How the TV Mockumentary Has ‘Become the Modern Laugh Track’

Twenty years ago, Greg Daniels learned an important lesson about making mockumentaries by way of a basketball game. He was directing the fifth episode of “The Office” — Season 1’s now-famous “Basketball”  and his first behind the camera. The hilariously chaotic pickup game in the Dunder Mifflin warehouse allowed the cast to play off the […]