Myspace?

Hey!

Um, yeah... Hi! This is... wow... I mean it's great to see you again, it's just, wow, it's been, what, a couple months now?

Yeah, I -- what? no, no, you -- that's -- what? Haha, we both -- were you going to say something?

Oh, yeah, haha, that's for the show, I don't know, it's a change I guess, haha, it's fun not to shave, haha.

And look at you, myspace! You haven't aged a day! Seriously. I promise. Like, maybe it would have even been a good idea to take on a more mature... Too cluttered? No, no, I like that look. I mean, you're kind of hard to make sense of sometimes, but...

Yeah, I don't know. I got busy, I guess, and, I don't know, you seemed really into Dane Cook, I just figured...

What? Myspace, that's crazy. Who saw me on Facebook? No, no no. I would tell you.

Anyway, myspace, it's really good to see you again. I definitely, definitely plan on keeping in better touch. .

The Office premieres tonight, Thursday, September 27th, at 9pm / 8 central with a one-hour episode.

So, a few months ago, on the Tonight Show, I talked about a prank I did with a friend at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston when I was in high school.

Basically, we took tour of this exhibit of Chinese art. They had one of those audio tours where you put on headphones and get a guided tour of the art ("turn to your left... you will see...." etc.).

We decided it would be funny to replace the tapes of the tour with our own recording. We stole a cassette tape from the tour, took it back home, and transcribed where everything was in the exhibit. Then we wrote our own tour and recorded that. My brother Jesse Novak matched it up with appropriate ancient-Chinese-sounding music in the background.

We made fifteen copies of the tapes and got fifteen friends to take the tour with a new tape in their pocket. On the tour, everyone quietly replaced the original tape with the new tape at some point before returning the headset at the end of the tour. This left the next batch of museumgoers with the new tour we recorded.

Anyway, my friend just put the tour up on iTunes. This link should work, or you can just search the iTunes store for "B.J. Novak" or "Prank Audio Tour."

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=256548204

Thank you for watching another season of The Office. You turned us from a cult show to an actual hit this year. We will be back in September.

In the meantime: the episodes are all available on iTunes. The DVD set of Season 3, complete with all deleted seasons, cast commentaries, and extra material will be available sometime in early September. Repeats, "newpeats" with additional scenes, and new web materials will most likely surface during the summer and will always be announced on www.nbc.com/office.

We are already hard at work writing the next season, which will be a very exciting one. Especially for Ryan, of course, who has risen quickly from temp to sexually-harassed salesman... to Michael's boss.

Thank you again for all the support this season. Everything we do feels like an inside joke, and it's always amazing to see how many people somehow know the jokes too.

Tonight is the season finale of The Office.

It's an hour long. (It starts early, at 8pm instead of 8:30.)

There's a lot of everything. There's big news, big relationship changes, big comedy, big everything. A lot of exciting new things that aren't just funny and cool in this one episode, but will continue to pay off in the future.

That sounds like a lot of promises. A lot of vague promises -- the worst kind. Well... I don't know what to tell you. This is just a real funny and plot-filled episode.

We'll be back in the fall with 30 new episodes, and a lot to cover that tonight will set up.

Anyway. Tonight. Season Finale of The Office. 8pm/7pm Central. Good episode. Proud of it.

Just a heads up that I will be a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
tonight (Wednesday, April 4th).  The other guests are Ice Cube and Clap
Your Hands Say Yeah so it could (should?) be a great show.  I'd say
'should' but that's a lot of pressure on Cube and the rest of us.

And to those of you wondering about when The Office comes back, a new
episode returns tomorrow night (Thursday, April 5th).

An open letter:

I know you think The Wire is great.  It probably is!

I know you think I would love The Wire.  I probably will!

I know that you believe that The Wire is totally amazing and addictive.  (I deduced it from your previous statements about The Wire.)  And I don't doubt it.

You were right about The Sopranos.  You were right about Lost.  I bet you're right about The Wire!  I bet I'll really like The Wire when I get around to watching it.  It sounds great.

In the meantime, please SHUT UP ABOUT HOW MUCH I AM GOING TO LOVE THE WIRE.   I have a lot to do, and I have a long Netflix queue.  

I will watch The Wire when I watch The Wire!

I will be performing a little bit of standup this spring during a break from "The Office."

So if anyone wants to invite me to perform at their college, I'm told that now is the time to book it... Contact Heidi Feigin at the William Morris Agency at 310-786-4280. I'm free some dates in April & May in 2007.

I just wanted to let people know that tonight is the one-hour Christmas episode of "The Office." It starts earlier than usual: 8pm if you live in most places, 7pm if you live in a central time zone, this Saturday night when you come home early from a holiday party that you had high expectations for but was really kind of lame but what were you really expecting anyway come to think of it if you have Tivo, 1955 if you drive the right type of DeLorean, super cool kids club if you get that reference.

Harold Ramis directed the episode. We're all especially proud of it.

Why are Advil so fucking delicious? It makes me look forward to my next headache. They should come out with "Minimum Strength" Advil so that we could take six or eight of them at a time instead of just two.

In 1915, Charlie Chaplin won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. This anecdote is, of course, very amusing, ironic, and charming. But imagine if he had won first prize. Everyone would have said, "What a dick!"