Question for B.J. Novak
Last night, I went to a performance by B.J. Novak, a writer for The Office who is perhaps now best known as playing Ryan on the same show.
After his stand-up routine, he started taking questions from the audience, and said he’d be happy to talk about The Office. I couldn’t think of any questions at the time (I was running on no sleep), but when I got back to my apartment, I remembered something that I’ve often wondered. This is what I’ll have to ask B.J. the next time I see him:
The Office is shot as a documentary. Do you think the characters watch it?
If the documentary is a TV series, I’d guess that at least some of them do watch it, and that Michael tunes in for every episode to evaluate how entertaining he is. If it’s a single film, they’ll probably all go to the premiere, and then have an extraordinarily awkward day at work, if they ever see each other again.
hmmm, interesting question! Maybe the series finale will have them attend the premiere, but it will be like 2 years later so we get to see what they have all moved on to.
Also I have a friend that actually thought The Office IS a reality show, hahahahaha.
Comment by tiffany — May 11, 2009 @ 6:25 pm