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The Office<\/em>‘s Brian Baumgartner tells EW why he waited years to rewatch the sitcom that made him a star.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n “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 says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Baumgartner finally returned to the series by necessity, after being tapped to host the Spotify original podcast An Oral History of The Office<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Brian Baumgartner<\/a>\u00a0may be a part of TV history, but that doesn’t mean he wants to relive it.<\/p>\n The actor \u2014 currently starring in a dizzying Super Bowl<\/a> 2026 commercial \u2014 contributed to some of the greatest moments on the NBC workplace comedy series The Office<\/em><\/a>\u00a0across his series-long run as the lovable doof Kevin Malone. WhileThe Office <\/em>is among the most beloved and rewatched modern sitcoms and Baumgartner certainly still loves the series, until very recently, he refused to rewatch it.<\/p>\n “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<\/a> 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>,” a pre-game ad<\/a> which sees him cloned dozens of times over, and a massive tailgate<\/a> for Baumgartner look-alikes that took place before the big game.<\/p>\n Before his Super Bowl engagement, something finally broke down the floodgates, returning him back Dunder Mifflin HQ.<\/p>\n