Steve Carell is an Award-winning comedian and actor known for his work in the NBC sitcom The Office, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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