"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 ...

The two series collided in May 2008 when "The Office" star Steve Carell hosted "SNL" and participated in a viral digital short titled "The Japanese Office," which has earned 17 million views on ...

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 ...

but you still feel like SNL at some point at some level is an arbiter of what matters in the culture,” he explained. “And when [Carell] did 'The Japanese Office,' I remember being a little bit ...

Kristen Wiig as Pam and Steve Carell as Michael in The Japanese Office (Saturday Night Live/YouTube) The Office, based on a BBC series of the same name, ran for nine seasons from 2005 to 2013.

Mike Schur, The Office writer broke silence on Saturday Night Live’s Japanese Office parody. The short, which has garnered 17 million views on YouTube, featured Office star Steve Carell during ...

but you still feel like SNL at some point, at some level, is an arbiter of what matters in the culture,” he explained. “And when he did ‘The Japanese Office,’ I remember being a little bit ...

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 rankled," Schur ...

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 ...

Schur — who was a writer and producer of The Office and created series like Parks and Recreation, The Good Place and The Man Inside — also worked at SNL early in his career. During the podcast, Meyers ...