How The Office Managed To Make Will Ferrell Not Funny

One, two, three, new friends, wow, this is going to take hours, I mean, Will Farell, one of the funniest comedic actors who ever lived, showing up to play a guest role in The Office, one of the comedies of funniest and most revered situation of its time, it seems. It's like a recipe for laughter, but it turns out not that much, in fact. Against all odds, the

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found a way to do something that is usually pretty close to Impossible. They did Will Frell, it's not

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The American version of The Office debuted in 2005. It had an exceptional cast, but the star was clearly Steve Carell, already famous for his appearances in films such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin and his regular position as a correspondent on The Daily Show with John Stewart playing Michael Scott, the big-hearted but wildly unprofessional and borderline incompetent regional manager. Carell, of the Scranton Pennsylvania branch of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, was Lynch's pin and the heart of the series. Fans and critics loved him in the role and he received five Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe win for his performance as the rest of the film.

Carell's contract expired at the end of season 7, but unlike the rest, Carell's contract would not end up being renewed. Continuing a series after losing a protagonist is never a sure thing. However, The Office continued to be successful in the ratings and thanks to the fact that its cast. was still packed with stars like John Krinski, Mindy Kaling and Ed Helms, it was no longer as reliant on Carell's drawing power as it once was. For creative reasons, the decision was made to give Michael an emotional farewell four episodes before the end of season 7 and then to continue the series without him, Carell's departure was announced in January 2011 and shortly after it was reported that the

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had booked the comedy Legend Will Frell for a four-episode run that would largely overlap with Carell's final appearances.

Coverage also revealed that Frell would play a Michael Scott-like middle manager, leading to speculation that producers could be grooming Frell to replace Carell as boss next season. Big changes are coming and, interestingly, the appearance was Frell's idea according to the actor. He approached the producers about doing a single guest spot, but they came back with a full character. Bow. This all sounds great to me. A television veteran on Saturday Night Live. Frell had made sporadic guest appearances on the small screen even as his film career took off, his role as Ashley Schaer in Eastbound and Down showed that he could do a lot with a small role and the film Anchor Man showed that he had great comedic chemistry with Carell, yeah, I stabbed a man in the heart, I saw that brick killed a guy, so The Office fans were legitimately excited when Frell's fiancé played a character named D'Angelo Vickers arrived in the 19th installment of the season 7 Training Day.

The episode begins with Michael and D'Angelo meeting at a bar. At first they think it's random, but after a while they finally find out that they were actually there to meet each other, that's crazy, it quickly becomes apparent that D'Angelo shares some of Michael's silliest idiosyncrasies and they hit it off immediately. Despite the similarities, although D'Angelo seems to be a little more confident and generally more normal than Michael and when he meets the Dunder Mifflin employees they seem to really like someone he got off to a good start with the new boss his jokes land his Likes are appreciated and they immediately embrace him with the warm kindness that Michael has always desired from his staff, unsurprisingly, Michael begins to resent the situation and creates tension between him and D'Angelo, putting the staff uncomfortably in the middle of a fight between current and future bosses over the course of history.

Turns out D'Angelo has a bit of a bad streak. For example, when he seems to enjoy making Andy humiliate himself or when he rudely shushes Pam when she gushes about something nice her baby did. I'm telling you, baby. You might be the star of a show called Babies, I Don't Care About 'Em, but regardless of how badly you treat them, everyone knows D'Angelo is about to be the boss, so when the time comes, push the employees to your side. side. Michael, despite the latter's personal attractiveness, is a bitter reminder to Michael that his relationship with his work family would be different when he's not the boss and doesn't have anything as fun to do.

D'Angelo actually

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s for a pretty complex relationship and is an intriguing foil to Michael in that episode, and while the low-key role doesn't necessarily play to his strengths as a comedic actor, Frell isn't bad in the role, which is why he's like Whiplash when in episode 20 Michael and D'Angelo's last dundies arrive he is a substantially different character you sir we had fun tonight having a great time oh well thank you yes where were you on 9/11? Not in this installment D'Angelo is an insecure and easily manipulated buffoon, his petty cruelty seemingly disappearing completely and allowing Michael to guide him against his

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into co-hosting his awkward and often offensive Dundy Awards.

Listen to me. You're not doing this for me. You're not doing this for yourself. You're not even doing this for them. What am I doing it for? Suffering from stage fright, D'Angelo does some silly but not very

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things, such as reading the stage directions from his Q cards, as well as giving Michael someone to lecture about the importance of awards. D'Angelo doesn't really serve much purpose in the story and anyone who expected D'Angelo's third appearance in the double-sized episode 21, bye-bye, Michael to tidy up the character or

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clear his role in the grand scheme of things, would be deeply disappointed because in his third appearance it seems that Frell to play yet another version of the character, give me that damn dog, you thief, it's her, do it, okay, don't ever do it again.

This D'Angelo is a recklessly incompetent salesman who seems to be giving in to his previously mentioned old habit of overeating. he plays no significant role in Michael's departure and a final scene in which he apparently has some kind of food-related meltdown while he eats a cake with his hands is never mentioned again. What am I doing? Come on, D'Angelo, hey, D'Angelo's final appearance is coming. episode 22, the Inner Circle, this time he's back to being evil, except he's a much bolder asshole than he was in his first appearance and now he's also openly sexist towards the Dunder Mifflin employees.

I like Ryan, you seem a little hysterical to me. Ryan is your supervisor, let's leave it at that, on the other hand, he has also become somewhat competent again and even Jim grudgingly admits that he is good at his job and that I like working for him, despite this, he extols the virtues of juggling as an executive skill and then acts like a clown. a juggling routine set to Essences Bring Me to Life for all of his employees. D'Angelo's tenure as regional manager comes to an end when he shoots a basketball hoop at himself while showing off his improbable dunk ability.

Everything feels totally random. but really it's also everything about D'Angelo, the losing streak, the stage fright, the overeating disorder, the juggling dance, the basketball skills at the end of four episodes, D'Angelo just seems like a series of unrelated jokes that even the great Will F couldn't get much laugh from, in fact it's not unreasonable to say that, aside from his attempts at drama, his office career might be the least funny wild one it's ever been, that's cold , sir, absolutely cold, you know, it was a complete waste of my time and to be clear, that is not your fault in any way, frell absolutely throws himself into everything he has been given to do, since his introduction low-key to the manic dance routines, it's just that nothing he's given to do is really fun, that's because it's pretty obvious that the writers never had a clear vision of D's personality or purpose. 'Angelo on the show and, as a character-based comedy, The Office generally provides laughs by placing Dunder Mifflin employees in situations that are personally uncomfortable for them.

D'Angelo's character changes so much. Often and so haphazardly, we are never able to form a lasting sense of his personality, what is or isn't awkward for him, or what most of the gang feels about him and his antics, so none of the humor really falls asleep right after SE. Hey guys, no, go back to the script episode by episode. The writers seem to be searching for his character by trying new and increasingly strange takes. They seem to be looking for better uses for Fal's skill set, but the net effect is that D'Angelo simply ends up. changing to what they think they need for any given joke or scene, they're trying to figure me out and I don't like it, and if you've ever seen our video about the unfortunate problem with the offices, Ryan Howard, then you know it's not the first time that the office has repeatedly changed a character's personality while trying to make it work.

It's not impossible that a character like D'Angelo could have been at the center of some sort of torch-passing arc that allowed Michael to interact. with his replacement and maybe even leaving an impression on him, what we actually got turned out to be meaningless from a narrative perspective and with Frell making it clear that he wouldn't be staying, there wasn't even any suspense as to whether D'Angelo was there to stay. , but really the worst part of the whole thing was simply that D'Angelo wasted so much time in Carell's final episodes, this is probably because someone assumed that the audience would want to see the two comedic stars interact a lot with each other and That's not It's far-fetched, but those interactions weren't exceptionally fun and consumed time that would have been much better spent letting Michael interact with his office family.

Ultimately, it's hard not to think that the series wouldn't have been creatively better by simply ending the season. With Michael's departure, season 8 could have begun with the search for a new boss or even with just a new boss already in place, sure some of the material from Frell's career has increased in viewership throughout the years, but at the end of the day, his presence. The Office never felt like much more than a gimmick, and while it's understandable, the producers would want to do something to boost the ratings for Carell's final episodes and give viewers an incentive to keep watching after he gone, if your gimmick doesn't make it look fun, maybe it's time. for another rewrite, but hey, what do you think?

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