Olyphant made occasional guest appearances on comedy television shows during "Justified"s six-season run. He played a paper salesman in two episodes of the NBC comedy "The Office" (2010), after Mindy Kaling, a writer, producer and actress on the show, pushed for him to make a guest appearance. In 2012, he played a character billed as White Sushi Chef in an episode of the FX sitcom "The League" (2012) and voiced a character in an episode of the FX animated series "Archer". In 2013, he appeared as a love interest on the Fox comedy "The Mindy Project". The guest appearance came about after he told Kaling that he wanted to appear on the show and he later said he would have been happy to play his middle-aged skateboarder character for "years."