Office writer says SNL parody sketch rankled him

‘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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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 two series collided in May 2008 when “The Office” star Steve Carell hosted “SNL” and participated in a viral digital short titled “The
“The Office ”writer Mike Schur admits “SNL”'s Japanese parody 'rankled' him: 'It didn't feel right to me in some way'
"All the actors in the Japanese version are white people. It sort of didn't track to me somehow," the Emmy-winning former "Saturday Night Live" writer explained.
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 the SNL sketch ‘The Japanese Office’ “didn’t feel right to me in some way” when Steve Carell and Ricky Gervais
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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 sketch comedy show in 2005 to write for The Office,
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