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“The Office ”writer Mike Schur admits “SNL”'s Japanese parody 'rankled' him: 'It didn't feel right to me in some way'

"I worked at SNL, but you still feel like SNL at some point at some level is an arbiter of what matters in the culture. And when [Carell] did 'The Japanese Office,' I remember being a little bit ...
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‘The Office’ Writer Says ‘SNL’s’ Japanese Office Parody With Steve Carell ‘Didn’t Feel Right’ and Left Him ‘Rankled’: ‘All the Actors Are White People’

Before Mike Schur helped create beloved comedy series like “The Good Place,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Parks and Recreation,” he won Emmys as a writer on “Saturday Night Live” and “The Office.” The ...
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‘The Office’ writer says cringey Japanese parody on ‘SNL’ ‘rankled’ him: ‘It didn’t feel right’

"The Japanese Office" was a digital short featured on a May 2008 episode of "SNL." YouTube/Saturday Night Live A former writer on the US version of “The Office ...
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‘The Office’ writer Mike Schur reacts to the show’s reboot — and if he’d reprise Mose Schrute role

He’s not going back to Scranton. Mike Schur, who was a producer and writer on “The Office,” before he went on to co-create hit comedies like “Parks and Recreation” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” has ...
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‘The Office’ Writer Thought 1 Episode Would End in a ‘Tragic Accident’

Members of The Office cast have always been candid about the fact that they’d loved working on the hit show. Even though the comedy boasts a large ensemble cast with a myriad of diverse personalities, ...
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The Office writer Mike Schur says SNL parody 'didn't feel right'

Mike Schur successfully transitioned from writing at Saturday Night Live to working on some of the best sitcoms of all-time. So when Schur gave his thoughts on SNL's attempt to parody his show The ...
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‘The Office’ Writer and Actor Paul Lieberstein Says the Scranton Strangler Didn’t Strangle People to Death—’Sound[s] like Toby’

Though The Office premiered in 2005, it’s a show that fans relentlessly return to — particularly in times of boredom, stress, and indecision. Suffice to say, The Office came back in a big way this ...
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“The Office ”writer Mike Schur admits “SNL”'s Japanese parody 'rankled' him: 'It didn't feel right to me in some way'

Writer-producer Mike Schur won Emmys for his work on both Saturday Night Live and The Office, but when the legendary sketch show took on a parody version of the workplace sitcom, it left him a "bit ...
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The Office Writer Schur: SNL's Japanese Parody "Didn't Feel Right"

Schur came to the podcast to join his fellow SNL alum The Lonely Island and current Late Night host Meyers for a little career retrospective with Tapper to help evaluate which Lonely Island digital ...