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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Writer-producer Mike Schur, known for his Emmy-winning work on Saturday Night Live and The Office, recently shared his discomfort with a parody of the workplace sitcom featured on SNL. The sketch ...

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 ...

Mike Schur, a writer celebrated for his work on The Office, recently shared his mixed feelings about a 2008 Saturday Night Live sketch titled “The Japanese Office.” The parody, which aired during an ...