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John Krasinski Reflects on Spending a Decade on 'The Office'

by | December 10th, 2012

"This is so much more for me than just ending a television series. I was a waiter when I got the job. No one would know my name if it wasn't for this job and I certainly wouldn't have gotten the career opportunities. To be part of something special enough to have a final season rather than just getting canned is an honor… I got this job when I was 23 and now I’m 33 and that’s a pretty important decade to spend on one project with one group of people. This is the most important thing I've ever done, the proudest thing I have. I will never forget a [...]

Reflections

Paul Feig Got "Choked Up" Watching Melissa McCarthy Kill on SNL

by | November 30th, 2011

Bridesmaids director Paul Feig was in the audience for Melissa McCarthy's SNL hosting gig, and here's how he remembers it:

I’d say the flash point moment for me was, you know, that Hidden Valley Ranch sketch which she'd done at the Groundlings for years. And always, one of the big gags was with that big bottle, picking it up and squirting it into her mouth like kind of emptying the whole thing in this kind of stream that she does. She just drags it and it’s always worked in the dress rehearsal. On air she picked it up, squeezed it and it explodes in her face. [That] never happened [...]

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