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This article focuses on the construction of embarrassment humor in the British sitcom  The Office  (BBC 2001–2003) and will identify various aspects of this kind of humor at work by employing a multilayered analysis of the format. The analysis will focus on the specific discourse of embarrassment humor and its relation to performance and narrative will be examined through textual analysis and contextualization. Finally, I will propose an embarrassment trigger model, which will provide an overview of the various areas of social interaction and conduct that the format’s humourous discourse draws from. The study will evaluate in what ways  The Office ’s embarrassment humor challenges an audience’s viewing pleasure by negotiating issues of empathy and moral disengagement with the conventions of darker forms of mediated humor and comedy.

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