The Office, SNL and Michael Schur

Michael Schur Recalls ‘SNL's ‘The Japanese Office' Sketch "Didn't Feel Right"
Despite his time writing on Saturday Night Live, Michael Schur wasn’t a fan of one sketch parodying his work. After leaving the NBC sketch comedy show to write for The Office in 2005, he said the SNL sketch ‘The Japanese Office’ “didn’t feel right to me in some way” when Steve Carell and Ricky Gervais
“The Office” Writer Michael Schur Explains Why “SNL”’s 2008 ‘Japanese Office’ Parody ‘Didn't Track to Me'
And, in a meta moment, The Office actually once mimicked a famous SNL sketch. In a season 3 episode, Carell’s Michael Scott and Wilson’s Dwight perform “Lazy Scranton,” itself a parody of The Lonely Island’s iconic 2005 short "Lazy Sunday ."
The Office writer says SNL parody sketch rankled him: ‘All actors are white people’
The Office writer Michael Schur has said the 2008 Saturday Night Live parody of the series, The Japanese Office, ended up leaving him “a little bit rankled”. Schur, a former SNL writer who left the sketch comedy show in 2005 to write for The Office,
Mike Schur Remembers Being “Rankled” By ‘SNL’ Japanese Parody of ‘The Office’
“It was a very big deal that he hosted, a big deal that Rainn [Wilson, who plays Dwight Schute in the comedy] hosted,” Schur said. “I loved the first time when Rainn hosted, and you did the like parody of The Office with his monologue. I was like, they’re nailing this. Everyone’s nailing it.”
Michael Schur Opens Up On SNL’s Version Of The Office In Japanese; Says ‘I Remember Being A Little Rankled’
Michael Schur opened up about his thoughts on the parody sketches in Saturday Night Live. While the actor-producer spent most of his time writing for the show, he claimed that one of The Office sketches back in 2008 got on to his nerves.
‘The Office’ writer says cringey Japanese parody on ‘SNL’ ‘rankled’ him: ‘It didn’t feel right’
Mike Schur, who wrote on “SNL” before he left the late night show to work on “The Office,” shared his thoughts about a sketch called “The Japanese Office” during an interview on a recent episode of “The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast.”
Didn’t Like ‘SNL’s’ Japanese ‘Office’ Sketch? Neither Did Michael Schur
That happens a lot, even on the grandest of stages like Saturday Night: Live. The 2000s are filled with plenty of comedy moments that scream, “We were still doing that?” A lot of those moments include blackface;
‘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 two series collided in May 2008 when “The Office” star Steve Carell hosted “SNL” and participated in a viral digital short titled “The
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 Office,
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 9 - Will It Ever Happen?
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