The Saturday Night Live alum was a fan of The Office and wanted to be a part of Carell's final season. “I just said, 'Hey, I know it's Steve's last year. I'd love to just go on and do a cameo,” Ferrell told Andy Greene, author of The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s.

What was the point of Deangelo in The Office?

Deangelo is to be the regional manager of the Dunder Mifflin Scranton Branch to replace long-time manager Michael Scott. In "Michael's Last Dundies", Deangelo and Michael host the Dundies at Louie Volpes, and Deangelo later sings Michael's Goodbye Song with the rest of the branch.

Is Will Ferrell funny in The Office?

But no guest star, at least in modern sitcom history, has felt as unnatural as Will Ferrell's role of "Deangelo Jeremetrius Vickers" in The Office. Don't get me wrong - Will Farrell is funny. He can a play a good, consistent character on a sitcom that he might not seem to belong in. ... They had Will Ferrell, who is funny.