{"id":358,"date":"2006-12-18T05:05:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T11:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/18\/casting-writers-on-the-office\/"},"modified":"2006-12-18T05:05:11","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T11:05:11","slug":"casting-writers-on-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magiclamp.org\/index.php\/2006\/12\/18\/casting-writers-on-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Casting Writers on &#8220;The Office&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might have noticed that a few of the episodes of &#8220;The Office&#8221; this season were written by some of the actors on the show.   I noticed that Mindy Kaling (Kelly) was credited for a couple of the shows this season.   Well, it turns out that it&#8217;s not that actors are writing for the show, it&#8217;s that writer&#8217;s are acting for the show.  Slight difference there, but I think you can tell the difference.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/hollywoodhotline.latimes.com\/watcher\/2006\/11\/if_nbcs_comedy_.html\">good article<\/a> on the Channel Island blog about how this happened.   And it turns out that Mindy isn&#8217;t the only writer turned actor.   Paul Lieberstein (Toby, the human resources guy) was also a writer for the show first, and has become a regular for the show.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\">TV Squad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have noticed that a few of the episodes of &#8220;The Office&#8221; this season were written by some of the actors on the show. I noticed that Mindy Kaling (Kelly) was credited for a couple of the shows this season. 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