“Office” webisodes showcase native son Brian Baumgartner
July 25, 2008 at 9:46 am by Curt Holman in A&EI knew that “The Office’s” Ed Helms, formerly of “The Daily Show,” was from Atlanta, but I didn’t realize until recently that Brian Baumgartner, who plays Dunder-Mifflin’s slow-witted accountant Kevin Malone, is also an Atlanta native, and even attended Westminster High School with Helms. Kevin, perhaps best known for his Scranton, Pa.-based Police cover band Scrantonicity, is the central character of “Kevin’s Loan,” this summer’s series of two-minute webisodes of “The Office.” Baumgartner won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Broadband Program – Comedy for the 10-part webisode series “The Accountants” in 2006. So far three webisodes of “Kevin’s Loan” have gone on-line via NBC.com. Here’s the first, which went up on July 10:
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