{"id":233668,"date":"2025-10-18T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233668\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:19:07","slug":"steve-carell-reunites-with-the-office-costar-jenna-fischer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233668\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Carell reunites with &#8216;The Office&#8217; costar Jenna Fischer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenna Fischer shared a video of herself reuniting with her Office costar Steve Carell on Instagram.The 40-Year-Old Virgin star was supporting his former Dunder Mifflin coworker at her play Ashland Avenue.Angela Kinsey, Ellie Kemper, and Kate Flannery all left comments expressing their excitement about the reunion on Fischer&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/steve-carell\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Carell<\/a> is showing some love to Pam-casso.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The 40-Year-Old Virgin actor reunited with his <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/the-office\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Office<\/a> costar <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/jenna-fischer\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Fischer<\/a> following a performance of her play Ashland Avenue in Chicago on Thursday night.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Carell attended the play alongside his wife, SNL alum Nancy Carell, and could be seen greeting fans and hyping up his former costar near the stage door in a video that Fischer shared on Instagram on Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p> Steve Carell and Jenna Fischer at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago on Oct. 16, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Jenna Fischer\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_9-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> &#8220;Look who came to my art show,&#8221; Fischer wrote in her caption. &#8220;Love you Steve and Nancy!&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_11-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The actress&#8217; caption referenced the season 3 episode of The Office titled &#8220;Business School,&#8221; in which bumbling boss Michael Scott (Carell) displays his surprising soft side when he&#8217;s the sole Dunder Mifflin employee who genuinely supports receptionist Pam Beesley (Fischer) at a gallery show displaying her paintings. (Oscar Nu\u00f1ez&#8217;s Oscar and David Denman&#8217;s Roy also show face at the event, but lack the enthusiasm and approval that Pam clearly seeks in her artistic endeavors.)\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_15-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Other Office stars expressed their excitement over Carell and Fischer&#8217;s reunion in the comments of the actress&#8217; post.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_17-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Angela Kinsey, who played condescending accountant Angela on the series and hosts the recap podcast Office Ladies with Fischer, wrote, &#8220;Tearing up over here!! Love this so much!&#8221;\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p> Steve Carell and Jenna Fischer on &#8216;The Office&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>NBC<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_20-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Ellie Kemper, who portrayed receptionist Erin on later seasons of the show, commented, &#8220;This makes me so happy!!!!&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Kate Flannery, who played chaotic sales rep Meredith on the sitcom (and seemingly didn&#8217;t read Fischer&#8217;s caption), wrote, &#8220;It\u2019s kinda Like Michael coming to Pam\u2019s art show.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_26-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/ew-dispatch-newsletter-11812417\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_28-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Carell is not the first Office alum to support Fischer&#8217;s play. Rainn Wilson, who portrayed the iconic assistant (to the) regional manager on the series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOkcb0_DutL\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted a photo<\/a> alongside his former costar while holding an Ashland Avenue playbill in September.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_30-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> &#8220;I saw a beautiful play tonight,&#8221; he wrote, &#8220;starring the brilliant and beautiful @msjennafischer.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_32-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Ed Helms, who played doofus salesman Andy beginning in season 3 of the show, commented, &#8220;Thrilled, proud, and JEALOUS!&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_34-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Fischer will give her final four Ashland Avenue performances this weekend at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmantheatre.org\/show\/ashland-avenue\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Goodman&#8217;s Albert Theatre<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenna Fischer shared a video of herself reuniting with her Office costar Steve Carell on Instagram.The 40-Year-Old Virgin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-233668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}