new details about "The Office" spinoff emerge

A new Variety article has revealed our first details of The Office spinoff.

First, they've made their first hire, Aziz Ansari, from MTV's sketch comedy show Human Giant. Dude is hilarious, and I can picture him fitting in perfectly in The Office's style of comedy. He's also guest starred in an episode of Flight of the Conchords. Cool beans.

Also, it appears that it won't be a spinoff in the traditional sense. It's unlikely that any of the characters on the current show will be on the spinoff. It might be a "planted spinoff," where the new characters on introduced on The Office in maybe an episode. It also might not be a spinoff at all, just a show in the "similar vein" of the current show.

They've also hired writers from Conan, South Park, and Everybody Loves Raymond.

The new show premiers in winter, and will air right after The Office.

Sweet.