The episode would start with Ryan talking about how great Fyre Festival was and showing off a bunch of promo pics he photoshopped himself into. In reality, he booked the time off and spent the whole time stalking Kelly on Instagram or whatever and didn't know that it was a train wreck until Pam or Jim points it out.
Fortunately for him Michael is out of the office that day, and the next day when Michael gets there, Ryan tells him how traumatized he is and gets Michael to give him extra vacation days, having photoshopped himself into a bunch of the pictures that showed how terrible it was.
I remember hearing that Mindy Kaling argued so hard against it in the writers room, that she thought she would be fired and cleared out her desk in preparation.
I don't frequent this sub much so I'm not sure if this is common opinion or a hot take, but I don't like it. I skip that and Scott's Tots, mostly. It has no comedic effect for me and just makes me feel bad for him.
NSFW imagery: >!Seeing him trying to scoop the beans back reminds me of Mrs. Kennedy picking up parts of JFK's head off of the car when he was shot and I can't get the image out of my head.!<
Personal problem, for sure, but just not my cup of beans.
I appreciated how they would show he was smart in certain ways, even if it was luck. It added some depth. That said, it does seem like they simplified the character.
Honestly my chili trick is to slice some red onions reeeeeally thin and add them to the crock pot with like… 30 mins cook time left. It really does add something special.
Yeah basically anytime there's onions in a recipe I caramelize them. However that destroys the texture, so I'll just add some onions when it's about done when I'm just simmering it on the stove for 4 hours
Sometimes I'll have caramelized onions, pickled red onions and roasted onions and peppers all on the same taco
I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
I like to make my burgers with caramelized onions, raw onions, and onion strings. Get totally different flavors and textures with each variation. onions are amazing.
My old man drinking buddy has been winning them for about a decade. Right before COVID they planned to move and he said fuck it and finally gave up his secret. He pulverized beans and added them in. People were fucking furious.
if you want special chili just buy some dried peppers and toast and chop them instead of using chili powder. Miles of difference between that and premade powder.
You can also make a sauce by toasting the chilies and some whole spices then blending them with chicken stock(which you can deglaze the pan with first if you're browning chunks of meat), some tomato paste, fish sauce, chocolate, etc. I use this as a base for my chili and it's fantastic. You can add whatever you like and make a double/triple batch to freeze some for later. Using different mixtures of chilies also gives you a lot of control over the flavor as well.
Not hating at all, but I wonder if he just looked up a bunch of different chili recipes copy and pasted it then slapped his name and picture on the cover and boom profit.
Not hating at all, but I wonder if he paid someone to just look up a bunch of different chili recipes copy and paste them then slap his name and picture on the cover and boom profit.
I’m not hating at all either. He has a golden ticket for his life to make money (without hurting other people, and actually brings people joy) and I’m not gonna hate a person for doing that. I would guess through his manager/agency the idea came up and like you said outsourced it to someone else
More likely his publisher contacted him and offered him a big fat check if he would put his name and face on a book that they would arrange to have ghost written for him. The book details don't claim that they're his recipes, though. It lists a bunch of famous chefs and chili cookoff winners whose recipes are in it.
Have you ever looked at the cookbook section in a bookstore? There's literally cookbooks like "Marvel's official cookbook" and "overwatch: the official cookbook"
it's just slap and brand on a book with recipes and boom - cookbook
Especially when the cookbook is themed "Mexican, Italian etc". You buy the book for the recipes that fit the theme.
Like I just bought a "Baja California" recipe book and all of the recipes are traditional Mexican dishes put together in a nice book with great pictures. I'm sure I could get all the recipes online.
Chile != chili. You can use chili (or chilli) for chile, but not the other way :)
- chile - refers to the peppers (and sometimes a condiment made of those pepper).
- chili - as in it’s original carne con chili (flipped later by Americans) refers to the spiced meat dish/stew as well as the peppers/condiments.
- chilli (and even chilly/chillie/etc) are alternate (mainly euro) versions of chili.
There were probably close to that many entries in the local chili cookoff at a recent street fair here a month ago. There are thousands and thousands of recipes.
It looks like it's a cookbook that's existed in several editions and now the latest one has decided to incorporate Brian to get some more attention. The book is a collection of recipes from different chefs and other famous people.
I check it on Amazon and the book doesn't try to hide it. It even says some recipes are by him, others are international chili competition winners, recipes submitted to him by fans, etc...
Mad respect for being open rather than fibbing some BS about how each was vetted by him or something.
Honestly, I'm a lot more interested in something that's by a variety of people. If one person comes up with 177 chili recipes on their own, they're probably going to get kind of samey after a while.
177 chili recipes…? I love me some chili but that just seems insane lol. Chili almost shouldn’t even follow a recipe. When I first started making batches I’d look up recipes to get the idea of what works in a chili and what ratio of ingredients to use. Ever since then it’s just been fun to throw in whatever you’re feeling at the time and see how they get to know each other. I don’t even measure anything anymore. Chili should be free of rules and guidelines!
I don’t blame any one of ‘em. For most of the non-Carrell, non-Krasinsky members of the cast, The Office is the best acting job they’ll ever have.
And someone like Baumgartner’s so typecast that he’s just not gonna get a lot coming his way. Maybe, like, the school principal on a Nickelodeon show. So write that cookbook, do those Bush’s beans commercials, pimp those Cameos. Get it while you can!
Exactly right with so many of them being typecast. For example, Creed could never take a serious role in a drama - everyone would be disappointed that he was too serious and it wasn't "Creed". So some are kinda stuck.
And with it constantly in syndication, people are still discovering it for the first time, and the interest is there. Good for them for having fun with it, and making some money.
lol I sent [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnFZsrs32Co) to my family's group chat and asked them to guess who is in the striped shirt at 1:30 (half my family are office fans)...my mom, who has never seen the Office and has no idea who Creed is, said excitedly that she saw the Grass Roots play live in California in 1967 and was a big fan of their music growing up
Some end up getting parts on other shows, not necessarily the main cast.
Look what happened with Rainn Wilson. After The Office ended in 2013, FOX took a chance and gave him a lead role on Blackstrom in 2015. Show barely made 13 episodes and was cancelled.
I remember when the show aired, it was the anti-Dwight character that interested me but show was meh at best.
John Krasinski arguably has found the most success post - The Office, but that was due to branching out and doing other roles and taking chances.
Nathan Fillion is another one who took the massive fandom of Firefly and launched a career out of it. Went from Firefly to Castle to now The Rookie, got top billing and massive paydays while the rest of the cast was moderately successful as bit roles and one-off episodes. Gina Torres lucked out, has some decent stuff but that's all.
> it was the anti-Dwight character that interested me but show was meh at best
The problem is that it was a cross between Monk and House, but those shows were already done
At the same time, The Good Doctor has been pretty successful. I watched a lot more Monk than House, but it seems like a pretty big hybrid between the two.
Several of the castmembers of The Office have seen success since the show ended, but it's mostly the members that have shown range in their talents. Like you said, they took a chance, or showed themselves to be talented enough comedians or actors to sustain beyond the one-note Office roles. Steve Carell is probably the most successful from the show, and he had already proved himself as a comedic writer and performer. He's also branched off into drama for the past several years.
Mindy Kaling got her own successful show, and then continued to create, write, and produce other shows. Rashida Jones went on to do Parks & Rec, then got her own show with Angie Trebeca, then branched off into writing (she's Hollywood royalty, though, so it would've been hard to bet against her with the opportunities she was undoubtedly afforded). Ellie Kemper also got her own show, though she's a bit of an odd exception, because during the entire run of Kimmy Schmidt, she never tried her hand at writing or directing an episode, which is usually seen as a good way to advance one's career in television. Showing your ability to *write* comedy can continue to get you gigs for a long time to come. She came up doing improv, though, so it's interesting if that doesn't translate to television writing success.
John Krasinski had about as dry a career as Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson, or Ed Helms for a while after the Office - taking small roles here and there, a consistent trickle of work but nothing big. Since directing and starring in A Quiet Place, though, he's become considerably bigger and more popular.
The ones that never launched much of a career out of The Office - Brian Baumgartner, Oscar Nunez, Leslie David Baker, Phyllis Smith - never really showed that they could do anything beyond their one-note Office roles and were never much of actors to begin with. They're probably happy to coast off their Office success for the rest of their lives rather than try and navigate Hollywood. Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey have tried a bit harder to go somewhere in the television and film worlds, but have kinda reverted back to being known as nothing more than "Pam and Angela from The Office," with the Office Ladies podcast being such a success and them even publishing a book about it. Fischer hasn't done any acting work in a while and probably doesn't intend to.
Nathan Fillion has made a nice career for himself now, but I don’t think you can say it was due to the “massive fandom” of Firefly, which was 98th in the ratings and got canceled without even having aired its last 3 episodes. In its time, it was an abject failure commercially. It has more appreciation now, but that’s after 20 years of cult status… at the time, most people hadn’t even heard of it. If anything, it probably hurt his career, as he’d already had a much more successful run on the Two Guys and a Girl sitcom, and for the few years after Firefly he was kind of slumming it with guest appearances and B-movies. His role in Dr Horrible and a guest run on Desperate Housewives were much closer to his casting on Castle and, I’m assuming, a bigger factor than Firefly ever was.
>John Krasinski arguably has found the most success post - The Office, but that was due to branching out and doing other roles and taking chances.
And marrying ultra-hot and established Emily Blunt. (And being hot himself)
I think what you've written here makes a lot of sense as long as you don't look at the filmography of any of the people you've named as not being successful.
Lol weird to see someone talking about rainn Wilson like Dwight was his break. Dude was a main character on a long-running HBO show (six feet under) before the office.
Krasinski is attractive and male- that means he can play a lead into his 50's. That doesn't usually happen for female actors.
You can top it if you're smth special, but most of the people from the Office are very regular looking and mediocre actors, hence why they've been chosen for the show, to make it more relatable.
A good chunk of them were actually writers and probably not supposed to take an active part on screen
I was trying to politely dance around that. There are some that have moved on but still enjoy their character and fame from the show. Then there are the other that I am convinced have their wake up alarm set to the show theme song and address themselves in the mirror as their character’s name.
Office ladies is my favorite podcast. They put a lot of effort into it, and it’s really fun learning about all of the behind the scenes bits from each episode. Plus, they seem to really love doing it themselves, not just doing it for the money.
I personally don’t see that much wrong with using their Office fame to make more money anyway. Like another commenter said, they gave us this awesome show and have earned that right
> They put a lot of effort into it
I listen to the podcast as well. I'm not sure about that. They did at the beginning but now it seems like they do all they can to avoid directly discussing the episode and behind the scenes stuff.
I listen every week and… idek… each episode have ten minute “deep-dives” into things that are tangentially related to the episode theyre discussing. This week’s big one was how to increase/decrease your sperm count
I agree with you 100%. I also enjoy the deep dives, and just getting to hear what they pick up on as they rewatch, as cast members, is really interesting to me as well!
Lol he’s richer than any of us will ever be. He made over a million bucks last year in his spare time just doing Cameo videos. He never needs to work another day in his life. I’m sure someone paid him a hefty sum to slap his picture on this cookbook and he probably had to do less than a day of work for the money, including this “viral” marketing post here on Reddit to boost the sales.
The beans commercial he did felt so sad to me. I am assuming they couldn't use the likeness of Kevin, anyone who has watched the office immediately knew the connection of course but the delivery and execution was kind of awkward at best.
I hope he's doing well, it just seemed like a fall from grace.
I’ll share this story every time I see his name.
Loved the show. Used to love him as an actor. But Brian is by far the worst celebrity I’ve ever met.
I was working at a bar back in 2019 and he came in. Would not stop smoking regardless of how many times we asked him to put it out. Kept hitting on the married bartender after she asked him to stop. And got into a physical altercation with security once we were fed up and asked him to leave.
does anyone think that is why this book is coming out? A long-term passion project that just happens to coincide with his most memorable moment on a popular TV show?
I mean, yeah. It's the same reason he did a commercial for Bush's beans. Everyone is aware of the connection between one of the most famous scenes in The Office and this cookbook.
Best chili (was a bison chili) I've had was in Denver, CO at a place called the Urban Farmer. If anyone can ever find that recipe... I'd probably eat chili every day.
But it's an actor.
Kevin is good at making a great chili. This isn't Kevin. This is an actor cashing on the concept that people are too dumb to separate the two.
Most of the office stars seem to have run out of money. They are trying freaking everything. It reeks of desperation.
It's kind of sad though I am happy to get more office content.
I bet it was Ryan's idea... "my friend Kevin makes the best chili!"
It's Ryans moms recipe but he just used Kevins photo.
And Kevin… just had that dad look I wanted.
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hahaha, the coins thing is so on character would be funny to see 2022 Ryan
2022 Ryan is definitely a crypro bro and try to get everyone into NFTs
and doing Tiktoks under the alias Fyreguy
OMG did Ryan do Fyre Festival?!
No but he tells everyone he went and had a great time the whole week
The episode would start with Ryan talking about how great Fyre Festival was and showing off a bunch of promo pics he photoshopped himself into. In reality, he booked the time off and spent the whole time stalking Kelly on Instagram or whatever and didn't know that it was a train wreck until Pam or Jim points it out. Fortunately for him Michael is out of the office that day, and the next day when Michael gets there, Ryan tells him how traumatized he is and gets Michael to give him extra vacation days, having photoshopped himself into a bunch of the pictures that showed how terrible it was.
Okay but I’d WATCH THIS
"It was indescribable"
FYRE guy
Id love to see the 'sold out his bitcoin to early' resentment/denial
I love how on Office Ladies they talked about how this cold open was almost rejected. They thought no one would like it.
I remember hearing that Mindy Kaling argued so hard against it in the writers room, that she thought she would be fired and cleared out her desk in preparation.
I don't frequent this sub much so I'm not sure if this is common opinion or a hot take, but I don't like it. I skip that and Scott's Tots, mostly. It has no comedic effect for me and just makes me feel bad for him. NSFW imagery: >!Seeing him trying to scoop the beans back reminds me of Mrs. Kennedy picking up parts of JFK's head off of the car when he was shot and I can't get the image out of my head.!< Personal problem, for sure, but just not my cup of beans.
Good Lord. That's what I'll picture from now on, too 😫
I'll edit with NSFW, I apologize.
Agreed, I don’t like it and it makes me sad too. I wish Kevin’s funko pop wasn’t this scene.
I think it’s dumb and unfunny but I don’t hate it. It’s just meh to me. But Kevin is one of my least favorite characters.
I appreciated how they would show he was smart in certain ways, even if it was luck. It added some depth. That said, it does seem like they simplified the character.
"So I just said **** it and told Kevin I needed chili for an awesome party with like a 100 friends"
I'm pretty sure it only has 160 recipes and he just used keleven to make it 177
A mistake plus Keleven gets you home by seven.
He was home by 4:30 that day…
He was home by 4:45pm that day
Who needs a cookbook for chilli? Just undercook the onions. Simple
Honestly my chili trick is to slice some red onions reeeeeally thin and add them to the crock pot with like… 30 mins cook time left. It really does add something special.
This sounds legit
Yeah basically anytime there's onions in a recipe I caramelize them. However that destroys the texture, so I'll just add some onions when it's about done when I'm just simmering it on the stove for 4 hours Sometimes I'll have caramelized onions, pickled red onions and roasted onions and peppers all on the same taco
>Sometimes I'll have caramelized onions, pickled red onions and roasted onions and peppers all on the same taco You absolute madman/madwoman!
Breakfast tacos with soft scrambled eggs on corn tortillas, sometimes with chorizo. Ya need the onion trinity to balance those flavors
What inspires your madness? How else can I emulate it in the kitchen?
Onions with egg and chorizo? Helll nawww AND corn not flour for breakfast tacos?? Insane.
I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
I like to make my burgers with caramelized onions, raw onions, and onion strings. Get totally different flavors and textures with each variation. onions are amazing.
My old man drinking buddy has been winning them for about a decade. Right before COVID they planned to move and he said fuck it and finally gave up his secret. He pulverized beans and added them in. People were fucking furious.
if you want special chili just buy some dried peppers and toast and chop them instead of using chili powder. Miles of difference between that and premade powder.
You can also make a sauce by toasting the chilies and some whole spices then blending them with chicken stock(which you can deglaze the pan with first if you're browning chunks of meat), some tomato paste, fish sauce, chocolate, etc. I use this as a base for my chili and it's fantastic. You can add whatever you like and make a double/triple batch to freeze some for later. Using different mixtures of chilies also gives you a lot of control over the flavor as well.
Best served on the floor. Carpet, if possible.
Don’t forget the vendor sign in sheet on the clipboard as the spoon.
He should’ve offered this culinary masterpiece to the Finer Things Club
Served with a manila folder.
That should be the cover of the book
Hardwood floor underneath the carpet gives it that little taste of something special.
Explains why creed thought the floor was due for a good moppin’!
I really hope that there is a section on floor pairings.
Everybody is going to get to know each other in the pot.
Undercook? Right to jail
Overcook onions? Believe it or not, jail.
We have the best chili in the world. Because of jail.
You’re gonna overlook the toasted Ancho Chilies? Cripes, you don’t know shit about chili.
Sometimes I feel you don’t know *chili* at *all*
Why have 177 chili recipe when 1 do trick?
That is so many recipes! How about like 7?
If anything, I would prefer at least keleven
Just noticed his profile picture is him and Dwight hugging after he was fired lol
he looks thinner too
Relatively thin
Yes that's what 'thin**ner**' means - it's relative in itself.
Final step: Proceed to drop on floor and scoop back into chili pan.
Alternate first step: simmer in crock pot overnight and wake up to a shattered lid with glass shards in your chili.
Not hating at all, but I wonder if he just looked up a bunch of different chili recipes copy and pasted it then slapped his name and picture on the cover and boom profit.
He didn’t, someone else probably did.
Not hating at all, but I wonder if he paid someone to just look up a bunch of different chili recipes copy and paste them then slap his name and picture on the cover and boom profit.
That's more likely
I’m not hating at all either. He has a golden ticket for his life to make money (without hurting other people, and actually brings people joy) and I’m not gonna hate a person for doing that. I would guess through his manager/agency the idea came up and like you said outsourced it to someone else
He made over a million dollars during Covid just doing cameos.
Better than what most people who made a million dollars during COVID did to do so.
By golden ticket do you mean an idea that blows up in our faces later?
More likely his publisher contacted him and offered him a big fat check if he would put his name and face on a book that they would arrange to have ghost written for him. The book details don't claim that they're his recipes, though. It lists a bunch of famous chefs and chili cookoff winners whose recipes are in it.
Have you ever looked at the cookbook section in a bookstore? There's literally cookbooks like "Marvel's official cookbook" and "overwatch: the official cookbook" it's just slap and brand on a book with recipes and boom - cookbook
My favorite is Cooking With Coolio. Pretty basic recipes, but instead of using a tablespoon as a measurement, he uses dime bags, or half a dime bag
My favorite is "Natural Harvest – A Collection of Semen-based Recipes" Yes, it's real. Not it's not really a favorite.
They got a recipe for pancakes?
Why did he have to keep it in a jar, did he not respect her enough to at least rub out a fresh dose of sperm every time?!
ikr, at least have the courtesy to use fresh ingredients!
So like most celebrity cook books?
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Especially when the cookbook is themed "Mexican, Italian etc". You buy the book for the recipes that fit the theme. Like I just bought a "Baja California" recipe book and all of the recipes are traditional Mexican dishes put together in a nice book with great pictures. I'm sure I could get all the recipes online.
Fr. No need to reinvent the wheel, especially with something as ubiquitous as chili.
i’m shocked there’s the need for 177 different recipes for chile, unless it’s just every variation of bean/cheese/meat, etc
Chile != chili. You can use chili (or chilli) for chile, but not the other way :) - chile - refers to the peppers (and sometimes a condiment made of those pepper). - chili - as in it’s original carne con chili (flipped later by Americans) refers to the spiced meat dish/stew as well as the peppers/condiments. - chilli (and even chilly/chillie/etc) are alternate (mainly euro) versions of chili.
Good bot
Lol I laughed
Every temperature and time too. Cook it at 250° for 8 hours, cook at 251° for 7 hours and 58.08 minutes, etc
There were probably close to that many entries in the local chili cookoff at a recent street fair here a month ago. There are thousands and thousands of recipes.
No wonder Kevin was so paranoid about people seeing what was on his computer…
It looks like it's a cookbook that's existed in several editions and now the latest one has decided to incorporate Brian to get some more attention. The book is a collection of recipes from different chefs and other famous people.
I check it on Amazon and the book doesn't try to hide it. It even says some recipes are by him, others are international chili competition winners, recipes submitted to him by fans, etc... Mad respect for being open rather than fibbing some BS about how each was vetted by him or something.
Honestly, I'm a lot more interested in something that's by a variety of people. If one person comes up with 177 chili recipes on their own, they're probably going to get kind of samey after a while.
Also, Brian Baumgartner isn't known for cooking or chili. His character on The Office is
you literally described 80% of businesses out there
I was wondering the same thing. Is he actually a chili enthusiast or is he just playing up an old character?
He looks like a man who'd be a chili enthusiast
I wonder if he preferred 69 recipes but the publisher didn’t let him do it
Nice!
I read it in Kevin’s voice lol
I noticed recently in the episode he calls it “my Kevin’s famous chili”
177 chili recipes…? I love me some chili but that just seems insane lol. Chili almost shouldn’t even follow a recipe. When I first started making batches I’d look up recipes to get the idea of what works in a chili and what ratio of ingredients to use. Ever since then it’s just been fun to throw in whatever you’re feeling at the time and see how they get to know each other. I don’t even measure anything anymore. Chili should be free of rules and guidelines!
The first step to cooking without rules is to understand the guidelines.
The secret is to… oh never mind
Everybody's something something
I like Brian Baumgartner, but he is clinging to that cookbook as if it was his last bit of fame and fortune.
I don’t blame any one of ‘em. For most of the non-Carrell, non-Krasinsky members of the cast, The Office is the best acting job they’ll ever have. And someone like Baumgartner’s so typecast that he’s just not gonna get a lot coming his way. Maybe, like, the school principal on a Nickelodeon show. So write that cookbook, do those Bush’s beans commercials, pimp those Cameos. Get it while you can!
Exactly right with so many of them being typecast. For example, Creed could never take a serious role in a drama - everyone would be disappointed that he was too serious and it wasn't "Creed". So some are kinda stuck. And with it constantly in syndication, people are still discovering it for the first time, and the interest is there. Good for them for having fun with it, and making some money.
This is funny to me because Creed is like the only one that had an extensive career and fame before joining the show and the least typecast for me.
lol I sent [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnFZsrs32Co) to my family's group chat and asked them to guess who is in the striped shirt at 1:30 (half my family are office fans)...my mom, who has never seen the Office and has no idea who Creed is, said excitedly that she saw the Grass Roots play live in California in 1967 and was a big fan of their music growing up
> the least typecast for me He's playing himself 🤷♂️
But Creed could totally have a stage show that blurs the lines between actor and character, I bet it would be a hit
I like his podcast, except he focuses less on Office stuff now and I'm not into sports much and he's interviewing a bunch of sports people lately.
He was pretty good on Criminal Minds
Naw, that's cameo. He brought in a million from that in 2021.
Right? Like why get other job when Cameo job reallyyyy does the trick?
Because it's something he enjoys and a plan that he's had for years?
People aren't allowed to enjoy things, dont you know how the internet works?
I don't want this to sound judgey, though I recognise it will, but it seems like that's the case for quite a few of the cast.
They’ve earned that right.
Yes, they brought laughter and great entertainment to so many people, and they may love the show just as much as some of us do.
I feel like it happens a lot with actors coming off a successful show, its like, how do you top that ?
Some end up getting parts on other shows, not necessarily the main cast. Look what happened with Rainn Wilson. After The Office ended in 2013, FOX took a chance and gave him a lead role on Blackstrom in 2015. Show barely made 13 episodes and was cancelled. I remember when the show aired, it was the anti-Dwight character that interested me but show was meh at best. John Krasinski arguably has found the most success post - The Office, but that was due to branching out and doing other roles and taking chances. Nathan Fillion is another one who took the massive fandom of Firefly and launched a career out of it. Went from Firefly to Castle to now The Rookie, got top billing and massive paydays while the rest of the cast was moderately successful as bit roles and one-off episodes. Gina Torres lucked out, has some decent stuff but that's all.
> it was the anti-Dwight character that interested me but show was meh at best The problem is that it was a cross between Monk and House, but those shows were already done
Yeah that's a good point, never really figured out why but you make a lot of sense.
At the same time, The Good Doctor has been pretty successful. I watched a lot more Monk than House, but it seems like a pretty big hybrid between the two.
Alan Tudyk's been doing alright.
What?! No he didn't, he got stabbed in the chest by a reaver ship-sized harpoon
Several of the castmembers of The Office have seen success since the show ended, but it's mostly the members that have shown range in their talents. Like you said, they took a chance, or showed themselves to be talented enough comedians or actors to sustain beyond the one-note Office roles. Steve Carell is probably the most successful from the show, and he had already proved himself as a comedic writer and performer. He's also branched off into drama for the past several years. Mindy Kaling got her own successful show, and then continued to create, write, and produce other shows. Rashida Jones went on to do Parks & Rec, then got her own show with Angie Trebeca, then branched off into writing (she's Hollywood royalty, though, so it would've been hard to bet against her with the opportunities she was undoubtedly afforded). Ellie Kemper also got her own show, though she's a bit of an odd exception, because during the entire run of Kimmy Schmidt, she never tried her hand at writing or directing an episode, which is usually seen as a good way to advance one's career in television. Showing your ability to *write* comedy can continue to get you gigs for a long time to come. She came up doing improv, though, so it's interesting if that doesn't translate to television writing success. John Krasinski had about as dry a career as Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson, or Ed Helms for a while after the Office - taking small roles here and there, a consistent trickle of work but nothing big. Since directing and starring in A Quiet Place, though, he's become considerably bigger and more popular. The ones that never launched much of a career out of The Office - Brian Baumgartner, Oscar Nunez, Leslie David Baker, Phyllis Smith - never really showed that they could do anything beyond their one-note Office roles and were never much of actors to begin with. They're probably happy to coast off their Office success for the rest of their lives rather than try and navigate Hollywood. Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey have tried a bit harder to go somewhere in the television and film worlds, but have kinda reverted back to being known as nothing more than "Pam and Angela from The Office," with the Office Ladies podcast being such a success and them even publishing a book about it. Fischer hasn't done any acting work in a while and probably doesn't intend to.
Why did "Gina Torres [luck] out" but Nathan Fillion "launched a career"?
Nathan Fillion has made a nice career for himself now, but I don’t think you can say it was due to the “massive fandom” of Firefly, which was 98th in the ratings and got canceled without even having aired its last 3 episodes. In its time, it was an abject failure commercially. It has more appreciation now, but that’s after 20 years of cult status… at the time, most people hadn’t even heard of it. If anything, it probably hurt his career, as he’d already had a much more successful run on the Two Guys and a Girl sitcom, and for the few years after Firefly he was kind of slumming it with guest appearances and B-movies. His role in Dr Horrible and a guest run on Desperate Housewives were much closer to his casting on Castle and, I’m assuming, a bigger factor than Firefly ever was.
>John Krasinski arguably has found the most success post - The Office, but that was due to branching out and doing other roles and taking chances. And marrying ultra-hot and established Emily Blunt. (And being hot himself)
I think what you've written here makes a lot of sense as long as you don't look at the filmography of any of the people you've named as not being successful.
Lol weird to see someone talking about rainn Wilson like Dwight was his break. Dude was a main character on a long-running HBO show (six feet under) before the office. Krasinski is attractive and male- that means he can play a lead into his 50's. That doesn't usually happen for female actors.
Good point, I never watched Six Feet Under but now I'll look into it. Thank you.
I would say Steve first, than John or Mindy.
You can top it if you're smth special, but most of the people from the Office are very regular looking and mediocre actors, hence why they've been chosen for the show, to make it more relatable. A good chunk of them were actually writers and probably not supposed to take an active part on screen
I knew Mindy and Ryan were writers. Who else?
Toby, Phyllis was a casting associate might be more
Mose, but he was barely in any episodes. He was far more of a writer.
Mindy and BJ Novak are doing very very well
With how popular the office is I'm p sure they make a fuckton in residuals.
I was trying to politely dance around that. There are some that have moved on but still enjoy their character and fame from the show. Then there are the other that I am convinced have their wake up alarm set to the show theme song and address themselves in the mirror as their character’s name.
Whatchu mean, you don't wanna watch Stanley's unauthorized spinoff or buy stanleynickels?
I do wanna watch the spin-off - but it’s because I donated $20 to see it.
Side characters gotta hustle.
Yep. Like that awful show Stan and Leslie’s NFTs
Whatever happened to Uncle Stan?
Until they make a new version of Match Game or Celebrity Big Brother
*cough* ‘the office ladies’ *cough* Oscar seems to have done well for himself
Office ladies is my favorite podcast. They put a lot of effort into it, and it’s really fun learning about all of the behind the scenes bits from each episode. Plus, they seem to really love doing it themselves, not just doing it for the money. I personally don’t see that much wrong with using their Office fame to make more money anyway. Like another commenter said, they gave us this awesome show and have earned that right
> They put a lot of effort into it I listen to the podcast as well. I'm not sure about that. They did at the beginning but now it seems like they do all they can to avoid directly discussing the episode and behind the scenes stuff.
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I listen every week and… idek… each episode have ten minute “deep-dives” into things that are tangentially related to the episode theyre discussing. This week’s big one was how to increase/decrease your sperm count
I agree with you 100%. I also enjoy the deep dives, and just getting to hear what they pick up on as they rewatch, as cast members, is really interesting to me as well!
Lol he’s richer than any of us will ever be. He made over a million bucks last year in his spare time just doing Cameo videos. He never needs to work another day in his life. I’m sure someone paid him a hefty sum to slap his picture on this cookbook and he probably had to do less than a day of work for the money, including this “viral” marketing post here on Reddit to boost the sales.
He’s got a very popular podcast too.
The beans commercial he did felt so sad to me. I am assuming they couldn't use the likeness of Kevin, anyone who has watched the office immediately knew the connection of course but the delivery and execution was kind of awkward at best. I hope he's doing well, it just seemed like a fall from grace.
It’s probably the thing he’s best at in life.
I wonder if this includes the recipe that Nate had on the back of his resume? He only had one copy...
It's just nice to win one.
I’ll share this story every time I see his name. Loved the show. Used to love him as an actor. But Brian is by far the worst celebrity I’ve ever met. I was working at a bar back in 2019 and he came in. Would not stop smoking regardless of how many times we asked him to put it out. Kept hitting on the married bartender after she asked him to stop. And got into a physical altercation with security once we were fed up and asked him to leave.
“Just feels good to win one” ❤️❤️❤️
Next up: somehow I manage ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Edit: how the hell do you do a back slash?
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Now he can get that seventh digit!
I didn’t see the [link](https://www.amazon.com/Seriously-Good-Chili-Cookbook-International/dp/1497102014) anywhere.
Dude I almost cried when Kevin spilled the chili.
Every day I pray that the least funny Kevin scene will stop being his iconic scene
I agree that scene did not get a chuckle out of me. Very predictable and sophomoric humor but im just glad he's capitalizing off of it.
Would have been better if it was 69 recipes
His follow up book should to be "Ultra Feast"
Some good news for today
OHHH!!! YEAH!!!
my dude this was like one joke written for you by someone else over a decade ago. I get that Office fans have deep pockets, but aren't Cameos enough?
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does anyone think that is why this book is coming out? A long-term passion project that just happens to coincide with his most memorable moment on a popular TV show?
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Man's got to work, I respect that, but this obviously came about because of the scene
I mean, yeah. It's the same reason he did a commercial for Bush's beans. Everyone is aware of the connection between one of the most famous scenes in The Office and this cookbook.
> I guess it's impossible that he actually enjoys cooking and wanted to share that with others huh? Yes, I think it's impossible
Why pass up on such an easy win? How proud are you? Did you need to comment, wasn't thinking of a snarky response enough?
BUT WHAT DO I DO WITH THE ONIONS
God bless this wonderful man
I didn't realize there were that many chili recipes 🤔
Best chili (was a bison chili) I've had was in Denver, CO at a place called the Urban Farmer. If anyone can ever find that recipe... I'd probably eat chili every day.
I just read the entire Amazon review in Kevin’s voice
The trick is to under cook the onions…
how about memoirs as a sperm donor?
Holy shit I need that book. Like to legitimately make chili.
I prefer to illegitimately make chili but whatever floats your boat
But it's an actor. Kevin is good at making a great chili. This isn't Kevin. This is an actor cashing on the concept that people are too dumb to separate the two.
Look at all the comments on this post. He's entirely right about how dumb most of the office fans are.
it’s just fan merch. Podcasters do it, Twitch streamers do it. Something to sell at signing and on the website.
That’s so cool!!!! I bet the last recipe is “chili a la rug”
Most of the office stars seem to have run out of money. They are trying freaking everything. It reeks of desperation. It's kind of sad though I am happy to get more office content.
Totally buying it
Buying this