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Michael Schur Recalls ‘SNL’s ‘The Japanese Office’ Sketch “Didn’t Feel Right”

After his time writing on 'Saturday Night Live', Michael Schur had an issue with the show's parody of his show 'The Office'.

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 appeared in the May 17, 2008 episode. The sketch was introduced by Gervais, who created and starred in the original BBC series that inspired The Office. He jokingly explained that the British version of The Office was based on a Japanese show, playing a digital short with Carell as a Japanese version of his character Michael Scott, leading an entirely Japanese-language episode with no subtitles.

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