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‘Office’ alum BJ Novak finally ‘pardoned’ by the MFA for his 1997 prank


BJ Novak messed with the tour audio at the historic Boston institution; 27 years later, he’s been pardoned by the MFA.

In 1997, the Newton South High School student and future “The Office” alum pranked MFA-goers by re-recording an audio tour for “Tales From the Land of Dragons.’’ Novak and Newton South High School classmate Amir Dehestani “regaled” a sold-out crowd “with stories from their youth,” as part of their Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Celebrity Lecture Series, according to the MFA. The “stunt … confused countless innocent visitors and showed us that even the pettiest and most sophomoric pranksters among us can leave an impact on a historic institution,” they added.

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