Brian Baumgartner may be a part of TV history, but that doesn’t mean he wants to relive it.
The actor — currently starring in a dizzying Super Bowl 2026 commercial — contributed to some of the greatest moments on the NBC workplace comedy series The Office across his series-long run as the lovable doof Kevin Malone. WhileThe Office is among the most beloved and rewatched modern sitcoms and Baumgartner certainly still loves the series, until very recently, he refused to rewatch it.
“A lot of tim
es I won’t even watch something I’ve done once. I don’t know, because it’s done, and there’s nothing I can do about it now,” Baumgartner tells EW during a conversation about his wild new partnership with the financial technology company Ramp. That collab has so far resulted in a bizarre act of public “performance art,” a pre-game ad which sees him cloned dozens of times over, and a massive tailgate for Baumgartner look-alikes that took place before the big game.
Before his Super Bowl engagement, something finally broke down the floodgates, returning him back Dunder Mifflin HQ.
Brian Baumgartner may be a part of TV history, but that doesn’t mean he wants to relive it.
The actor — currently starring in a dizzying Super Bowl 2026 commercial — contributed to some of the greatest moments on the NBC workplace comedy series The Office across his series-long run as the lovable doof Kevin Malone. WhileThe Office is among the most beloved and rewatched modern sitcoms and Baumgartner certainly still loves the series, until very recently, he refused to rewatch it.
“A lot of times I won’t even watch something I’ve done once. I don’t know, because it’s done, and there’s nothing I can do about it now,” Baumgartner tells EW during a conversation about his wild new partnership with the financial technology company Ramp. That collab has so far resulted in a bizarre act of public “performance art,” a pre-game ad which sees him cloned dozens of times over, and a massive tailgate for Baumgartner look-alikes that took place before the big game.
Before his Super Bowl engagement, something finally broke down the floodgates, returning him back Dunder Mifflin HQ.
But now the next generation of Office fans is rising — beginning in Baumgartner’s own home.
“My kids are starting to watch it now, so it’s occasionally on in the house now,” he shares. “I’ll sit down and watch some with them.”
Baumgartner says that he still has a hard time thinking about “the 50 shots you hit great” over “the one that you missed.” But the upside is that his kids “love Kevin. Kevin certainly appeals to them, and so does Dwight (Wilson). It’s been a lot of stuff that they’ve heard about over the years, so different moments and interactions make them laugh, because they have some familiarity.”
