A Major Promotion at ‘The Office’

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Hard Feelings Towards Hot Little Gremlin-Man, B.J. Novak
Published 9/24/2008 by drew at Jossip
... With The Office season premiere tonight, now is as good a time as any to look back at the solo work of the young man who just told The New York Times: "I don’t see the value in quote-unquote brilliant things that people don’t like, and I don’t see the value in things that people like that I don’t respect:" ...

B.J. Novak's Aspiration for 'The Office'
Published 9/24/2008 by By The New York Times at TV Decoder
B.J. Novak, a producer, writer and actor for the NBC series “The Office,” has thrived off-screen as his on-screen character has fallen on hard times, Edward Wyatt reports in today’s New York Times. Mr. Novak was Greg Daniels’ first hire when he began developing the U.S. version of “The Office.” At the time, Mr. Novak was a stand-up comic just a few years out of college who had done little more than write for a quickly canceled situation comedy and play largely improvised roles in a handful of episodes of the MTV reality show “Punk’d.” What attracted him to “The ...

Rivers Cuomo Knows Exactly How Long It’s Been Since You’ve Come to a Weezer Show
Published 9/25/2008 at Vulture
... "Most things [on television] were aspiring to be mediocre. They were imitating shows too, but they weren't even imitating good shows. At least we were aspiring to be like the best of the best." —B.J. Novak on The Office [NYT] ...

The Weekend Tally
Published 9/28/2008 by tanster at OfficeTally
Blogs : premiere week blogs from Jenna , Kevin , and Angela! Blog : did you know that the NBC Store now has an Office blog , including video interviews with the cast? Article : B.J. Novak — A Major Promotion at ‘The Office.’ Article : The Trouble With Paul Feig. Article : Philbin loses `Best Regis’ award to baby grandson. Article : One on One With Oscar Nuñez. Article : Jenna Fischer appears in the October issue of In Style Magazine. Photo : sign spotted around town. Photos : pics of ...