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

“It was a very big deal that he hosted, a big deal that Rainn [Wilson, who plays Dwight Schute in the comedy] hosted,” Schur said. “I loved the first time when Rainn hosted, and you did the like parody of The Office with his monologue. I was like, they’re nailing this. Everyone’s nailing it.”

Michael Schur opened up about his thoughts on the parody sketches in Saturday Night Live. While the actor-producer spent most of his time writing for the show, he claimed that one of The Office sketches back in 2008 got on to his nerves.

That happens a lot, even on the grandest of stages like Saturday Night: Live. The 2000s are filled with plenty of comedy moments that scream, “We were still doing that?” A lot of those moments include blackface;

Mike Schur, who wrote on “SNL” before he left the late night show to work on “The Office,” shared his thoughts about a sketch called “The Japanese Office” during an interview on a recent episode of “The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast.”