New York Post27d
‘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 writer on the US version of “The Office ...
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‘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," he won Emmys as a writer on "Saturday Night Live" and "The Office.
The Hollywood Reporter26d
Mike Schur Remembers Being “Rankled” By ‘SNL’ Japanese Parody of ‘The Office’
"It didn't feel right to me in some way," he said. By Christy Piña Associate Editor “I worked at SNL, but you still feel like SNL at some point, at some level, is an arbiter of what matters in ...
Deadline.com28d
Michael Schur Recalls ‘SNL’s ‘The Japanese Office’ Sketch “Didn’t Feel Right”
Despite his time writing on Saturday Night Live, Michael Schur wasn’t a fan of one sketch parodying his work. After leaving the NBC sketch comedy show to write for The Office in 2005, he said ...
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“The Office” Writer Michael Schur Explains Why “SNL”’s 2008 ‘Japanese Office’ Parody ‘Didn't Track to Me'
On the Dec. 23 episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, Schur, 49, and CNN anchor Jake Tapper talked to Seth Meyers about which SNL Digital Shorts they loved the most. They called ...
The Independent28d
The Office writer says SNL parody sketch rankled him: ‘All actors are white people’
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The News International28d
‘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 million views on YouTube, featured Office star Steve Carell during ...
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The Office Writer Schur: SNL's Japanese Parody "Didn't Feel Right"
Schur came to the podcast to join his fellow SNL alum The Lonely Island and current Late Night host Meyers for a little career retrospective with Tapper to help evaluate which Lonely Island ...
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‘The Office’ writer says cringey Japanese parody on ‘SNL’ ‘rankled’ him: ‘It didn’t feel right’
A former writer on the US version of “The Office” says a “Saturday Night Live” parody of the workplace sitcom left him “a bit rankled.” Mike Schur, who wrote on “SNL” before he ...
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“The Office” Writer Michael Schur Explains Why “SNL”’s 2008 ‘Japanese Office’ Parody ‘Didn't Track to Me'
Saturday Night Live has always touched the zeitgeist — but did this parody of The Office miss the mark? One of the show’s writers, Michael Schur, thinks so. On the Dec. 23 episode of The ...