Not to be truffled with.
First an article, and now a video of Steve Carell talking about his first Office writing gig on Casino Night. He channels a little bit of Michael Scott at the end of it.
To access the clip, go to the main NBC Office site and click the Feature Video link in the right column.
(For Mac users, follow the instructions here, and then enter this link in the Open URL window: mms://od-msn.msn.com/3/mbr/office_int_scarell_051106.wmv)
Thanks to Lori over at Northern Attack for the tip!
Steve Carell talks to Lisa Rosen of the L.A. Times about what it was like to write the upcoming season finale, Casino Night.
For one thing, he tried to get out of writing the episode at one point:
He had essentially one weekend to write the script, and his parents were coming to town for that weekend. So he went into Daniels’ office to try to get out of it. “I said I don’t know if I can give it my full attention, and I don’t want to do a half-baked job of it,” said Carell by phone from the set of “Evan Almighty” in Virginia. “But he is a very persuasive gentleman, and I walked out of the meeting not only still writing the episode, but filled with all sorts of hope and excitement about the episode.”
Read the full article here — which validates what the rest of the cast has always said — that Steve is the nicest, most normal kind of guy.
B. J. Novak (“Ryan”) has some upcoming comedy club appearances, as mentioned on his MySpace home page:
As always, these dates are also listed on the OfficeTally Calendar.
John Krasinski (“Jim”) will appear on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ tonight, May 9th.
Other guests: Lindsay Lohan, and Sergio Mendes with the Black Eyed Peas.
See a complete list of events in the calendar.
Jenna Fischer (“Pam”) and her best pal, Andy, make an appearance in People’s “100 Most Beautiful People” issue.
Steve Carell (“Michael Scott”) will make an appearance on ‘The Today Show’ on Monday, May 15th.
I will add this to the calendar when I get home tonight …
Milwaukee’s WKLH 96.5 radio interviewed John Krasinski (“Jim”) on Thursday.
John once and for all confirms that he is, indeed, the voice behind the Ask.com commercials!
Thanks to Andrea for the tip, who, by the way, is the same Andrea whose questions got asked at the beginning of the interview. Way to go!
Listen to the clip here. (no longer available)