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Ricky Gervais talks about The Office

Entertainment Weekly speaks to Ricky Gervais about some of his current projects. Ricky also talks a little bit about the The Office:

Are you pleased with the way the American version of The Office has evolved into its own show?

It’s my favorite sitcom. You try to make shows that you want to watch. I did with The Office, I’m doing it now with Extras. It’s the show you wish someone else had made, but I had to make it. With the American Office, it’s the best of both worlds because someone else made it, and it’s just how I wanted it. So it’s a joy.

Read more of EW’s interview with Ricky Gervais here.

Thanks to Matthew for sending this in!

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Happy Birthday, Steve Carell!

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To celebrate Mr. Carell’s birthday today, check out one of my favorite video clips of Steve from the OfficeTally Video Archive:

Almost exactly one year ago, Steve returned to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and the visit was hilarious — the awkward long silence at the beginning of the appearance alone was worth the price of admission. Just brilliant.

Watch the video here. And Happy Birthday, Steve!


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Dwight Schrute’s MySpace page

There was much excitement when Dwight Schrute (as penned by Rainn Wilson) joined the MySpace fray back in late February. Unfortunately, due to other commitments, Rainn shut down Dwight’s page shortly thereafter.

I managed to find Dwight’s old entries, and have posted them after the jump. Although he only posted five times, each and every entry exudes Schrute wit and wisdom.

Ah, the good ol’ days … enjoy!

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SuicideGirls interviews Paul Lieberstein

Daniel Robert Epstein of SuicideGirls.com interviews Paul Lieberstein (a writer for The Office who also plays “Toby” the human resources guy).

This is one of the best writing-centric interviews I’ve read in awhile.

Here’s an excerpt:

DRE: In the casino episode Michael went all in on the first in a game of Texas hold ’em and Toby had a pretty darn good hand, two Jacks, but it’s not even two kings or two aces.

Paul: It’s pretty clear that Michael was bluffing. It was a ridiculous thing to do. There was a very subtle little bit there because Toby is just willing to call him out. There was another scene with a suggestion box meeting. One of suggestions was “You have bad breath” and Michael said that could be for anyone and Toby said “Aren’t these suggestions for you?” That was past anything Toby had done before in terms of trying to insult Michael. It was a lot of fun saying that one little line.

Read the full interview here (warning: NSFW).

Thanks, Daniel, for sending this in!

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John in Elle magazine

I know this news is a little old for some of you Office fanatics, but I was trying to hold out until I could get my own copy of the magazine. No such luck …

John Krasinski appears in the September issue of Elle magazine. For a big beautiful scan of the article, head on over to Jenn’s post over at the LiveJournal Office community.

Update 9/4: peopleareshapes at the LiveJournal Office community has posted previously unpublished photos from the Elle shoot. Check out the photos here.

Icon courtesy of jessmccartney.

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Jenna’s MySpace bulletin

Did you MySpacers catch Jenna’s bulletin whiz by yesterday morning?

It read in part:

I’m currently shooting episode 3 of the new season of The Office and because I’ve been sitting behind my desk all day I only dressed the top half of myself. I’m wearing sweat pants and Ugg boots and it’s awesome! If only I could have done that when I was a real receptionist.

Remember that when you’re watching Episode 3 … ;)