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Those rumors that Amy Poehler might be starring in the upcoming spin-off of The Office are flaring up again. I think it's good news for the Boston College alum (woot!), as she's kind of ceded her comfy position as top fiddle on Saturday Night Live to other funny lady Kristen Wiig. Update: Not a spin-off, but a Greg Daniels series nonetheless.
Those rumors that Amy Poehler might be starring in the upcoming spin-off of The Office are flaring up again. I think it's good news for the Boston College alum (woot!), as she's kind of ceded her comfy position as top fiddle on Saturday Night Live to other funny lady Kristen Wiig. Update: Not a spin-off, but a Greg Daniels series nonetheless.
This Is Good News
Amy Ryan—she of the near-perfect Boston accent in Gone Baby Gone—will be reprising her HR lady role on the The Office for at least five episodes next season.
Amy Ryan—she of the near-perfect Boston accent in Gone Baby Gone—will be reprising her HR lady role on the The Office for at least five episodes next season.
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John McCain Has Heard of 'The Office'
John McCain's primary qualifications for the presidency are that he's old, he was tortured, and he's been a corrupt Senator for hundreds of years. Also he'd like you to know that he has a sense of humor, which is why he's The Daily Show's most-invited guest ever. On the show last night, McCain once again demonstrated how "hip" and "with it" he is by naming a character on a popular sitcom. One that is currently on-air, even! Not, like, Maynard G. Krebs or something. Jon Stewart desperately tried to get him to appear more presidential by making a joke he knew McCain wouldn't play along with.
The Org Chart From Thursday's Office
NBC posted Dwight Schrute's org chart from last week's episode of The Office (the one used to explain why Michael wasn't in charge of Stanley). My favorite bit is the fists of black power on all the African-Americans. [NBC.com PDF]
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The Secret Of Japanese Productivity
A government worker in Japan got in trouble this week for looking at porn at work. Specifically, his computer at his place of employment recorded 780,000 hits on porn sites in nine months. Assuming 22 work days per month, that's nearly 4,000 hits per day! Quite a feat. Even more impressive: he totally got away with in for nine months. More »
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The Office: Set Jim and Pam Free
Even though it dare not yet speak its name, we already know that NBC will try to spin-off former midseason replacement The Office, which aired the second new episode of its interrupted fourth season last night. What we don't know is who, if any, of the original cast members will be moving to the new venture. Executive producer Greg Daniels has already said that Dwight "I'm Not Going To Call Her" Schrute won't be coming along, and Steve Carrell seems sure to stay put as well. There is the possibility that they could create an entirely new group of characters since the show's comic formula is so solid, but why not take a chance with two co-workers whose journey seems to have reached an end? Letting two of the show's most popular figures leave the show would be a big risk, but stay with me here. What more can Jim and Pam accomplish in Scranton when even Michael has to ask, "Is that still going on?" Greg Daniels, if you really love Jim and Pam, set them free. If they come back, it's because the original show foundered without them. My reasoning after the jump. More »
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Hearst Newspapers Can't Afford An Office
In a cost-cutting move that is, frankly, kind of sad, the DC bureau of the legendary Hearst Newspapers chain has moved into the same office space as McClatchy's DC bureau [E&P]. "They just have a small area in the back of our offices, they have three rows of work stations," a McClatchy manager said. Your front line watchdogs of democracy, ladies and gentlemen. Among the new denizens of the cramped, back office workspace is 87 year-old Hearst columnist and prime Bush tormentor Helen Thomas. She really deserves better. But, death of print and all that. Below, a classic news conference clip of Thomas questioning the president about the Iraq war, to his discomfort. More »
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"That's What She Said": It Always Works
Everyone on the internet loves The Office. And many people on the internet enjoy making lengthy, obsessive YouTube montages of things they like. The benefit of Office boss Michael Scott's favorite catchphrase is that it saves idiots from having to create their own joke whenever there's an opening. ("That's what she said!") But why wade through the plot and subtleties of the show to get to those four magic words? So, we present to you, "That's What She Said," the YouTube montage. After the jump, the second best part of the show, Jim's facial expressions, once again stripped of context and presented with some sort of dramatic musical accompaniment. More »
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TV Shows Return, My Life Regains Meaning
TV IS BACK TONIGHT!! The Office! 30 Rock! Goodness and light have come and banished all the mirthless gloom from the world! On The Office, Michael and Jan have a dinner party. I love the episodes when they leave the, um, office. Like that episode where Jim has the party and he wears that cute sweater and his hair is floppy and... Anyway! On 30 Rock it's the return of "MILF Island"! An insider friend who works for the show tells me it's very, very funny. Which is ridiculous because that show is never funny. It's so awful and never makes me cry bittersweet tears of unadulterated bliss. Most of all, I'm excited to stop socializing with people on Thursday nights. It was getting exhausting and expensive! Much like our friend Alex Blagg, I can't wait to sit on my ass, eat pizza, and feel happy again. Some reminders of why we should all give thanks lie after the jump. More »
Hasty Promotions
A spin-off of The Office, the second-funniest show on television, has just been given the green light by NBC. More details are supposedly going to be announced later today, but early scuttlebutt is that the new series will follow Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson), the bizarre bobble-head loving assistant to the regional manager. He'll move to Los Angeles and befriend an Italian-American aspiring actor who misses his friends back home. [THR]
A spin-off of The Office, the second-funniest show on television, has just been given the green light by NBC. More details are supposedly going to be announced later today, but early scuttlebutt is that the new series will follow Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson), the bizarre bobble-head loving assistant to the regional manager. He'll move to Los Angeles and befriend an Italian-American aspiring actor who misses his friends back home. [THR]
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Small Newspaper Puts TV Star On Notice
Last week, British the Office star Ricky Gervais posted a video to his personal blog that both mocked his Office character and had fun at the expense of an entertainment column in the Lowell, Massachusetts Sun, paper for a town where Gervais was scouting locations for his new movie. Since then, the Sun columnist in question has replied to Gervais' video, seemingly in soft, celebrity-friendly tones, but also with some sentences that could be read as vaguely threatening: More »
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The Office Star Mocks Your Tiny Local Paper
Ricky Gervais, star of the original British version of deadpan TV comedy the Office, just started a personal blog and has already resorted to that old blogger standby, local media criticism. But Gervais' video sendup of the Lowell, Mass. Sun is, as you'd expect, far more entertaining than the local press commentary most internet cranks churn out. The comedian's short skit is delivered in the deceptively gentle tones of Gervais' Office character and mocks the character's own pomposity. At the same time, it nails the defining pitfalls of community journalism — the typos, excessive attribution, bizarre story placement, awkward prose — as Gervais dissembles the Sun's page-11 coverage of pre-production on his new movie, This Side Of Truth. Any hack who earned his stripes at a small-newspaper city desk will cringe in sympathy. Video after the jump. More »
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Wall Street Bonuses Biggest Ever, Again!
On Friday, CNNMoney.com warned us that some Wall Street employees would be seeing tragic, drastic cuts in their annual bonuses—up to 50% at some mortgage-related firms. Specifically, hard-working bankers at Bear Stearns, Citigroup, and Merrill Lynch were expected to be "hit hard" by all the ridiculously irresponsible lending and related business they've been practicing for the last couple years. But today brought good news for those Heroes of Finance! More »
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The Sexy Reading Habits Of The Petit-Bourgeois
This morning on the R train, a woman got off at the City Hall stop. She was middle-aged and heavyset, wearing a light green polyester shirt tucked into snug pinstriped pants. We imagined her sitting down at her desk in one of those anonymous government offices and answering the phones, as she's done day after day for the past however many years. We'll be sitting in an adjacent cubicle soon enough! Anyway, as she got off the train, we noticed she was reading a paperback book called In Bed With the Boss's Daughter, a book that was described by one Amazon reviewer as "sexy & titillating," and by another as a book "where sexual tension vibrates on every page." Ahem. Amazon also offers you the option of adding this book to your Baby Registry.
Is it any coincidence that the movie Ratatouille could, possibly, be pronounced "Ratatwee," and the film seems to have found special favor with a particular brand of anthropomorphism-loving hipster?
