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‘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 parody sketch rankled him: ‘All actors are white people’
The Office writer Michael Schur has said the 2008 Saturday Night Live parody of the series, The Japanese Office, ended up leaving him “a little bit rankled”. Schur, a former SNL writer who ...
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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 ...
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“The Office” Writer Michael Schur Explains Why “SNL”’s 2008 ‘Japanese Office’ Parody ‘Didn't Track to Me'
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 ...
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“The Office ”writer Mike Schur admits “SNL”'s Japanese parody 'rankled' him: 'It didn't feel right to me in some way'
Writer-producer Mike Schur won Emmys for his work on both Saturday Night Live and The Office, but when the legendary sketch show took on a parody version of the workplace sitcom, it left him a ...
‘The Office’ writer says cringey Japanese parody on ‘SNL’ ‘rankled’ him: ‘It didn’t feel right’
Mike Schur, who wrote on “SNL” before he left the late night show to work on “The Office,” shared his thoughts about a sketch ...