The Office is a show that excels in perfecting a specific brand of comedy rooted in the awkward silences and the soul-crushing mundanity of corporate life. Central to its comedic engine was the ...

Most TV-addicted Americans know B.J. Novak by one name: Ryan Howard, the desperate-for-success douchebag on NBC’s The Office. Novak’s character spent most episodes pursuing Kelly Kapoor and being ...

With such a large cast on The Office, characters came and went, which kept up the notion that Dunder Mifflin really did exist and viewers were dropping in on their daily grind. Ryan, played by B.J.