A Totally Honest Review of The Office book by Andy Greene

 What I learned from The Office book:

1. Steve Carrell is a GAWD. Don’t ever cross this saint or he’ll kill you with kindness. He once rode a bicycle with a flat tire into the Grand Canyon to rescue an ailing Golden Retriever puppy. His tears are made of lemonade. When life gives him lemons, he cries. 

2. Greg Daniels is a TV savant who worked on many of your favorite shows and seems like a normal comedic genius.

3. There’s a bunch of characters on The Office that you don’t remember and might not even recognize if they walked up to you at the mall and told you they were on The Office and handed you a stapler (to confirm that they were, in fact, on The Office cuz everyone knows all the actors from the show carry around a stapler at all times – Rainn Wilson even has one of those trench coats that drug dealers have but when he opens it it’s staplers and mini staplers and tape and paper clips and Gorilla Glue and all the standard fare from the workplace) – you wouldn’t believe them and would report them to the sitcom authorities. There are too many characters on The Office. 

4. No one was famous before the show and now everyone is famous from the show – John Krasinski and Steve Carrell win the race to most famous though.

5. Speaking of John Krasinski, he’s a real down-to-earth dude who used to play video games and hang out and the crew thought he was nice and approachable. Some may call him a young Steve Carrell but with more bangs and guffaws. 

6. Michael Scott was irreplaceable – he was Jordan to The Office’s Chicago Bulls. Creed was Phil Jackson. Dwight was Pippen. Jim was Steve Kerr. Pam was Steve Kerr’s wife. Andy was Toni Kukoc. Phyllis was a cheerleader.

7. The show is tied to reality TV – the camera guys came from Survivor. The Office is like Survivor but Jeff Probst is the fax machine and no one ever leaves the show and there’s no helicopter rides and the only island is in the kitchen.

8. The Office is the best show ever and you become a cooler person having watched the entire series multiple times (at least according to The Office fan cults).