The Office PaleyFest LA 2007: Full Conversation

you my god this looks like the whole staff of the regional branch of a dying paper and well in the spirit of the show I thought we would start with a really awkward now with with the panel this big these are gonna be free balls so please jump in as you have comments insights snarky comments you know I would like to know given the show is it's obviously a very different kind of forum for a half-hour comedy and you know it is funny it is laugh out loud funny in parts it's it's got a lot of you could really tell in the screening of this episode you got the awes you got the guffaws you got the applause lines it really is it's really kind of quite a finely crafted show tell me about the writing process are you a show that likes are you sure the writes in the room largely do you write separately okay well it depends they showed that the the cocktails episode was one that's I don't think we rewrote it at all and other times it comes in and we rewrite it a lot and but I think we spend the most amount of time breaking the stories and figuring out what should happen and we probably spend that's probably how we're different from most normal shows I think we spend a whole lot of time figuring out what will happen and less time polishing the lines perhaps it almost seems to be like almost a serialized comedy if you will in that there's very much you know the plot the storylines of what's going to happen next with Pam and Jim and Roy and all the various elements Michael and Jan so it sounds like you really map out those arcs you know where these relationships are going over the course of a season or the course of a chunk of a season of course of about three or four episodes ahead yeah we try to we try to have some sense of where we're going because it makes writing a lot easier but there there's a lot of like emergency what the hell's gonna happen now sessions that we have I mean we spend like we spend eight or ten weeks I think before we even start shooting just sitting around and talking about what the what's gonna happen to Michael and what's gonna happen at Jim and Pam and all that stuff and and that gets you to about the middle of the season and then you're screwed and you know we have to regroup in and you know it's a I at this point I mean by this point in the year you know we've been a month up to shooting and we know everything that's gonna happen but two weeks ago I don't think you could have said that so they're very different types of episodes the first half following the pre-production our little polished gems that we know everything is going to happen as soon as we run out of those which happens really quick then it's just panic seem fly by the seat of your pants all kind of things and they're equally funny how how are the confessional not not the confessional but the moments where the people are addressing the camera the characters are dressing the camera are those you know word-for-word scripted are the actors now embodying their characters so much that they can vamp them or are they well even from the pilot we have the actors come up with their own stuff a lot of times in the that's I think they're probably the area that has the most you know original generation of stuff from the actors and we if they if they are feeling less than inspired there is a complete script to to you know think everybody could do it and then oftentimes some of them enjoy you know making stuff up those we call them Talking Heads and those are the best things to shoot because they're really easy because it's a camera on a tripod and an actor sitting you feet away and we yeah we do what's written in the script and then they they say let me try this and they try something and we make up jokes on the set and and I don't think rain has ever not given for example an alternate version of one it's really but they're easy to shoot you can shoot a hundred of them in ten minutes you know and so they get to like goof around it have fun and the writing staff has the same kind of desire to see a lot of their extra stuff in so we have something called the candy bag which is maybe in the script one talking head one in the contest of everybody trying to write them and some of the it's like a minority opinion in the Supreme Court there's some other you know there's some other talking heads hitter thrown in and also filmed I remember when we were shooting the pilot and Greg called me up at home one night before work and I thought he was gonna fire me I really did because executive producers don't usually like call the actors at home like the night before unless it's bad but he called me up and he said so Jenna tomorrow we're gonna do some of your Talking Heads and I was just thinking maybe you could talk a little bit about Roy maybe where you think you guys started your relationship I don't want to give you any ideas I just want to see what you can come in with just we'll ask you about that relationship and you can just talk about it and it's kind of when I knew that I was on a really special show that valued actors input and we were brought in to the creative process right from the beginning and we still do that we still someone will ask me BJ one time asked me if there was like any sort of significant story from my childhood that could lead into a Pam story and I told him a story about reading a choose your own adventure book about a girl who had a tower in her house and it made me always want a house with a tower and he used that story and turned it into a story for the Boys and Girls episode about Pam always wishing she had a terrace and so they really include us at school the long-range plan is to have them do it all by themselves we worked like two hours a day how did tell us how that how it came about that so many of the writers and producers behind the scenes talent came in front of the camera well that was a little plan and are we really trying to be briefed on that but I'm a big fan of a lot of English comedy and it seems like over there especially the actors and the writers are the same people like Monty Python or this the original English show this was based on was the start was the writer and director and so when I went to hire the writing staff I had hired them all and writer performer contracts and I was looking for people who could could do some performing - and and when we looked at the the actor staff hired a lot of improv people who could kind of make up their own material so it was kind of were like right in the middle in between both camps for those either kind of do both roles was it was that invigorating an idea that a show that would really want that and and you know seek that from from writing staff or act seek actors to really be creative input was that exciting - yeah I'll give an experience just watching Paul develop from the first time you came in and it was almost an an inside joke among us how amusing it would be to have Paul on a scene you know it looks so great to be so funny and in it out of the park so many times in a row that it was like it was he's taking steroids yes it was suspicious but actually this is a true story we shot that first scene in the diversity of it so it was the first show up to the pilot right and we shot a couple scene one thing when Paulie said one line Kevin Reilly the president nBC saw the dailies and said who's that redheaded guy we won't get him in the show more and now he's toby flenderson I was surprised to be cast because I just came out here with Adrienne for comedy writing and it was funny because Gregg hired me off of my portrayal of Ben Affleck which is like pretty much 180 degrees from Kelly Kapoor it was like the dizziest girl like girl of all time so I like that Gregg saw something in me besides this like super butch girl portraying a guy who's 6-3 and kind of an idiot not Ben Affleck is it the way we see a girl in you almost mute Amish guy yeah I want to know how did he see Ben Affleck and you portraying him on stage were you portraying Ben Affleck yes I did a play called Madden Ben when I was in my early 20s that's how Greg hired me right Ben I feel like I should blackberry you here but before you embarked on office you'd obviously had an interesting experience with another British adaptation of a show called coupling that didn't work out quite so well for NBC what was it in the original BBC office that made you think that made you want to try it again and made you think that this one would click with American audiences well Gregg was a huge reason that I wanted to go adapt it and finding an opportunity to draw Gregg Annie was someone I had always wanted to work at with and using the office to kind of create a building block for this exact kind of comedy because there's no question if we hadn't had that underlying material there was no way this kind of concept of a no laugh track faux documentary would ever get to air and the underlying material was fantastic and it had a universality to it in kind of that dead-end work place but where Gregg and I also really responded as we saw this opportunity for a character and potentially an American actor to kind of create a new Archie Bunker which I think Steve has just you know owned and brought his own personality and vibe and energy and and the whole show kind of lives in this very edge space around the office and around issues like race and class and sexual orientation and it does it all through comedy very much in the way that Archie Bunker did you know 35 years ago and there's not anything else really exploring those themes and both Greg and I just responded to that underlying material knew it would be a way in which we could get a network to buy into something that was totally different and then it started to attract this unbelievable roster of talent both on the writing directing and performing side and and then the whole melange is really you know in an even Ricky and Stephen who originally you know had had some concern they come in and they've even written an episode for us and have you know beyond embraced where it's gone and I think what Greg and I always felt is those original fans of the office those shows ended you know over three years ago and those fans could find you know what they wanted in this show and then we were going to hopefully and we did introduce it to a whole world of people who had never been exposed to it that's how it got sold that kind of pitching a lot more so than my muttering and yeah it is I mean this show in particular it is I mean it is distinctive for right now on American television when you think about you know cheers a Mary Tyler Moore Show I mean these are workplace comedies where people from disparate backgrounds get together work together towards some common end and there's just until this show came on there just wasn't it just wasn't a whole lot on you know on main stream broadcast primetime television that was in that setting and I think it's one of them probably one of the fertile areas that that you all can mine is that kind of that the office being that another world where you're supposed to be polite you can't freak out you're not certainly not supposed to say you know inappropriate racially tinged and things to people and yet you know it happens that's why there are HR people in every office I mean that must be a real fertile ground for you all to play with and I have to worry about every other show doing your plotline awkward pause Randall tell us about I mean it must be quite a lighting challenge for you in particular cuz you do a great job of making these people look like they're got bright lights on them but it also is you know ready for HD and DVD treatment is that is there a sort of special tricks that you use to get that it's it's it's kind of a we're trying to make it look good but not too good and I think the idea that you know this office is this oppressive workplace I still try to keep it looking you know quite oppressive and using very very flat light on people because just just to make it not look like such a dynamic place so you know it's a delicate balance of making it look good for HD but not making it look too good for for an office place because these people I don't know how many people who are working in an office but okay but you know I just it's quite a an oppressive little place to be for that many hours in a day I think I've worked in offices and you know what and Graeme Greg and I also you know I work you know finding one of the things your question before and I don't think I think everyone probably want to talk to the cast but the the finding was exactly my last work but one of the I came out of reality television and to your earlier point about how the show got on the air and knew Randall very well he was somebody in that world we had wanted to work with and we were trying to Greg and I you know talk through with Terry or and how we would create a look for this show but not only that the fact that reality television had existed kind of enabled us to create a form that was mocking it and that's what all those Talking Heads are based on all as you call them testimonials that's directly from shows like Big Brother and survivor and Randall came out of that world and he really helped us engineer that look we didn't go to the database of traditional situation comedy people we went to Randall who really helped us shape that look and he's out there you know in shorts looking like it's the bush confused things where I'd survive her sometimes but incredible what he did in terms of that the thing about Randall that I just want to add to is that in addition to directing episodes and being the DP he is the man holding the camera and he becomes a character in the show because Randall has an enormous amount of judgment and leeway about where he's looking and often that adds a tremendous amount of comedy is the timing of the guy choosing to look over here see what this person thinks and back and forth and so he's definitely like a hidden character in the show what one last thing that when when we the first season we shot in a real office with all the constraints of a real office with ceilings that are that are 9 foot high and and then we moved on into into a studio and we built that exact same office the same shape the same ceilings that are nine foot high there's no room to swing a boom and it's kind of a it's it's a tricky place to film but all those difficulties and all those constraints that we have and there was brought over to the studio where we could have made it easier the fact that we didn't make any any easier I think always makes it a richer show and you know the more difficult a shot is to get I always think the richer it looks and the real also from an actor's perspective I think that's a really exciting thing about about the show because a lot of times you'll do shows right and they'll do your close-up and then they'll do someone else's close up and and unless you're you know with this with this show it literally the camera can be pointing this way in one minute and then swung all the way around to behind him and you just you have to always be on your game and prepared and completely in the moment and which is so fun and so exciting for all of us because I think I don't think I don't think we ever we're surprised as often as as often as the audience it explains a lot of how you get that real natural sense of you know shock or you know get that camera out of my face look Steve you've played a lot of doofuses how is Michael Scott special in the pantheon of dude how long did you think about that question I'm going to ask him about the pantheon of dude I think he's a man who clearly lacked self-awareness and I've always said that if he even caught a glimpse of who he really is his head would explode and some actually ricky said about his character and i think it applies to Michael Scott too is that if you if you don't know a Michael Scott you are Michael Scott last thing I'll say this evening it's all I am prepared oh it's it's it's really fun to play obviously because he can pretty much get away with saying anything and the way the writers have created the dialogue he can he can say the most incredibly offensive things and yet he he ended up himself I don't think is an offensive person I don't think the the season opener this year was gay witch hunt I really liked this episode a lot because it spoke to the fact that Michael is not a homophobe but he just doesn't understand the world and there are two very very different things it's not it's not that he is intrinsically racist or homophobic or sexist he just doesn't have a frame of reference he doesn't he doesn't really he's not capable of understanding and and once he does glean some understanding he misinterprets it and it becomes something else altogether but I think at least though the way I feel about the character is that he has a decent heart he's a decent person and he's just trying his best right trying to getting there is there is the yeah I would love to know what kind of notes if any you got in that episode in the climactic lip well lip lip touch moment that has to be the first a full-on boy on boy kiss at 8:38 8:30 p.m. on the lad nominated by the way was that caused the network any pause well it wasn't actually in the script and I'd like to recreate it for you he he would that Michael would kiss Oscar on the you know Oscar would turn his head and he would kiss him on the cheek and so we did several takes of that you know and we're you know a bunch of us are in the conference room watching and and then once Steve doesn't let Oscar turn away and we're like and he gets closer we're in the scene acting as people watching you know their their character boss yes you know this character and then he gets closer and closer and it's it gets so creepy no longer it's a now we're just sitting there as people watching like our kind of real bar this one of Paul I knew it when he was like they reached a point where he just went too far I'm like this yeah not doing it everyone's laughing but the cameras on us deliver able to use because everyone was just dying it was weird linen Sudan and so I feel I did on my right thigh I mean did you have to like remind NBC hey we just won the Emmy to get this I mean because at some point they must have seen it and I won't believe they let it pass without comment they're really the really hard part for me was that without our real knowledge or consent they were promoting the season premiere as the ending of this casino night romance story what's gonna happen with Jim I mean this lush you know ad campaign with with violins and everything and I knew going you know I was seeing these ads and I knew what we had coming for this horrible feeling there there's also an element and there's also an element to the show this is actually you know quite serious and does kind of speak to the art our times right now in an era when you know CEOs make 300 times what the average worker bee in an office does it seems like you guys in the characters of Dwight and Roy and Angela the a lot of the characters Jim in some ways that there is a almost tapping into a kind of an anger about the kind of you know income gap or whatever you want to call it in this country although Michael only makes about 6% hey it might not even be so much income but just situational I mean you know people in this business that are lucky enough to work in a creative business and do what they love you know so this should be required viewing just to see what you know the vast majority of the country has to deal with on that nine-to-five basis is that something you think about or just came out naturally in the in these crazy characters like Dwight that you've constructed come on Dwight have something angry to say I don't know I just you know what was the question I take great pride in my haircut that I have for the show I don't know much about class through the structure of the semiotic relationship between don't know I'm just okay I really don't have an answer to that someone take this she also mentioned Roy well I guess he's angry yeah he's he's stuck in a rut and you know he's angry about his situation his brother is angry about those jet skis jet skis oh say I answered phones at 1-800 dentist for two years and I worked in the call center and I also worked in the mail room and customer service and it's such I mean you know there's good people there and they provide good service and all but there definitely are days where you're just punching in and out and I saw the whole hierarchy especially in the mailroom those people know all your business so and I definitely relate to that when I play Angela Martin and how serious she takes everything I think you know for Dwight I you know I said early on to Gregg I remember saying to him or sending him an email like very early on like I just want to be careful that Dwight is not just this like annoying villain and and and Gregg sent me like this page long ode to Dwight describing how he viewed him and his role in the office and it's I really should find it somewhere and put it on the Internet's the even who's talking about how Dwight has this adolescent love of hierarchies and that's always stuck with me and if I ever get a little like ungrounded in a scene or you know what am I playing here like Oh adolescent love of hierarchies right and I'm right and I'm right there so that's kind of I don't see it Dwight is angry at the system I think I see him just loving the system and he would have made an excellent Nazi okay Oscar can do that alright what about Michael Scott when he says things like you know this is this offices the American Dream and and makes his his cliche written speeches does he believe that does he believe it or does he feel like he needs to say that cuz he's the boss again I think if he didn't believe it he would die he's like he's he he's a shark he needs to keep swimming forward or he will die he that's I believe he goes home at the end of the day and prepares his comedy bits he thinks about what version of the same tie he's going to wear the next day I think he lives for that yeah and I I think he truly believes it because it's it's one of the few things he that is tangible to him and that he can hold on to I've been hogging all the time we're gonna switch it to Q&A now there's gonna be microphones people running around and you're looking for the microphone I just wanna add something that what he was saying that's why you write things as we see the documentary are we ever gonna get you know an episode where or he'll of theatrical film where we get to see this long in the works of documentary not as long as we can have ideas without seeing this as soon as that runs dry I think we'll see the documentary alright got one right here my questions for the producers I know that you've talked about how you made a choice about drowning grounding the show in a real town so that would have that sort of extra flavor I'm curious to know because I actually grew up in wilkes-barre so all the sort of differences stick out to me but obviously you can't stick to the exact truth and let it get in a way of the writing so how faithful do you feel you kind of need to be to the area and how much do you realize that that's just a small percentage of the population who's actually going to sit there and go there are no trains or something like that I think that firstly don't have any we we have a deck of playing cards look that has all sorts of Scranton sites on it and sometimes when we're looking for ideas we will like deal each other cards and go oh the coal mining museum thank you but I think that the artistic point of it is just to make it specific so that it it feels more realistic and it's part of the whole Oh documentary aspect of trying to be as real as possible have you got any from like the stant the Scranton Chamber of Commerce closely with them yeah they love us they want to raise it I did a little uh parents at the the mall at steam town and I tell you it was it was extraordinary they I was driven around the city of Scranton in a stretch Hummer by the mayor I got Greg on the phone and passed the phone over to Greg so he could talk to the mayor he was pleading with him to come film in Scranton but they are so gaga in that city for our show I mean it is I was like I felt like Justin Timberlake I mean it was they were a line stretching out around the mall down the street and they you know I had mentioned on a radio interview like I was talking about Dwight's haircut and I was like oh they should offer $6 Dwight haircuts at the mall big banner the white haircut six dollars like these fans come there like five guys you all got Dwight haircuts like they're like it was crazy but the the city of Scranton loves this show we feel like they oh I was made an honorary sheriff's deputy well I just have to go pick up my badge because they have to take up photo of me and then I was made an honorary police officer of the city of Scranton and not to be outdone I was made an honorary mall security and I have my badge from the mall at Steamtown so but they they just loved it loved the show and they loved all the details they liked there's poor richard's it's in a bowling alley you don't want to go there you know but for one wrong turns white definitely could have been mall security is there gonna be a Scranton ah City CD or iTunes release that really sucked that the police tried to outdo me a couple days yeah yeah there's gonna be released right Ben yeah as soon as actually sting gave me a call the other night and asked me to open for them on their tour so we're trying to work out the split at the gate listen I I do have a question but I just want to say I'm out here representing MySpace I want to thank Jenna and and and Brian everybody that blogs because we love you guys and you've made us like creepy freaks for you guys my question is in Benihana Christmas the two waitresses and then I took their makeup off when they were at a party so I'm like confused what the whole plan was for that well originally we were going to asked we have some very attractive women who were waitresses at the at Benihana and the plan was that that you you knew they went up and approached them and then they came back with sort of more average-looking waitresses when they arrived at the party the two women who played the waitresses were so pretty you know that that we didn't end up making it a sort of joke right you know that you pop didn't really play as a joke from these hot women to these other women but that was the intended joke originally they left with the wrong way with other like a one grade below where they attempted was the idea and then it turned into kind of a test of racism on the Internet because a lot of people thought that the point of it was to see if anybody noticed that they were different a lot of people were like oh my gosh my racist they didn't notice that they were different like oh and then you know but wasn't the intention wasn't the intention way way up there in the back okay I guess I have a question for rashida Jones actually I just want you know some of us are on Team Karen sorry and I'm just curious like what's it like to come in to a show like this you know when people are automatically going to be rooting against you because you know they've fallen in love with this company over two seasons is that a new kind of challenge for you or talk a little bit about that or I'm dumb thank you for asking um it's been I was such an amazing experience just in general but I was terrified I had anxiety before the show aired because I just didn't know how people were gonna respond to me I was afraid I was gonna go out and people were gonna like launch eggs at my face and and just not be psyched about me and and I also you know I was a huge fan of the show before I was on it and like I was rooting for Ben so you know it put me in a weird position but but because the writers are so good you know they made me likeable I'm a horrible person in real life they did a really good job of making it confusing for viewers to I think I mean I know that people are just like Pam Jim loyalists and I never ever expected to break that like the fact that anybody is rooting for me at all makes me so happy but it's been it's been challenging and really interesting and like it makes it keeps me on my toes because I have to like remember to kind of like make it a full character however you do that or you know do them justice do they're ready justice because you know it just it provides like a good layer of complexity for for the show but thank you for everybody who supported well Karen is probably been a great addition and you know it just enhanced the character of Jim giving him you know yet even more choices you know I mean he seems like someone that is just you know not it doesn't quite belong is a little too smart for this world and and Karen seemed where is anyway smart he's shooting that George Clooney movie sorry I interrupted that's a good segue into the question about it how yeah you know I'm certainly not the first to mention that the cast certainly over the second season and now into this season I mean you guys just seem to have gelled so well not not unlike a real office where people are you know like each other and have worked together for a while and really get into a rhythm and know what they're doing and everybody knows you know knows what their what's expected of them is that is that a feeling that you all have had now after as you're you know cruising toward the end of season three we hate going you know we I got a I'll say for myself we all get along really really well like even outside of the set and I think it comes from us all sort of wanting to do this show that we believed in that not a lot of people believed in doing the pilot because a lot of people were fans of the original they're like why are you doing that I mean I remember my agents say you want to go in on this I'm like yes I think this is gonna be funny you know and I think we all got to see it grow together so we're all like proud of something that we built you know and I think that helps us all have this common bond that we all you know I'm Plus this is such a good group of people to work with I've worked in real offices before and you know you get to work in the morning and you look around at the people who are there and you go like damn nobody bad on the way here and with this group I don't feel that way when I get back glad to see them in the morning but it's ironic that I have to play the part of a person who has to act like oh damn nobody died so you know it's a change I also want to say that there's this as an actor there's this great thing that has happened with the cast and in it and from being in a lot of shows and productions stuff like that it really takes an enormous amount of trust to develop this what has happened which is there's kind of an actor shorthand that we have with each other and I won't it's not like we direct each other but you there's enough trust to be able to say to someone you know oh can you hold off and just doing that for this one second because I just want to do this one thing with this line or maybe you could just try this and someone say yeah can you hold up and and that that's really hard to achieve with a large number of actors but we but we have that in a way that's very just in service to the material and and I think that that's a really special working environment for actors to be in a situation like that and I just like to add on top of that because I really agree with rain and that I really think that comes from Greg Daniels who said tone on the set that is so extraordinary and it'll in the sense that from the minute I walked on the set on the pilot I was just a guest star possible recurring character at that time and I don't think Greg treated anybody as if they were any less important than anybody else everybody's everybody's opinion everybody's voice is heard and is valued and it's it continues to this day and it is really inspiring and really really special here he comes again comes out of it just comes out of the laziness factor again trying to get them to work out all my problems I'm really supposed to be working out was there any kind of a bonding out of you know in your first mini season half you know in midseason premiere the ratings were not exactly spectacular that's very bonding after after we finished our first six episodes I didn't think we were coming back and I went home and I cried for two days I did because I thought I was never gonna see these people again after only six episodes I felt like wow these are all people that I would want to have over to my house for a barbecue and I want to spend my free time with them and I was so incredibly sad at the possibility that I wasn't gonna get to be paid to hang out with them it's such a treat and that day will come though I'll have a barbecue we next week we start our 50th episode yep take that British version you know I wanted to add something to that too because it just came up when we were reading the other day our 50th and I I told I said this to Greg we a lot of people forget the second year also we just came back for six more and so that's a total of 12 six plus six and then we we went away for I don't know a month six weeks and we had no idea again if we were even gonna come back that same year and I remember it was I think I showed up I don't even know why and I was hanging out with rain and Steve and it was almost the end of the day it was the last day and Steve said we were lucky to have done 12 yeah and we sort of nodded our heads and went yeah you know we got to do 12 and that was cool and then now in our you know third year and coming back for another it's just really it's really it was really cool this week to read 50 it seems unreal I remember when we were shooting in the Chili's the the Chili's the dundies dundies was actually the sixth episode that we shot when we shot the beginning of our second season and we didn't know if we were coming back and I went up to Greg and I said I feel like maybe we should shoot like a scene with Jim and Pam like a kiss or a resolution and it wasn't just because John Krasinski's a hottie no first date for seriously four seriously for real it was that I I was afraid that we weren't gonna make any more episodes and that if we ever released 12 episodes on DVD people would be frustrated that's what and and we didn't do it because we didn't wanna we thought it would be like we were superstitious we said no we won't shoot a resolution to the Jim Pam story we're gonna force NBC to bring us back for one more 13th episode well 12 episodes would have been very Fawlty Towers and you totally could have gotten away with it but 50 is much better syndication approaches one more from the audience there yeah hi hello I just like to say I like Christina Jones but I'm team Pam my question is just really simple actually is there any plans with NBC to make your guys this episode maybe like an hour long or give us more director's cut for theatres cut artists make more hour-long shows in general yes the the one that you saw where Daryl was asking for a raise we're going to come back with a long super-sized episode and where you have an hour-long finale this year and there may be a lot of producers cuts also I'm not sure but we have you know more often than you would expect it justifies a producer's cut and then sometimes it doesn't so I don't want to say we're going to do it every time a lot of times it does and yeah I almost forgot was gonna ask Oh with a real corporate merger you know everybody's kind of sit around like who's losing the job who's the job and I was wondering going into that merger did you know what actors were gonna be sticking around or was it like everybody was waiting and giving BJ massages during breaks well that's all I have to say I guess he's team BJ well that for that just for the actual answer if you're interested in the actual address for that it was um we brought over five people and in the in the episode where we brought over five of them the three who weren't ed and Rasheeda we brought on for that episode and then we went back and snuck them into the obvious episodes with reshoots and when we knew that they were going to eventually be dropped off and it was actually kind of heart-rending because they were really funny and but we knew they were leaving each week now we have a bit of an interactive portion of our presentation you have a trivia contest and I'm not sure we have we have some questions here some of them are very hard and some of them are medium hard there are no easy questions and we have to so I think what we'll do is I'll start with the the not the grand prize and know how no we're gonna do this but I guess if multiple people think they know the answer raise your hands and you haven't thought this through at all try this one if it's super hard and no one gets it then we will take these home and we will enjoy them ourselves if it's a hopefully one person will get the answer okay what was Andy Bernards Call of Duty name I don't even remember behind you Michael said here comes trouble yes and possibly something else looks good it's really good should she be eligible for the next one ma'am please leave please okay don't shout your answers please what is Michael Scott's favorite sandwich hands please come up to the stage everyone who's got their hand up it was tomato ketchup and Bologna beautiful it's wearing and then now leave the auditorium hardcore all right we're gonna I have more questions so I'm just gonna try them since there seem to be a lot of people what was White's birthday present to Michael and what was written on it right there first hand what I saw right there - hands up it was a hockey jersey on the back and set from Dwight well we couldn't slice it really fine what was the number on the jersey you get nothing for that what was the name of Michael screenplay this is for the love of the show they're Nobel Prizes yes right that's two more what was Karen's screen name whoever screeched first off Steve Kevin you complete me and I love the rest of you the screen name Jim the Slayer their trivia question what does the frame certificate behind Michaels desk say the front it's a certificate of authenticity for like a Seiko watchers Seiko how it really is Bell sei que oh when we did the webisodes we must have had to take maybe what 32t you shush after cannot say Seiko I can't so sick oh boy I hate you and all those weapons heads were directed by Randle I just have one question one last question Creed what does your character do on the show my my character is Quality Assurance people call up ask about the quality of the paper and I assure them that it's good and it's the moderators prerogative one last observation I want to thank you for having a theme song or a theme tune rather than a theme riff which is sort of the the tendency these days you got a nice good beat to hang on to so thank you very much all for her you

Channel: The Paley Center for Media

Views: 155,062

Rating: 4.9275498 out of 5

Keywords: The Paley Center for Media, Paley Center, PaleyFest LA 2007, PaleyFest 2007, NBC, Comedy, Documentaries, Mockumentaries, Steve Carell, Oscar Nunez, Paul Lieberstein, Sitcoms, Corporate Life, Office Work, Co-workers, Angela Kinsey, Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer, Brian Baumgartner, Scrantonicity, Rashida Jones, Love Triangles, Romance, Scranton, Pennsylvania

Id: B6ejdArL5mE

Length: 52min 7sec (3127 seconds)

Published: Fri May 22 2020