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Office Ladies

The Paper Interviews #4 with Ramona Young & Gbemisola Ikumelo

Office Ladies

Audacy & Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

Comedy, Tv & Film, After Shows

4.887.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This Friday on Office Ladies 6.0, we have another special bonus episode where Jenna and Angela interview both Ramona Young and Gbemisola Ikumelo who are in the upcoming “Office” spinoff “The Paper”! Ramona talks about how she got her job on “The Paper” and how working on the show differs from past projects. Ramona also shares how she’s worked with Angela three times! Then the ladies talk with Gbemisola Ikumelo who both writes and acts on “The Paper” and she shares how she was cast first and then was invited to the writers’ room. Gbemisola also talks about how her character’s look evolved. This is another great bonus episode, are you ready for “The Paper” on September 4th?! Office Ladies Website - Submit a fan question: https://officeladies.com/submitaquestion  Follow Us on Instagram: OfficeLadiesPod Follow Us on YouTubeFollow Us on TikTok To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hello. Happy Friday, everyone. We are getting really close to the premiere of the paper.

0:08.9

Yeah, it's next week. It's Thursday, September 4th. And then our breakdown of the pilot comes out September 10th.

0:16.0

I know. Ah! There is no special episode next Friday because we assume you're all going to be busy watching the paper.

0:24.4

Yes. So today we have two interviews for you. The first one is with Ramona Young. You might know her from Mindy Kaling's show Never Have I Ever. She played Eleanor or maybe on DC's Legends of Tomorrow.

0:40.4

And you know, we've been sharing in these interviews how during our set visit, we were just grabbing people as they became available.

0:46.4

Well, within like seven minutes of talking to Ramona, a production assistant came over and

0:51.3

pulled her back to set. I know. And she's so lovely. She shared some

0:55.5

fun tidbits. But because our interview with her was cut so short, we thought that after the break,

1:01.0

you could hear the interview we did with Bemisola Ikumelo, who was both a writer and an actor on the show.

1:07.1

She was also a writer and actor on the TV series, A League of Their Own. Yes, carrying on the tradition of having writer performers on a Greg Daniels show.

1:16.0

Yeah.

1:16.6

You know, we'll have even more to share about that when we get to our full breakdown of the paper.

1:20.4

But let's jump in.

1:21.9

Here are your interviews with Ramona Young and Bimisola Ikemelo.

1:29.6

Ramona, thank you so much for talking to office ladies today about your role on the paper.

1:35.2

Can you tell us your character's name and who she is in the world of the show?

1:40.4

Yes, I like that you're holding the microphone like a reporter.

1:47.4

Yeah, so my character's name is Nicole Lee. She works in circulation. So basically, that means she mass emails people who are signed up and she keeps subscriptions going.

2:01.5

How did you get your job on the paper? We always like to hear people's like origin stories.

2:07.8

I sent, it was a long process. It took like several months and so it felt like a really big deal and it is.

2:15.9

But I started off with a self-tape. And then I did like a sit-down.

2:22.6

Did you guys have that too? Like a sit-down with just like Greg and I sat down with Greg and Michael

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