‘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 ...
‘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,” ...
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The Office writer says SNL parody sketch rankled him: ‘All actors are white people’
The fictional Japanese show starred white SNL cast members like Jason Sudeikis playing Jim, Kristen Wiig playing Pam, Bill ...
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‘The Office’ writer criticises ‘SNL’s’ The Japanese Office Parody with Steve Carell
Mike Schur, The Office writer broke silence on Saturday Night Live’s Japanese Office parody. The short, which has garnered 17 ...
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'The Office' writer breaks silence on 'SNL's Japanese Parody of show
Mike Schur won Emmys for his writing on both Saturday Night Live and The Office. The legendary writer's two iconic shows ...
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Michael Schur Recalls ‘SNL’s ‘The Japanese Office’ Sketch “Didn’t Feel Right”
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 ...
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‘SNL’ and ‘The Office’ Alum Talks Regret Over ‘Japanese Office’ Sketch: It ‘Didn’t Feel Right’
It’s been 16 years since Saturday Night Live did a Japanese take on The Office, and Michael Schur, who is a former writer on both shows, wasn’t much of a fan of it. The Office star Steve Carell and ...
“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 ...
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The Office writer says SNL parody sketch rankled him: ‘All actors are white people’
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 ...
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‘The Office’ writer says cringey Japanese parody on ‘SNL’ ‘rankled’ him: ‘It didn’t feel right’
The cringey spoof aired on the May 17, 2008 episode of “SNL,” which was hosted by “The Office” star Steve Carell. “It didn’t scratch the itch of reflecting [‘The Office’] in the ...