Abstract
Popular NBC comedy series The Office has captured young adult audiences for many years, loved by fans across the country. Over the course of its nine season run, the show created a strong comedic identity that resonated with many other Americans experiencing similar situations in their own lives. Viewers follow the workplace shenanigans of Michael Scott, regional manager of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company’s Scranton, Pennsylvania branch, and his humorous interactions with his coworkers. The Office successfully creates engaging humor while connecting to the audience through the use of relatable characters, situations, and cultural connections. This critical analysis examines how the show uses mockumentary conventions to convey fake realism and relatable situations and characters that allows the audience to derive humor.
How to Cite
Tysiac, A., (2021) “The Office: Humorous Fake Realism Created Through Mockumentary Conventions”, Capstone, The UNC Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship 34(1).
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