Before Mike Schur helped create beloved comedy series like “The Good Place,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Parks and Recreation,” ...

"The Japanese Office" was a digital short featured on a May 2008 episode of "SNL." YouTube/Saturday Night Live A former ...

The fictional Japanese show starred white SNL cast members like Jason Sudeikis playing Jim, Kristen Wiig playing Pam, Bill ...

Looking back, The Office and SNL writer Mike Schur explains why "The Japanese Office" sketch "didn't feel right" on a number ...

Despite his time writing on Saturday Night Live, Michael Schur wasn’t a fan of one sketch parodying his work. After leaving ...

Mike Schur, The Office writer broke silence on Saturday Night Live’s Japanese Office parody. The short, which has garnered 17 ...

Schur, a former SNL writer who left the sketch comedy show in 2005 to write for The Office, said the 2008 digital short “didn’t feel right to me in some way”. When Steve Carell did The ...

Mike Schur won Emmys for his writing on both Saturday Night Live and The Office. The legendary writer's two iconic shows ...

"It didn't scratch the itch of reflecting [The Office] in the way that I was hoping the show would be reflected somehow," he ...

And, in a meta moment, The Office actually once mimicked a famous SNL sketch. In a season 3 episode, Carell’s Michael Scott ...