Kate Flannery, Meredith from The Office, Rolls Her Dresses Up Like Luncheon Meat

Meredith is just a character that Kate Flannery played on The Office for many years. In real life, she’s completely stable, sober, and responsible. And quite charming. (Meredith was also charming but in a “will she accidentally injure herself or others?” kind of way.) In her post-Office life (not her post office life), Kate has been touring around doing theater appearances with Jane Lynch and she’ll share all her best tips on how to pack for travel such that you don’t have to check a bag. She’ll also tell us all about her new memoir, Overserved: The Lucky Life of the Office Drunk. And if you’re still awake at the very end of the episode, she reads Seamus Heaney’s poem “Good-Night” out loud.

Would you like to read it here? Okay.

A latch lifting, an edged den of light
Opens across the yard.
Out of the low door
They stoop into the honeyed corridor,
Then walk straight through the wall of the dark.
A puddle, cobble-stones, jambs and doorstep
Are set steady in a block of brightness.
Till she strides in again beyond her shadows
And cancels everything behind her.

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