Will Ferrell to Guest Star on THE OFFICE

According to Deadline.com, Will Ferrell is set to star in a multi-episode arc of The Office. Ferrell will play a 'branch manager who comes from the home office and is just as inappropriate as Steve Carell's Michael Scott character.'

Executive producer Paul Lieberstein said, "We found Steve Carell when he was nothing but a movie star and we turned him into a television star. We are proud to continue The Office's tradition of discovering famous talent, and we hope that once America gets a good look at Will, they'll see what we see, tremendous raw sexuality."

Ferrell made his Broadway debut taking on departing U.S. President George W. Bush in a one-man show called You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush. The show started performances on January 20, 2009, in previews-Bush's final day in office-at the Cort Theatre and opened officially on February 1. The limited engagement played through March 15, 2009.

The Office is an American comedy television series broadcast by NBC. An adaptation of the BBC series of the same name, it depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. To simulate the look of an actual documentary, it is filmed in a single-camera setup, without a studio audience or a laugh track. It airs at 9PM on Thursdays on NBC.