Darryl is a Stand-up Guy

Craig Robinson will be performing stand-up at the Brea Improv (120 S. Brea Blvd in Brea, CA) on June 4th at 8:30 p.m. For tickets and information, call (714) 482-0700. If you live in the area, go out and support everybody's favorite warehouse worker!

We *Heart* The Office

For the week of May 5-11, The Office was #1 in the Nielsen ratings and gained the largest audience increase since those crazy guys at Nielsen started monitoring DVR viewings. To see the numbers (which someone should really explain to me someday) go here...

DVD Mini-Scandal

The website TV Shows on DVD has reported that season 4 of The Office will go on sale Tuesday, September 2 and will retail at $49.99. Does this seem too much? A poster at Office Tally thinks so... I mean, really, the season was stunted by the strike and all the outtakes are available on NBC.com. What are your thoughts on the subject?

He's more than meets the eye!

Rainn Wilson has landed a small role in the upcoming Transformers sequel. According to Wilson, he will play Sam's physics professor at Princeton. Read the entire article here...

Sasquatch Sighting in Washington State

The seventh annual Sasquatch! Music Festival, held in Yakima, Washington, had a funny little sasquatch in attendance: Rainn Wilson. Promoting his upcoming movie The Rocker, Wilson introduced some of the bands and generally just roamed about making people smile. Read the entire article on the festival and Wilson's appearance here...

Melora and Miley

Melora Hardin has joined the cast of the as-yet-untitled first fictional feature film based on Disney's Hannah Montana. Read the announcement here...

Season Five Premere Date Announced!

"Everybody, conference room. Right now!" The one-hour season premiere of The Office will air on September 25, 2008 (9-10 p.m. est)! Let the countdown begin.

A chat with BJ

The Daily, the newspaper of the University if Washington, recently published an interview with BJ Novak in which he answers such questions as who his favorite Office character is and if Ryan will return next season. To read the entire interview, click here...

MTV Gets Smart

Our own World's Best Boss has been slated to appear at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards. Steve Carell will present an award with Anne Hathaway at 17th annual show airing June 1st. Read more here...

Thank you Steve!

The season finale of SNL boasts not only the highest ratings of an SNL finale in three years, but the highest ratings of any Saturday program since the NCAA Final Four broadcast in April. Why, you may ask? Because of a little guy I like to call Uncle Stevie. Continue reading here...

Steve Carell on SNL Video Clips

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Goodbye Toby

NBC has released the story line for May 15th 2008's FINALE episode entitled: "Goodbye Toby". They finally posted the real name.

Writers: Paul Lieberstein, Jen Celotta
Director: Paul Feig

IT'S TIME TO SAY GOODBYE--SPECIAL ONE HOUR SEASON FINALE-OSCAR NOMINEE AMY RYAN("Gone Baby Gone")GUEST STARS--It's Toby's (Paul Lieberstein) goodbye party at Dunder Mifflin and Michael (Golden Globe winner Steve Carell)demands a huge celebration that matches the joy in his heart. Angela (Angela Kinsey), sick of Michael's unreasonable last minute demands, refuses, and Michael turns to Phyllis (Phyllis Smith) to take over the party planning committee. Meanwhile, Dwight (Rainn Wilson) and Meredith (Kate Flannery) haze the new HR woman, Holly (Oscar Nominee Amy Ryan).

What did you think of "Goodbye Toby"? Share your thoughts with us all HERE.

"Goodbye Toby" News Items:
TwoCents Review, "Goodbye Toby" Conference Room

Deleted Scenes: 1

Paul Lieberstein's Live Blog Recap, Watch the ENTIRE episode online, Entire Cold Open, Ryan gets arrested on YouTube Video, Michael's song for Toby, NBC's Episode Photo Album, Buy a Toby's Last Day tshirt

What did you think of "Goodbye Toby"? Share your thoughts with us all HERE.

Toby's Last Day T-Shirt

Good ole NBC Store - allowing us to join in the fun again!

The Office Toby's Last Day T-Shirt
On the Season 3 finale of The Office, we say goodbye to Dunder Mifflin HR guy, Toby Flenderson. Help spread the word that his tenure at the paper company has ended by wearing this shirt that displays his departure date of 5-15-08. Yes, it’s his last day, but then again...who’s counting? 100% Cotton. Made in Honduras.

$24.00

Click HERE to get one.

Thanks to Paul "Cool Guy Paul" Faust for the tip!

Note: I know it was season 4 - it's the NBC Store people that have the typo. :)

"The Office and Philosophy" Contest/Give Away!

Following up on our interview with J. Jeremy Wisnewski, the editor of "The Office and Philosophy - Scenes from an Unexamined Life", we have one copy of the book to give away to a lucky fan!

How do you do it? Easy! Send your best philosophical idea of "The Office" (either NBC or BBC version) to OfficePhilosophy@TheTwoCents.com!


UPDATE! CONTEST EXTENDING 1 WEEK!!

Example:
"Jim pranks, therefore he is."

Yeah, it doesn't have to make sense. :)

One lucky winner will be selected at random and sent a copy of the book! The deadline is Office Finale Thursday!! That's Thursday May 15th at 10:00PM PST. So send in your entries now! NOW EXTENDED TO MAY 22ND!

Some Rules:
- Winners must be in the continental United States.
- Only one entry per person.
- Include Name, Address, Email in your submission.

That's it. Easy rules right?

How GREAT is this Photo!?

Click THIS LINK to see what I'm talking about.

I'm curious - do any of you have a funny caption for it? Share it in the comments!