The Office is comfort food. But seeing the reminds us that comedy is surgery . Every joke is a scalpel. Some get left on the table.
: While the show was 100% scripted, actors like Rainn Wilson and Steve Carell were known for improvising, which often led to an abundance of material and subsequent deleted scenes. Narrative Focus the office search committee script pages initially updated
So the next time you watch Dwight interviewing a psychic or Kevin eating chili off the floor, remember: some writer, on a Tuesday afternoon in April 2011, initially updated that joke. And television changed, just a little bit, for the better. The Office is comfort food