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‘The Office’ writer Mike Schur reacts to the show’s reboot — and if he’d reprise Mose Schrute role

He’s not going back to Scranton. Mike Schur, who was a producer and writer on “The Office,” before he went on to co-create hit comedies like “Parks and Recreation” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” has ...
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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'

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I worked at SNL, but you still feel like SNL at some point at some level is an arbiter of what matters in the culture. And when ...
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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 digital ...
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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 Lonely Island ...
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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’

“It didn’t scratch the itch of reflecting [‘The Office’] in the way that I was hoping the show would be reflected somehow,” Schur said. “I worked at ‘SNL,’ but you still feel like ‘SNL’ at some point ...
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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 left the ...