The Office star Brian Baumgartner teases wild Super Bowl stunt involving 'hundreds' of look-alike...

The sitcom star will be on the ground in San Francisco on game day for what he's calling &34;the largest tailgate&34; in city history. The Office star Brian Baumgartner teases wild Super Bowl stunt involving 'hundreds' of lookalikes: 'There will be bald caps' The sitcom star will be on the ground in San Francisco on game day for what he's calling &34;the largest tailgate&34; in city history. By Ryan Coleman :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/RyanColemanauthorphoto0081ce8f0254478080f35972c433877b.

The sitcom star will be on the ground in San Francisco on game day for what he's calling "the largest tailgate" in city history.

The Office star Brian Baumgartner teases wild Super Bowl stunt involving 'hundreds' of look-alikes: 'There will be bald caps'

The sitcom star will be on the ground in San Francisco on game day for what he's calling "the largest tailgate" in city history.

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- *The Office *star Brian Baumgartner is planning a wild tailgate party in San Francisco on Super Bowl Sunday.

- As part of his ongoing game-day collaboration with the financial tech company Ramp, Baumgartner is throwing a "Brians party," he tells EW.

- "I know there will be bald caps," he jokes. "They're offering free shavings if you want to be really aggressive. So it will be a lot of fun."

Brian Baumgartner will be hosting a tailgate party before the 2026 Super Bowl on Sunday, and you're encouraged to join him. On one condition.

*The Office* star is cooking up something wild for game day — even wilder than what he's already unleashed via his new partnership with the financial technology company Ramp.

Back in October, the friendly face fans came to know and love as Kevin Malone on the NBC sitcom wore a worried grimace for seven straight hours while locked in a glass cubicle in the middle of New York City, where he attempted to process 600,000 expense reports. Then on Jan. 27, it all became clear when the company launched its pre-game ad starring Baumgartner, well, dozens of Baumgartners, frantically darting around an office attempting to pick up the slack of an entire workforce.

Baumgartner calls the cubicle stunt "the most challenging project that I've done in many, many years" in a conversation with **. And shooting the dizzyingly complex ad? "Probably the most technically challenging thing that I've ever done."

But that's nothing compared to what's coming.**

Baumgartner explains that if any fans, or even anyone morbidly curious, is in San Francisco before Super Bowl LX on Sunday, they can find him at the Fort Mason Pavilion in clear view of the Golden Gate Bridge from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. local time. That will be easier said than done, however, as he'll be mobbed by hundreds, potentially over 1,000 look-alikes.

The actor recalls the pitch to organize a "physical manifestation" of the pre-game ad, which resulted in "a tailgate party in San Francisco. Let's bring all the Brians together and let's see what it looks like to multiply myself hundreds or thousands of times over."

Baumgartner will arrive with a crew of 10 Brians, but the public is encouraged to attend dressed like him. Ramp has even made Brian bald caps available for pre-order, and the look-alike voted most Baumgartner-esque will win two tickets to see the Super Bowl with the actor.**

Brian Baumgartner for Ramp.

Baumgartner hypes up the event as "the largest tailgate in San Francisco," noting that at current, over 1,500 reservations have been made to attend.

"We're calling it a Brians party," he jokes. Baumgartner is careful to note that whomever it is that's determined to "embody me best" doesn't "have to look like me. They just have to embody me. But I know there will be bald caps. They're offering free shavings if you want to be really aggressive. So it will be a lot of fun."

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It's been 13 years since *The Office *aired its finale. Baumgartner starred as the lovable and bumbling accountant Kevin Malone across the series run, for the first season as a recurring character but for the following eight in a starring role. Though he's stayed busy in the time since, appearing on series like *The Goldbergs*, *Trash Truck*, and most recently *Suits LA*, where he played a fictionalized version of himself, his collaboration with Ramp has engaged his actorly skillset in a for more challenging way.

"What we did was essentially live performance art for eight hours," he says of the NYC cubicle stunt. "The idea was, one person being able to do all that in a day was destined to fail from the beginning without serious help. So I was set up to fail," he jokes.

While the subsequent ad was "creative and fun," he goes long on how "totally challenging" it was. "There's hundreds of me, literally. Yeah, we may have used some help with VFX, but I had to act almost all of those parts and have them laid in." From hitting his marks perfectly to timing runs down to precise milliseconds, the whole affair was a logistical puzzle.

Brian Baumgartner as Kevin Malone on 'The Office'.

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Baumgartner will be in good company on the airwaves on Super Bowl Sunday. Stars like Jennifer Aniston, Guy Fieri, and the cast of *Jurassic Park* have already teased their respective game-day ads.

But Baumgartner's starting the fun early, and in person. Those interested in attending the meeting of Brains can RSVP and read all the guidelines here.

Check out Baumgartner's full commercial during the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 8, beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT on NBC.

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