Why Hollywood Won't Cast B.J. Novak Anymore

B.J. Novak began gaining comedic notoriety when he became Ashton Kutcher’s lead accomplice on his hit MTV prank show, Punk’d. But it was not until he was cast as the temp. Ryan Howard on the hit sitcom The Office that Novak started turning heads. Novak also became a producer and writer on the show, writing 15 episodes throughout the show's 9 seasons.
After The Office ended, Novak’s most notable roles were in Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds and the period drama Saving Mr. Banks.
But lately, it seems as though Novak has disappeared from showbiz. Has Hollywood had enough of this talented actor and writer or is he just taking a break? Here's why Hollywood won't cast B.J. Novak.
#Hollywood #Celeb #Actor
He was never a leading man | 0:00
Major breakthrough | 1:05
Success as an author | 1:47
He wants to direct | 2:32
He also made an app | 3:13
A future in politics? | 3:33
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[@Looper]

What other actors should we feature next?

[@carterjohnson7117]

Ok

[@matthewkresal6810]

Kevin Costner

[@WafflesYo]

ones people know xD

[@wallygator92]

Matthew Broderick

[@Kavilion]

Judge Death yeah that’s a good one

[@rainatl5y]

We all know it's just because he started the fire

[@maxjones6354]

RYAN STARTED THE FIRE!

[@L.T.141]

*FIRE GUY*

[@demo3946]

Yo it’s the fire guy

[@lilbud1520]

Please explain this to me I've seen every episode and do not understand

[@demo3946]

@@lilbud1520 remember when he set dundler mifflin on fire and it was cause he didn’t know how long to cook pita bread

[@IsaTehGothicMando]

So, it's not that Hollywood doesnt wont cast him, it's that he's not interested in acting.

[@sloppygran]

most of loopers "why hollywood wont cast..." is that the person themselves are doing other things

[@GrandDukeCaesar]

IsaTehGothicMando Got damn it you beat me to it by five days. I was going to say the EXACT same thing

[@tehgame100]

Tiberius Caligula you beat me to it by 23 hours! I was literally gonna say the exact same thing you commented

[@smewgle]

I wanna like this comment but I don't wanna ruin your 666.

[@GrandDukeCaesar]

smewgle 669 now

[@esil246]

ryan started the fiyyaaa

[@EziooAuditore]

FIRE GUY

[@amberlynnheath3823]

I appreciate this comment so much

[@Harry-tj6bl]

what's up man? Can't spell fire? You got the internet at your fingers and you can't spell fire. Unlucky pal... Unlucky...

[@zahradahiri3855]

I was looking for this comment.

[@alexwall4866]

It’s been burnin since the temps been workin

[@funkitala]

I thought this was going to be a sad video about BJ Novak's failure as an actor or a scandal or something, but he is actually doing pretty well.

[@kellz3920]

ye

[@LeoSRL300]

Most of the videos from this channel's series are like that.

[@Manny44667]

Clickbate be hitting hard

[@ToshJury]

"Why Dunder Mifflin wont pay Ryan Howard anymore"

[@dayglo98]

Ryan started the fiiiire !!

[@nataliamurrell2846]

lol

[@milesmanfar740]

I don't really get why so many people liked this post. I liked it though just to be number 500. Congrats!

[@ToshJury]

Are you negging me?

[@aaronrodriguez3251]

Would you pay a guy if he defrauded your company?

[@sleeping.helper]

He created an App. No shit, we all know, it's Dunder Mifflin Infinity and Infinity 2.0

[@BasedSwag420yolo]

wuphf

[@hitthegoat]

2.0 is still tbd tho

[@ImaginaryHuman072889]

you should call it "dunder mifflinfinity"

[@addisonhunt2066]

And wuphf

[@mancatopole495]

Hitthegoat tdb, as michael would put it

[@DarksidePride]

So hollywood wont cast him? or hes off doing bigger and better things with his life.? very clear video

[@YouTubeKnight]

Surprise!

[@alphahotelromeo]

The app he’s releasing is WUPHF

[@perotin211]

I just got wuphfed!

[@willtrevizo3388]

Beautiful 😫

[@jonny6479]

Washington University something something something

[@783rajesh]

Came here for this. 😂

[@mckenna6179]

don’t know if you guys have seen, but there is a video of him advertising WUPHF. just search WUPHF video :)

[@ThexInsidexMan]

I *love* when the reason for one of these videos is "they were too busy chasing other dreams and being successful" feelsgoodman

[@k_a_y_l_e_e]

I don't think he ever really wanted to be an actor; I think he always wanted to be a comic and a writer.

[@Safwan.Hossain]

yeah the vid title is stupid

[@RandomNameName]

Wanted to be a comic?

[@skoolsux903]

El Spooky do you not know what a comic is?

[@sentinal_entity]

@@skoolsux903 No it's the fact that she said he wanted to be a comic instead of a comic writer that probably confused him

[@mythusharma9139]

Wuphf

[@3pointsmeet]

They won’t cast him anymore because he cost Dunder Mifflin millions of dollars.

[@slamandjam2]

TVLouie hundreds of thousands of dollars*

[@3pointsmeet]

I stand corrected.

[@Awesomo665]

I don’t care if he killed his whole family! He is like a son!

[@3pointsmeet]

Rahul Parmar 😂

[@jaycutler1407]

Rahul Parmar lmao was I the only who thought to myself “oh the irony” when I heard mike say that

[@spacecowboy534]

i’ll never understand why people willingly take the nickname B.J.

[@dayspoiler4608]

it was the done thing back in the day. there was even a TV show "BJ and the bear"

[@Mark-OutWest]

BJ Hunicutt

[@JumpinJoe]

Aside from the obvious jokes it's a cool abbreviation. Easy to say-- it rolls off the tongue.

[@ultrapaladin]

He has roots as a comedian, the guy literally said it on the video. My lord.

[@lindahoyman9590]

What about B.J. Thomas?

[@carterjohnson7117]

Probably because RYAN STARTED THE FIYAH!!!

[@Imperious123]

Making a Cheesy Pita

[@rainatl5y]

Carter Johnson I can literally hear them singing that.

[@JuliaSimmonss]

This is the best comment ever.

[@mooly8693]

Carter Johnson I just commented that then saw this😂

[@TheBlarggle]

More like "Why BJ Novak is too busy to consider acting right now."

[@dickrichard99]

Do a Why Isn’t Looper relevant on KZbin anymore

[@uncreativelynamedchannel5887]

Wait, there was a time when Looper was relevant?

[@ThatLemonPancake]

None of these points have anything to do with why he wouldn't be cast anymore. You're just showing the fact he's been too busy to have a lot of screentime.

[@jamesotaji3334]

tbh It seems like he's doing bigger & better things

[@helenf.7221]

Yea looper fucking sucks

[@shawndamichelle639]

And that he’s not interested!

[@artenis444]

Title was misleading lol

[@anthonyboy]

He was underrated on the office. Ryan used to crack me up

[@TurtleReefReal]

anthonyboy me too! before he got the promotion at corporate, i actually quite enjoyed him. he wasn’t my favorite, but i never understood the hate before his promotion.

[@eggsdietdiary]

No one in The Office is underrated

[@jaybell3698]

It’s because he became a ceo and replaced a women and then got fired because he went on a drug overdose. Duh. Now he works in his first job again where he used to before he became ceo. His boss really liked him

[@voodoomamajuju2455]

So if I’m understanding this correctly...bj actually just played himself in the office. Just changed his name to ryan

[@ActorsWithIssuespodcast]

"Why BJ Novak doesn't act anymore" is what it should be called. I'm sure he doesn't need much money with the residuals he gets from The Office. Same for the rest of the cast, though a lot of them have booked national commercials which is where the real money is.

[@zoom7676]

RYANNN STARTED THE FIRRREE

[@daveyflave9936]

Zoom Hahahaha somebody didn’t learn how to use a toaster oven in business school! Shoulda put a timer for that cheese pita

[@TheGreatBoomy25]

Doesn't sound like they "won't cast him". Sounds more like he likes to do EVERYTHING under the Sun and doesn't have time.

[@virekin0t719]

I thought it was gonna be something like “and this is how he ruined his career” but it turns out he’s too successful to be an actor 😂

[@JohnLee-me3vg]

Why Hollywood won't cast heath ledger anymore!

[@chickennuggetmaster3602]

John Lee I laughed super hard at this.

[@catshumpcats3]

You win best comment of 2018

[@matthewfranco1786]

Thomas Rainn you clearly don’t appreciate dark humor.

[@ODSTWILL7675]

Too soon LOL

[@estebanb7166]

John Lee A lot of producers think he looks stiff on camera

[@chovue2363]

I genuinely like all the small roles he does. Guy can steal scenes.

[@dayspoiler4608]

he created an app that was so successful he shut it down and started making another. this is the most confusing concept i have ever heard

[@AlexTheGamer97]

Yeah I don't get why you would shut an app down. It's like the flappy bird guy who was making thousands a day but took it off the app store because of death threats

[@stephenmcneil4573]

Holy shit I forgot about that app. I was still in high school then, I remember we spent a chem class watching my teacher play that game.

[@LastbutNotFirst]

apps take a ton of resources, constant updates.. constant coding and competitors... you shut it down so you dont continue to dump resources into something you're not going to take to the next level. like any software..I.E. windows XP is shut down.. you can still get windows XP - you are just not going to get any sort of support whatsoever. Same with his app.

[@dariannk7552]

elaborate scam, I sensed a Ponzi scheme; He's the kind of guy who would run away (He did to "Thailand" once) after getting all the money he needs.

[@MrMetalbandit]

Darian Kuswanto Thailand was a lie. He went to Fort Lauderdale

[@ben_jamin4529]

Blow Job Novak

[@johnsmith7759]

Ben_jamin that's what she said

[@splichalsplach]

Blowen_jobjamin

[@jaybird8009]

"He's known for his bigger roles like spiderman 2" looper... he only had 3 lines in that movie, his on air screen time was about 33 seconds.

[@kylebarnoski5038]

Because he started the fire

[@bryzantine1571]

He's more of a writer that's why

[@butterfly02081]

He could pass for Seth Myers.

[@WallabytheThumper]

butterfly02081 I don't see it haha

[@joshbutler3426]

butterfly02081 Looks to me like a cross between Seth Myers and Aaron Rodgers

[@ARedGinger]

butterfly02081 I was going to say they are the same person! Thank you.

[@MarcusWolford]

Looking for a picture of Seth Meyers brother now to see if you’re right. Edit: Honestly he looks more like Seth, not his brother Josh.

[@isaiahgonzalez7782]

Kinda kinda looks like Sheldon Cooper

[@AnneettaLife]

I never cared for his acting, but he seems to be doing well with other things, so good for him.

[@stephenmcneil4573]

In terms of the office, liked his acting early on, but I didn't really like where his character went after like season 6. I also liked him in the screen time he got in the Founder.

[@Ez_I_Dd]

Stephen McNeil His character was an ass. But he's an okay actor.

[@bricklee12]

I really liked his character before as a temp being teased by micheal , after getting promoted and going to jail he just turnes into a douche

[@mitchw7118]

He was solid in Inglorious Basterds.

[@daveizluv2626]

BJ Novak is mentioned in the book "Thank And Grow Rich" by Pam Grout (obviously a riff on "Think And Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill).......Novak before he leaves in the morning, "powers up" in which he fills himself with amazing joy and allows it take him to wherever he wants to go. He has the ultimate attitude toward life and he is reaping the rewards.....definitely someone to be admired.

[@tonatiuhcortes9968]

This is the first “Why Hollywood won’t cast...anymore” I’ve seen in which the celebrity didn’t fall off or become irrelevant or was only seen as the role they played but he made something of himself and if pursuing something greater. Good shit Novak

[@ptolover7]

B.J. wasn't hired for The Office as an actor who just happened to stumble into the writing side of things eventually. He, Mindy Kaling, and Paul Lieberstein were all hired specifically to be writer/actors right off the bat. He wrote Diversity Day, the second ever episode of the show.

[@lukeferraro01]

He was in the founder last year. He never was consistently casted by he still gets steady work

[@BobTheHilkin710]

At least he's still eating off that office money though.

[@ryan29550]

It's because he started the fire

[@diegoperez726]

Fire Guy!!!

[@ourevilone]

lol its always like "oh they became a producer" blah

[@fiachraoneil4492]

ssd27 yeah no one will cast em ...because they became a success in something else

[@ChairLEEtheUNICORN]

I love when these videos are like this person is in the movies anymore because they’re doing great

[@anonymousman5573]

Just so you guys know, he's actually in the middle of directing and starring in his own movie called "Vengeance". Considering how he's directed some of the best episodes in The Office, I'm actually looking forward to it

[@RideShareTips]

Adam Scott auditioned for The Office. He would of made a great Ryan as well

[@__________________4241]

Ryan started the fire

[@bradoozy]

This is probably one of the most optimistic futures for an actor

[@GameAGuy]

They skipped Saving Mr. Banks . The "Does it Matter" scene was great

[@isthatajojoreference]

This is more like he doesn't want to be much of an actor than Hollywood not letting him act.

[@CutCopyPasta]

You guys should stop using the same damn title and just make it about their success. What a load of bologna. BJ is killing the game. Love him.

[@L8-APEX]

RYAN STARTED THE FIIIIRE!!!!!

[@FairyFrequency]

Awesome! Wishing you a beautiful day x) 🦋

[@buckleygeneration]

These videos are all so stupid. Every title implies a blacklisting of some kind, when it’s always a lot more mundane.

[@scottieman2]

Doesn't hire or just want to be in front of the camera??

[@zainabbas9416]

When I read the title I thought he wasn't that successful and has faded to smaller jobs but it seems like he has been very successful after Hollywood. Good for him

[@johnnyblackmeattobagon4905]

My school actually had an assembly reading the book without any pictures for the younger kids.

[@archibaldhaddock5474]

Why I wont be watching Looper videos anymore.

[@scottieman2]

No leading man doesn't mean can't hire him.

[@darealberrygarcia]

He was good in The Founder too

[@sophiedufresne7459]

I was literally expecting some scandal like the one Ryan created when getting arrested but I got the complete opposite 😂😂

[@Punch_Brother]

Man, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel now. The title of this should be "What B.J. Novak is doing instead of acting".

[@wesley-skyehayes26]

So is he dating mindy? they look like they are together.

[@seancallahan7011]

I’m glad that it wasn’t a refusal to cast, rather a conflict of interests. Shows he never became a shitty guy.

[@elizabethjane5572]

I can confirm that kids really love The Book With No Pictures, I did reading with seven year olds last year and I had to read the book like five separate times

[@dog8438]

But he was in The Founder...

[@jberczi6]

Very talented individual

[@n3nshat11]

Lol the I can't draw part was good. He's genuinely funny. His satire is spot on.

[@randallholloway8686]

I've never gone from not liking someone to liking them from one of your videos 👌 all the best to him

[@420dankreddit2]

thought it was gonna be sad but good for him haha

[@ianbotello3950]

Please do Matthew broderick

[@iFailGames]

Glad to hear he's doing well. Good on him!

[@someonerandom4903]

OMG I remember wanting to buy the book with no pictures as a kid!!!

[@billyjoeidel2]

Very misleading title. Shame on you

[@lindyodegard6148]

These comments have me deceased😂

[@mikem4314]

he may not have ever been a leading man but damn id love to see him as one. im surprised hes never starred in at least a smaller indie movie. his dry delivery could be perfect for a day-in-the-life type movie

[@amandaderp9263]

He seems like the last one to get called out for the me too movement

[@MrSaLVideos]

First Black in the comment section.

[@WallabytheThumper]

Bas Saliu Congrats man!

[@Chrexter]

This is exactly what MLKJ dreamed

[@pittsburghmike5962]

Yeah and hopefully the last

[@Kavilion]

A major stride

[@blackdot3538]

It's ok to be white.

[@TKinfinity01]

He’s not a good actor..... he’s a great writer but he’s a stone wall in front of the camera.

[@GhOsTLYSpiRAL]

TKinfinity cuz he’s a character actor lol

[@TKinfinity01]

GhOsTLY SpiRAL If the character is a pile of pudding i agree. Lol

[@GhOsTLYSpiRAL]

TKinfinity well I mean he was perfect for his role in the Office, it’s just not too many shows need those types of characters anymore

[@TKinfinity01]

GhOsTLY SpiRAL I didnt like his character in the office. He seemed too Bland and unoredictable. I liked him sometimes but other times he made me mad. I liked it when he got put in the closet though.

[@GhOsTLYSpiRAL]

TKinfinity Hahahaha yea “is there WiFi in here?” 😂😂😂

[@toben42]

He can't even make toast without evacuating the entire building.

[@parkerposey8628]

You forgot about his biggest role in threat level midnight

[@alextownley9388]

I have absolutely no clue who this guy is 😂

[@sleeping.helper]

Alex Townley oh man, you never watched The Office? C'mon man! That is unexcusable!!!

[@guccishima]

Alex Townley Me neither. I bet 99.9% of this acct's subscribers don't know either. Seriously.

[@alextownley9388]

Wagner Rezende nope, and I have no desire to.

[@tricepspower]

Awkward humor at it's finest. Not for everyone.

[@dayspoiler4608]

yeh fix yourself. watch some office. you're broken until you do

[@georgedoty-williams2085]

I loved him as one of the Sherman Brothers in Saving Mr. Banks

[@aayushs8128]

He is so gifted.

[@barih4prez]

Those EP royalties from office will have him and his next few generations set for life

[@connoriquada5429]

So the issue isn’t that Hollywood won’t cast him, he just isn’t trying to be an actor.

[@Canyouhereit]

they made it seem like he was out fucking up his life or something. its very clear he doesn't really wont to act. he's a behind the scene guy and seem to be rocking it

[@cigeretteconnoisseur]

i really thought this would be some sad cracks story but i love how wholesome this is

[@readifer]

i like that they forget to mention that he's the lead producer/writer of the office x D

[@AlexSanchez-ff3uh]

Ryan, I need Ryan

[@zackelias01]

"He was never a leading man" "Good luck mayor Novak"

[@rmrdnl]

He became a writer

[@mroof6121]

Ryan started the fire! It was always burning since the world has been turning!

[@rl4441]

"After I acted on this show, I realised I wanted to direct" Why does this sound like a subtle roast 🤣🤣

[@yujuti8416]

The title should be "Why B.J Novak is not acting anymore". It's not that Hollywood doesn't want him, it's him not interested in acting that much.

[@disco.lemonade]

Im glad to see the temp guy made it big.

[@Andrew04291]

Thanks for the TL; DW in the description.

[@banacek8675]

After starting the fire, Hollywood realized he could be a serious wild fire hazard.

[@olivernote9162]

“I want to put my name on buildings, I want to be rich and important and a businessman” are not good reasons to go into politics. Though I suppose it hasn’t stopped the vast majority of career politicians.

[@Joker19290]

His an comedian, writer, director and producer.

[@yellopops]

RYAN STARTED THE FIRE