'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other "comedies" that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
B. J. NovakIt's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.
B. J. NovakThere's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it's infinite, it's built out of something infinite, or it feels like it is, anyway, which is the same thing to us. You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.
B. J. NovakThere's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
B. J. Novak