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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 their ...
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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'

"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 [Carell] did 'The Japanese Office,' I remember being a little bit ...
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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 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 "bit ...