Despite the time he spent writing Saturday Night LiveMichael Schur wasn't a fan of a single sketch mocking his work.
After leaving the NBC comedy show to write about it The office In 2005 he said SNL The “Japanese Office” sketch “somehow wasn't right for me” when Steve Carell and Ricky Gervais appeared in the May 17, 2008 episode.
“I worked in SNLbut you still feel it SNL “At some point, at some level, he is the arbiter of what matters in the culture,” Shor said. The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. “And when [Carell] “I did 'Japanese Office,' I remember being a little upset.”
The sketch was submitted by Gervais, who created and starred in the original BBC series that inspired it The office. He jokingly explained that the British version of The office It was based on a Japanese show, running a digital short with Carell as the Japanese version of his character Michael Scott, leading an episode entirely in Japanese with no subtitles.
“It's like they stole the show from me, but I stole it from the Japanese version, but all the actors in the Japanese version are white,” Schur explained. “He kind of didn't follow me one way or another.”
Shore said it was a “pretty big deal” when any of it happened The office The SNL host stars, noting that he “loved the first time” when he hosted Rainn Wilson in 2007, and parodies the workplace mockumentary in his opening monologue. “I was like, ‘They’re nailing this,’” everyone remembers.
Based on the 2001-2003 BBC series of the same name, The office It ran for nine seasons on NBC from 2005 to 2013.
