“He always kind of wins the day somehow, even though he’s an idiot.” As for Jan finding out about that incriminating photo that Michael sent out - well, Hardin thinks Michael’s secret is safe for now. “I don’t think anyone sent it to Jan,” Hardin says.
“I think they’re scared of her, they’re intimidated by her, and probably deep down, nobody wants to hurt her. And that would probably put her over the top. I think if she finds out, it’ll be way down the road when it doesn’t mean anything any more.
” The next two episodes of the show involve Phyllis’ wedding shower and nuptials, but in an unspecified upcoming outing on the show, Jan and Michael will officially come clean about their relationship to avoid running afoul of personnel rules, Hardin said. “He’s like, I know you’re above me, but I want you anyway. Speaking of getting into trouble, Andy had a major meltdown in the Jan.
18 episode of “The Office,” after being pranked by Jim and Pam. So, will the office schemer be back? Helms, who’s in the process of moving to Los Angeles, said in an interview, “I’m coming back,” but he didn’t give any clues about when.
An NBC rep says Andy’s not in any February episodes, but the character, who persisted in calling an annoyed Jim “Big Tuna,” certainly made an impression on the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin. “He’s kind of like everything I’d imagine hating in an office,” Helms said. “I think he’s a fusion of different things - hot-tempered [guy], frat boy, nerd.
He’s kind of overcompensating for being an a cappella singer. “I like to think he was in a fraternity, but not in the cool fraternity, he was in kind of a loser fraternity. But he’s incapable of acknowledging that it was anything but awesome,” Helms continued.
“He probably goes home every night and gets really upset when he’s alone with his thoughts and reads self-help-y kind of stuff.” Helms, a “Daily Show” correspondent who returned from his “Office” stint for one appearance on the Comedy Central show in December, said he hasn’t ruled out returning to that program again. But given his move to L.
A., we probably won’t see him quite as much on Jon Stewart’s show. “I’m very proud of my time at `The Daily Show’ and it’s a relationship that I want to foster as long as that show is around and I’m in showbiz,” said Helms, who’s also in a bluegrass group called the Lonesome Trio.
“I’d love to just sort of keep doing [occasional] segments and they seem open to it.” Photos: Melora Hardin as Jan and Steve Carell as Michael on The Office, Ed Helms on The Daily Show. in The Daily Show/Colbert Report, The Office (US UK) | Permalink | Comments (7) The test of a good comedy is whether it makes you laugh, of course.
The test of a better than good comedy is whether it makes you laugh on a second viewing of a given episode, and whether you spend the next day repeating lines from the show to your fellow fans. Devotees of The Office are familiar with the whole line-repeating, multiple-viewing syndrome. And the show’s hourlong Benihana Christmas episode (7 p.
m. 5) will give them plenty of remember this part? fodder around the water cooler.
(By the way, if you don’t want to see any spoilers for the episode, stop reading now.) Continue reading "On Comet, on Cupid! On Dunder!
On Mifflin! And to all a good night" in The Office (US UK) | Permalink | Comments (20) The reunion between Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) is full of awkwardness, not surprisingly. The show’s writers have done a wise thing by making Karen (Rashida Jones), a Stamford-ite who’s attracted to Jim and who makes the move to Scranton, a likable and credible potential love interest.
Still, the potential weirdness among those three is far from the only enjoyable thing about the merger episode: You could call the increasingly vicious verbal battles between Dwight (Rainn Wilson) and Stamford-ite Andy (Ed Helms) a battle of wits, but by the end, they’re like two snotty 12-year-olds having it out on the playground. In the funniest possible way, of course. 5) has some good scenes between Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) and Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin, whose comedy superpowers just about salvaged last weekend’s “Saturday Night Live”).
The fictional NBC executive takes a role in a skit on Lemon’s sketch-comedy show, but his nerves are nearly overshadowed by the shenanigans of cast member Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan), who pretends he can’t read to get out of rehearsals. “Tracy took advantage of my white guilt, which is supposed to be used only for good - like overtipping and supporting Barack Obama,” Lemon fumes. Still, there are two big flaws in the episode of this increasingly watchable comedy: There’s nary a glimpse of Kenneth the page, and too much attention paid to Jane Krakowski’s neurotic-actress character.
(actually, any attention in that direction is a mistake). Finally, what I saw of Thursday’s “My Name Is Earl” (7 p.m.
) is a waste of a fine guest star, Christian Slater, who plays an amiable pothead who had been robbed by Earl in the past. There’s also some stop-motion animation of the characters for reasons that were unclear to me. (then again, my promo DVD died about two-thirds of the way through the episode).
This episode, in which Earl hangs out at the stoner’s environmentally conscious commune, is far more preachy and less dexterous than the finest “Earls” have been. The show’s usually worth a look, but nothing of late has really matched the delirious fun of Season 1 episodes such as “Joy’s Wedding.” Be sure to check out this intriguing Pro-Karen and Pro-Pam blog debate, regarding the two ladies in the life of Office salesguy Jim Halpert.
And circle your calendars: The episode penned by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, creators of the original British Office, airs Nov. in My Name Is Earl, The Office (US UK) | Permalink | Comments (9) New shows for the 2006-2007 season, Scrubs, The Office (US UK) | Permalink | Comments (24) “He always kind of wins the day somehow, even though he’s an idiot.
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