“All the actors in the Japanese version are white people.
“I loved the first time whenRainn [Wilson]hosted and you did the parody ofThe Officewithhis monologue.
I was like, ‘They’re nailing this.
Steve Carell.Credit:Saturday Night Live/YouTube
Everyone’s nailing it,'” he recalled of the Dwight Schrute actor’s 2007 host turn.
However, the feeling differed when it came to the digital parody featuring the Dunder Mifflin boss.
“This, I was a little bit like, oh, okay.
Michael Schur as Mose on ‘The Office’.NBC/Courtesy Everett Collection
Like, it didn’t feel right to me in some way,” he explained.
To end the clip, Gervais declares, “It’s funny ‘cause it’s racist.”
Schur confessed he “doesn’t quite understand the premise” of the sketch.
“It sort of didn’t track to me somehow.”
I think everyone was looking to Marika being like, ‘This is your baby.
We’re gonna support it.’
But it was her thing.”
He also revealed an Easter egg in the faux show’s credits dedicated to Schur himself.
“So Jason’s character was played by Mike Schur in Japanese.”
“I remember having to go through the feelings of, like, ‘Are they making fun of it?
Or are they making fun of people doing their version of it?'”
Samberg recalled on an earlier podcast episode.
