Giannis Antetokounmpo stars with beloved 'Office' actor in new Johnsonville video promoting positivity online

Actor Brian Baumgartner, aka Kevin Malone from "The Office," said he and Giannis Antetokounmpo are "super-tight" and told the Milwaukee Bucks superstar to "hit him up later."

With Giannis' response, I wouldn't hold my breath, Kev.

Thank goodness it's all just a part of the storyline of Johnsonville's new video, promoting more positivity online and on social media. Otherwise that would be ... awkwarddd.

Giannis and Baumgartner, along with actress Tia Mowry and comedian/actor Lil Rel Howery, star in the video. It's selfie-style and flips through the celebs, who play off of each other's lines.

The video highlights the movement the Sheboygan Falls-based sausage company is trying to start to "fix the internet." How? By using ad dollars to put "as much positive content as we can atop America’s social media feeds," Johnsonville's website said.

"Sounds impossible. Let's do it," Antetokounmpo said in the video.

Johnsonville is already the official sausage of the Bucks, Milwaukee Brewers and Summerfest. So, why not be the official sausage of online positivity, too? In the video, a laughing Howrey said: "Yeah. That makes sense."

The company started the effort, called #KeepTheInternetJuicy, on June 22, Positive Media Day — there truly is a day for everything — and will continue it through Nov. 13, which is International Kindness Day, its website said.

In the video, the four celebs said they stand with the 89% of Americans who wish social media was less negative. That percentage comes from Johnsonville’s National Temperature Check, a national survey of 2,085 U.S. adults conducted online by The Harris Poll.

And, "it's about to get even more heated out there," Antetokounmpo said in the video. We are in an election year, after all.

"Let's turn down the temperature," he said.

"I'm a thousand percent with these guys," Baumgartner continued. "Giannis and I? We are super-tight."

Cut to Giannis shaking his head heck no.

Johnsonville, along with its cast of celebs, is enlisting, well, everyone — especially brands and people with big followings — to join the movement and help make the internet a kinder, less hateful place, according to the video and site.

"When we see people doing good things for each other ..." Mowry said.

"... it makes (you) want to do good things for somebody else," Antetokounmpo concluded.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Giannis Antetokounmpo stars in Johnsonville online positivity video