josh groban played andy bernard's brother on the office.
josh groban played andy bernard's brother on the office.
who plays andy bernard's brother on the office?
josh groban
andy bernard (ed helms) decides to throw a garden party at schrute farms to impress his parents and robert california (james spader), and exhaustively explains party manners to the office workers. andy is jealous at the amount of attention his younger brother walter bernard, jr. (josh groban) receives from his father, and thinks that by throwing an elaborate party he can ensure his father's blessings. at first, the party goes along smoothly. andy makes a toast to robert in order to get his fellow employees to toast him, as if to show to his parents and california that he is valued by his employees. his plan backfires, however, and instead more people toast robert. to get everybody's mind off of robert, andy decides to sing "more than words" as a duet with his father. this too goes awry as his father corrects his playing and singing, and ultimately decides to sing a duet with walter jr. instead of andy. upset, andy takes his guitar and storms off. his father confronts him privately about his outburst, and when andy admits to trying to win his father's affection, he reacts with annoyance. this conversation is overheard by the other staff on the baby monitor jim (john krasinski) and pam halpert (jenna fischer) brought for their daughter, and pam quickly turns off the monitor to let andy save face. darryl philbin (craig robinson) and oscar martinez (oscar nunez) confide to the camera that they now understand why andy feels he needs to prove himself to everyone. after his family leaves, a dejected andy, feeling unwanted by his family and co-workers, says goodbye to the office staff as they turn the garden party into a barbecue. darryl and oscar, however, convince andy to stay with a cheeseburger and a beer.
garden party (the office)
helms left the show in 2006, but has occasionally returned for brief appearances. on july 21, 2008 he returned for obama quest – a segment covering senator barack obama's trip to iraq. he occasionally narrates the prescott group educational films on sister series "the colbert report". in late july 2006, nbc announced that helms was added to the cast of the mockumentary "the office", alongside fellow "the daily show" correspondent steve carell, in a recurring role as andy bernard, a nostalgic cornell graduate who is obsessed with a cappella music. helms was a series regular starting with the 3rd season. "he had so much in common with this character we wanted to create," recalled paul lieberstein, a writer for the show who also plays toby flenderson, the human resources representative at the scranton branch of dunder mifflin. "i can't remember when they started merging." helms returned to "the daily show" on december 5, 2006, stating he had been gone because he was "undercover at a paper company in scranton", an allusion to his stint on "the office". in february 2007, nbc announced that helms had been promoted to series regular, and in february 2010 helms was added to the show's opening credits. helms quickly became a solidifying part of the cast, and eventually came to be one of the show's producers. in june 2009, on a radio interview with national public radio, helms said that like his character, andy bernard, he is obsessed with a cappella music.
ed helms