angela, Kevin and Oscar, and will include special
appearances from Dwight (Rainn Wilson) and Phyllis. Should be cute.
Posted Feb 15th 2006 8:04AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Programming, The Office
Joey is making a surprise return to NBC, but it's
getting moved to Tuesday nights. From March 7-21,
Joey will air at 8 pm and then a
Joey repeat will
air at 8:30 pm. That means
Fear Factor is being bumped off the NBC schedule until this summer.
Scrubs
will air at 9 pm, followed by a new comedy,
Teachers, at 9:30. Don't worry. We'll get our back-to-back episodes
of Scrubs starting on March 28, when it airs at 8:30 and 9:00 pm. Your TiVo will figure it out.
Also, NBC has
figured out that
The Office is good. Really good. The network has managed to work around Steve Carell's
busy
schedule to add one more episode to the schedule, a finale that will air on May 11. Originally, the season was going
to end on March 30th but now NBC is going to play reruns through April and add that one new episode in May. I wonder if
Jim will crash Pam's wedding?
The Cheers episode Ken Levine's still writing in his head
Giveaway Tuesday: Fastlane - The Complete Series
Giveaway Monday: The X-Files: Revelations on DVD
