Kevin Malone

Kevin Malone is also the name of a former Los Angeles Dodgers general manager.

Kevin Malone is a fictional character from the US television series, The Office. He is played by Brian Baumgartner. Kevin's counterpart in the UK series is Keith Bishop.

Overview

Kevin Malone is an accountant at the fictitious paper distributor Dunder-Mifflin. Kevin is bald, overweight, and seems to have just two facial expressions: a scowl and an impish grin. He speaks in a slow, monotone voice, rarely expressing any emotion, although he is often prone to giggle at things that would typically amuse a child. Much of Kevin's humor derives from the incongruity between his deadpan personality and his juvenile sense of humor.

Biography

Kevin is typically quite subdued with his hangdog face, although he is known for making blunt or offensive comments regarding the other employees. He hints toward unbecoming Internet habits, most likely pornography, as alluded to in the episodes "E-mail Surveillance" and "Take Your Daughter to Work Day". He is very concerned about the e-mail surveillance uncovering the contents of his hard drive and actually flees an interview with the cameras in order to ensure that his stepdaughter had not found the same content.

Kevin is engaged to a woman named Stacy, who has a daughter named Abby. Stacy is the fourth woman to whom Kevin proposed, but the first to say yes, and he is happy, though he secretly considers her a second choice to one of the other women, Melissa Riley. Kevin plays drums and is also the lead singer in a local tribute band. The group initially was a Steve Miller Band tribute called "Jokers and Tokers", but recently refocused on the music of The Police, and rebranded accordingly as "Scrantonicity," a homage to their album Synchronicity. Kevin is a fan of the Detroit Pistons, his favorite foods are Cup noodles and M&M's, and his favorite movie is American Pie 2, he also likes Weekend at Bernie's. He is not given much responsibility by his supervisor, Angela Martin, although he enjoys the privilege allowed him of shredding company documents, in no small part because he simply enjoys shredding things. In "Healthcare", it was hinted that he suffers from anal fissures. In "Casino Night", he reveals that he won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2002.

Kevin is the only minor character in The Office to be directly based on a character from the British original version. He is based on Keith Bishop, who shares Kevin's lack of communication skills, and became particularly popular after an episode where boss David Brent conducts a staff appraisal, to which Keith stoically fails to respond to questions. Keith shares Kevin's musical interest (as a disc jockey, not a musician), but not Kevin's childish sense of humour.

Season 1

Kevin is one of the more featured supporting characters and has many comic moments. While making a basketball team for a game against the warehouse employees, Michael ignores Kevin's plea to join the team, but it later turns out that Kevin is in fact an excellent player, as opposed to Stanley Hudson, whom he asumed to be talented, though was actually clumsy and slow. He often tells people that Pam is "hot", and when Katy, a purse saleswoman, comes to the office, he tells Pam that Katy is prettier than her. On "Diversity Day", when the employees are given a card with a specific race written on it, Kevin is given "Italian". In the same episode, he attempts to re-enact an offensive "Chris Rock routine"—which Michael previously had done, prompting the diversity training—for his coworkers, causing Michael to tell Kevin that he butchered the routine.

Season 2

Kevin is the winner of the "Don't Go In There After Me" award at the 8th Annual Dundie Awards, (a reference his bathroom odor). This is referenced again later when he is seen coming out of the men's room with a lit candle. His favorite games to play at work are a paper football game which he and Oscar call "Hateball", and "How Many M&M's Can You Put In Your Mouth?" His favorite number is known to be 69 in reference to the the sexual position and tries to set the temperature to 69. On Michael's birthday, Kevin gets tested for skin cancer, which takes the mood away from party festivities, much to Michael's displeasure. The results end up negative (though Michael thought that meant that he had it). In 2002, Kevin won the $2,500 No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Tournament at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, so during "Casino Night", he thinks he can win a game of poker, but after losing, he admits that he "sucks". Jim and Pam encounter his band while searching for bands for Pam's wedding and Roy asks him to play for them which he accepts (although the marriage ends up being called off). It was implied in "Email Surveillance" that Kevin has pornography on his work computer (he says he will have to delete a lot of stuff if the computers are checked. "A lot of stuff"). In an interview from "Take Your Daughter to Work Day", Kevin states that his only hope is that Abby (Stacey's daughter) does not look on his computer. He then hurriedly leaves to check on her.

In a special Webisode, Angela sarcastically calls Kevin a genius, though Kevin secretly thinks his IQ of over 100 makes him a genius.

Season 3

Generally, he doesn't get much responsibility so in "The Merger", he is delighted that he gets to shred company documents, but in his excitement of showing everything that it can shred, he puts in his own credit card, which he quickly realizes his error. He later uses the shredder to make a salad. Kevin joins Angela's party in "A Benihana Christmas", but only because of the double-fudge brownies. His Police cover band, Scrantonicity, got to perform at "Phyllis' Wedding". It was the third wedding they performed at. They also played their bassist's wedding, and their guitarist's wedding. During "Cocktails" he is asked if he and Stacy have set a date for their wedding. Kevin says they have but it is very complicated, also hinting that they may have separated. During "The Merger" (deleted scene), he hides his M&M's under his desk so "they" (the new employees from Stamford) won't get to them, but is willing to share with Jim. In The Convict, Kevin implies that he is involved in insider trading.