Get a free audiobook
-
The Office
- The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Holter Graham, P.J. Ochlan, full cast
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Entertainment & Performing Arts
People who bought this also bought...
-
The Actor's Life
- A Survival Guide
- Written by: Jenna Fischer
- Narrated by: Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jenna Fischer's Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hometown of St. Louis. She was determined, confident, and ready to work hard. So, what could go wrong? Uh, basically everything. The path to being a professional actor was so much more vast and competitive than she’d imagined. It would be eight long years before she landed her iconic role on The Office, nearly a decade of frustration, rejection, and doubt. If only she’d had a handbook for the aspiring actor. Or, better yet, someone to show her the way. Jenna wants to be that person for you.
-
-
Great book!
- By Beth on 2020-10-25
-
The Bassoon King
- My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
- Written by: Rainn Wilson
- Narrated by: Rainn Wilson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of The Office fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. Rainn founded a website and media company, SoulPancake, that eventually became a best-selling book of the same name. He also started a hilarious Twitter feed (sample tweet: "I'm not on Facebook" is the new "I don't even own a TV") that now has more than four million followers.
-
-
Excellent book
- By Shawn Ferguson on 2020-11-18
-
One More Thing
- Stories and Other Stories
- Written by: B. J. Novak
- Narrated by: B. J. Novak, Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes - only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins - turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother....
-
-
Best Audible Book I have listen too
- By Carolynn on 2019-05-17
-
Seinfeldia
- How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
- Written by: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Comedians Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld never thought anyone would watch their silly little sitcom about a New York comedian sitting around talking to his friends. NBC executives didn't think anyone would watch either, but they bought it anyway, hiding it away in the TV dead zone of summer. But against all odds, viewers began to watch, first a few and then many, until nine years later nearly 40 million Americans were tuning in weekly.
-
-
Please don't expect a laugh or even a grin
- By Carole Poche on 2020-04-24
-
My Squirrel Days
- Written by: Ellie Kemper
- Narrated by: Ellie Kemper
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
There comes a time in every sitcom actress’ life when she is faced with the prospect of writing a book. When Ellie Kemper’s number was up, she was ready. Contagiously cheerful, predictably wholesome, and mostly inspiring except for one essay about her husband’s feet, My Squirrel Days is a funny, freewheeling tour of Ellie’s life - from growing up in suburban St. Louis with a vivid imagination and a crush on David Letterman to moving to Los Angeles and accidentally falling on Doris Kearns Goodwin.
-
-
Loved it
- By Kate on 2019-02-08
-
A Promised Land
- Written by: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
-
-
Obama reads this himself!
- By Meredith on 2020-11-17
-
The Actor's Life
- A Survival Guide
- Written by: Jenna Fischer
- Narrated by: Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jenna Fischer's Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hometown of St. Louis. She was determined, confident, and ready to work hard. So, what could go wrong? Uh, basically everything. The path to being a professional actor was so much more vast and competitive than she’d imagined. It would be eight long years before she landed her iconic role on The Office, nearly a decade of frustration, rejection, and doubt. If only she’d had a handbook for the aspiring actor. Or, better yet, someone to show her the way. Jenna wants to be that person for you.
-
-
Great book!
- By Beth on 2020-10-25
-
The Bassoon King
- My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy
- Written by: Rainn Wilson
- Narrated by: Rainn Wilson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of The Office fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. Rainn founded a website and media company, SoulPancake, that eventually became a best-selling book of the same name. He also started a hilarious Twitter feed (sample tweet: "I'm not on Facebook" is the new "I don't even own a TV") that now has more than four million followers.
-
-
Excellent book
- By Shawn Ferguson on 2020-11-18
-
One More Thing
- Stories and Other Stories
- Written by: B. J. Novak
- Narrated by: B. J. Novak, Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes - only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins - turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother....
-
-
Best Audible Book I have listen too
- By Carolynn on 2019-05-17
-
Seinfeldia
- How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
- Written by: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Comedians Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld never thought anyone would watch their silly little sitcom about a New York comedian sitting around talking to his friends. NBC executives didn't think anyone would watch either, but they bought it anyway, hiding it away in the TV dead zone of summer. But against all odds, viewers began to watch, first a few and then many, until nine years later nearly 40 million Americans were tuning in weekly.
-
-
Please don't expect a laugh or even a grin
- By Carole Poche on 2020-04-24
-
My Squirrel Days
- Written by: Ellie Kemper
- Narrated by: Ellie Kemper
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
There comes a time in every sitcom actress’ life when she is faced with the prospect of writing a book. When Ellie Kemper’s number was up, she was ready. Contagiously cheerful, predictably wholesome, and mostly inspiring except for one essay about her husband’s feet, My Squirrel Days is a funny, freewheeling tour of Ellie’s life - from growing up in suburban St. Louis with a vivid imagination and a crush on David Letterman to moving to Los Angeles and accidentally falling on Doris Kearns Goodwin.
-
-
Loved it
- By Kate on 2019-02-08
-
A Promised Land
- Written by: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
-
-
Obama reads this himself!
- By Meredith on 2020-11-17
-
A Polaroid Guy in a Snapchat World
- Written by: David Spade
- Narrated by: David Spade
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Written and performed for the Audible experience, Spade’s new comic memoir takes listeners along for the sometimes embarrassing and always hilarious ride of getting older in our fleeting “Snapchat World”.
-
-
laugh outloud
- By Anonymous User on 2018-07-26
-
The Good Neighbor
- The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
- Written by: Maxwell King
- Narrated by: LeVar Burton
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The first full-length biography of Fred Rogers, The Good Neighbor tells the story of this utterly unique and enduring American icon. Drawing on original interviews, oral histories, and archival documents, Maxwell King traces Rogers’s personal, professional, and artistic life through decades of work, including a surprising decision to walk away from the show to make television for adults, only to return to the neighborhood with increasingly sophisticated episodes, written in collaboration with experts on childhood development.
-
-
Excellent!
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-05-29
-
Girl Walks into a Bar...
- Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
- Written by: Rachel Dratch
- Narrated by: Rachel Dratch
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch. She was hilarious! So what happened to her? After a misbegotten part as Jenna on the pilot of 30 Rock, Dratch was only getting offered roles as "Lesbians. Secretaries. Sometimes secretaries who are lesbians." Her career at a low point, Dratch suddenly had time for yoga, dog- sitting, learning Spanish - and dating. After all, what did a forty-something single woman living in New York have to lose?
-
-
Really loved it
- By Anonymous User on 2019-11-13
-
Nitro
- The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW
- Written by: Guy Evans
- Narrated by: Guy Evans
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Nitro is a story about much more than WCW and the Monday Night Wars. It is a story of an era, a time in which the media and cultural landscape precipitated - and later supported - pro wrestling's mainstream popularity. It is a story of how a company made in the image of an intuitively brilliant risk-taker betrayed its original promise. It is a story of how a handful of men, each struggling with their own limitations, facilitated a public obsession that changed television forever.
-
-
WCW Nitro Book
- By Andrew Gasperski on 2020-08-05
-
Live from New York
- The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests
- Written by: James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine, Paul Woodson
- Length: 28 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When first published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, Live from New York was immediately proclaimed the best book ever produced on the landmark and legendary late-night show. In their own words, unfiltered and uncensored, a dazzling galaxy of trail-blazing talents recalled three turbulent decades of on-camera antics and off-camera escapades.
-
-
Fascinating book
- By R. Whitlock on 2019-08-17
-
A Life in Parts
- Written by: Bryan Cranston
- Narrated by: Bryan Cranston
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Bryan Cranston landed his first role at seven, when his father, a struggling actor and director, cast him in a United Way commercial. Soon Bryan was haunting the local movie theater, memorizing and reenacting favorite scenes with his older brother. Acting was clearly the boy's destiny - until one day his father disappeared. Suddenly destiny took a backseat to survival. Seeking something more stable, perhaps subconsciously trying to distance himself from his absent father, Cranston decided on a career in law enforcement.
-
-
Loved it!
- By Janet on 2020-08-11
-
Is This Anything?
- Written by: Jerry Seinfeld
- Narrated by: Jerry Seinfeld
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub "Catch a Rising Star" as a 21-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved everything. "Whenever I came up with a funny bit, whether it happened on a stage, in a conversation, or working it out on my preferred canvas, the big yellow legal pad, I kept it in one of those old school accordion folders," Seinfeld writes. "So I have everything I thought was worth saving from forty-five years of hacking away at this for all I was worth."
-
-
GENIUS...!!! TRUST ME...IT'S FOR YOU!!!!
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-10-09
-
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
- Written by: Mindy Kaling
- Narrated by: Mindy Kaling, Michael Schur, B. J. Novak
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence “Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I’ll shut up about it?”
-
-
Light and Hilarious!
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-10-08
-
Three Ring Circus
- Kobe, Shaq, Phil and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
- Written by: Jeff Pearlman
- Narrated by: Brian Hutchison
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the history of modern sport, there have never been two high-level teammates who loathed each other the way Shaquille O’Neal loathed Kobe Bryant and Kobe Bryant loathed Shaquille O’Neal. From public sniping and sparring, to physical altercations and the repeated threats of trade, it was warfare. And yet, despite eight years of infighting and hostility, by turns mediated and encouraged by coach Phil Jackson, the Shaq-Kobe duo resulted in one of the greatest dynasties in NBA history.
-
-
Kobe’s legacy hit with this book
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-09-26
-
I Must Say
- My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
- Written by: Martin Short
- Narrated by: Martin Short
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Martin Short takes you on a rich, hilarious, and occasionally heartbreaking ride through his life and times, from his early years in Toronto as a member of the fabled improvisational troupe Second City to the all-American comic big time of Saturday Night Live and memorable roles in movies such as ¡Three Amigos! and Father of the Bride.
-
-
A True Canadian Treasure!
- By Dawn Rowlandson on 2020-03-08
-
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- A Hunger Games Novel
- Written by: Suzanne Collins
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the 10th annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to out charm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low.
-
-
great book, bad editing.
- By Anonymous User on 2020-07-30
-
Under the Black Hat
- My Life in the WWE and Beyond
- Written by: Jim Ross, Paul O'Brien
- Narrated by: Jim Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ross' ascent in WWE mirrors the rise of professional wrestling itself from a DIY sideshow to a billion-dollar business. Under the Black Hat traces all the highs and lows of that wild ride, in which Jim served not only as on-air commentator, but talent manager, payroll master, and even occasional in-ring foil to threats like Paul "Triple H" Levesque and Undertaker.
-
-
Another great book
- By Chris on 2020-12-31
Publisher's Summary
An instant New York Times best seller
The untold stories behind The Office, one of the most iconic television shows of the 21st century, told by its creators, writers, and actors.
When did you last hang out with Jim, Pam, Dwight, Michael, and the rest of Dunder Mifflin? It might have been back in 2013, when the series finale aired...or it might have been last night, when you watched three episodes in a row. But either way, long after the show first aired, it’s more popular than ever, and fans have only one problem - what to watch, or listen to, next.
Fortunately, Rolling Stone writer Andy Greene has that answer. In his brand-new oral history, The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s, Greene will take listeners behind the scenes of their favorite moments and characters. Greene gives us the true inside story behind the entire show, from its origins on the BBC through its impressive nine-season run in America, with in-depth research and exclusive interviews. Fans will get the inside scoop on key episodes from "The Dundies" to "Threat Level Midnight" and "Goodbye, Michael", including behind-the-scenes details like the battle to keep it on the air when NBC wanted to pull the plug after just six episodes and the failed attempt to bring in James Gandolfini as the new boss after Steve Carell left, spotlighting the incredible, genre-redefining show created by the family-like team, who together took a quirky British import with dicey prospects and turned it into a primetime giant with true historical and cultural significance.
Hilarious, heartwarming, and revelatory, The Office gives fans and pop culture buffs a front-row seat to the phenomenal sequence of events that launched The Office into wild popularity, changing the face of television and how we all see our office lives for decades to come.
More from the same
What listeners say about The Office
Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Endrene Shepherd
- 2020-03-31
Boooring
I'd rather watch the show, or hear real interviews. Struggling to get through the second chapter. It's so fragmented and false-sounding, it can't hold my attention.
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Taylor
- 2020-07-08
Just buy it!
If you happen to be a diehard fan of the office, this is for you!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Molly
- 2020-03-29
Good, but some missing info for the true fan...
I really enjoyed hearing so much from the writers who were clearly the major driving force behind this brilliant show, but I hoped for some more info on aspects I’ve wondered about for a long time, particularly some of the choices they made with characters (for instance, why there were so many major characters who drastically changed basic elements of their personality over the seasons like Ryan who became a complete jerk and how they basically made Kevin mentally handicapped). Also, some major plot holes I’ve always wondered about, like how Angela’s baby was DNA tested as NOT Dwight’s, then conveniently was his baby somehow at the end of the show, and how their continuity was really lacking (Michael had a brother then was an only child, Andy’s Secretary stepmother from “Secretary’s Day” that didn’t exist later, what happened to D’Angelo’s assistant Jordan, and what the hell happened to Kathy after Florida?) Also would’ve loved to hear if they regretted how they wrote the last season based upon the massive fan backlash on how they wrote Pam. It felt there was a lot of coverage on the first 7 seasons (because of Steve Carell) and the last 2 seasons were covered in a rushed way and as an afterthought, too. As great as Steve Carell was, I could’ve lived without 6 pages of people saying how great he was and some more meat on these issues that all of us mega fans would’ve loved to have cleared up, but all in all, a really good, well researched book.
9 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- bnv
- 2020-04-06
Boring
Equivalent of a magazine article. Anti-Trump digs typical of Hollywood crowd. Don’t waste your money.
5 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Adam P. Shipman
- 2020-04-07
Instead of voice actors,
I liked the book, but I didn’t like the voice actors trying to sound like the people in the book. I’d rather it actually be the people or just someone reading it. Comes off as fake with people trying too hard. Good content though.
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- C. L.
- 2020-05-11
A Fun Dive Into Dunder Mifflin
This book told stories I’d never heard and gave context to some pieces of the series I’d never have known otherwise. It was a fun way to add to my experience as a serial watcher. My biggest critique was that I disliked most of the actors who voiced the quotes from actors on the show. I would have preferred the author narrate the whole thing— to have some British guy doing a vaguely Rocky Gervais voice felt odd and out of place. Listeners will know these actors’ voices and to hear them being poorly impersonated is dissatisfying. I’m also surprised at just how many quotes there are from Kate Flannery. Don’t get me wrong, I love her, but it’s strange to have SO many quotes from one of the shows more minor (though beloved and integral) characters and next to nothing from so many major players.
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Andrew Weber
- 2020-03-28
Disappointed to not hear the actual voices in this oral history
This was a great inside look at The Office. I was disappointed that the oral history was not with the actual cast and crew voices.
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Lynn C.
- 2020-03-25
Great listen for fans, and creative thinkers!
Such a great book, at a perfect time. With so many people at home, probably watching Netflix and other media, here comes a new look at what is a show many people have watched over and over. I loved the insight into a show that seems simple and mundane, which all our lives are right now, but is really complex and thought out. I also loved the interaction between writers. As an avid reader for my whole life, there are times when you think, I should write. But being a critic I feel I would never live up to my own scrutiny. Listening to writers argue over plots and storylines in the same voice I had watching the show, makes me feel a part of this show in a small way.
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Kyle Bryans
- 2020-06-17
Skip the audiobook. Get the hard copy instead.
Office fans will love the insight to the show. The performance is cringe, and not in a good way. Very broken up with quotes. No real “story”. Pick up the hard copy no doubt, but skip the audio version.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Brennen Johnson
- 2020-04-01
Quotes the book
This is mainly quotes the book. It has a few interesting stories from the writers that they took from their life into episodes. In my opinion the podcast office Ladies dose a better job at doing what I thought this book would be about and shares a good portion of the content the book. The book really takes quite a few pc turns out of nowhere for no reason other than to be preachy.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anonymous User
- 2020-11-25
Narration
The narrators did a great job. But it would've been much much better to have the cast and the crew reading their own lines.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Shannon Fulton
- 2020-11-22
I really enjoyed this
it was an easy listen - I agree with others that the attempted voices were a lose, but the story itself was great. it's helped me to watch the series in a new light - thinking about how producers were behind the fax machine. or that the actors were struggling not to break :)