Robert Smigel's recurring "TV Funhouse" characters actually originated on another former SNL cast member's show.

The two series collided in May 2008 when "The Office" star Steve Carell hosted "SNL" and participated in a viral digital short titled "The Japanese Office," which has earned 17 million views on ...

Schur, a former SNL writer who left the sketch comedy show in 2005 to write for The Office, said the 2008 digital short “didn’t feel right to me in some way”. When Steve Carell did The ...

NBC Steve Carell had Timothy Olyphant in stitches when he guest starred on The Office back in 2010. The Alien: Earth star joined fellow Office alumni Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey on the most ...

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"I worked at SNL, but you still feel like SNL at some ... Todd Williamson/NBC; Justin Lubin/NBCU Photo Bank Michael Schur (left); Steve Carell in 'The Office' (right) in 2005 Co-writer John ...

The latest who could get caught in the crosshairs? Steve Carell. The non-Jewish actor plays a Jewish therapist in the upcoming psychological thriller “The Patient,” which premieres Aug. 30 on ...

When Steve Carell did The Japanese Office, Schur said when asked if the short belonged in the best list, “I remember being a little bit rankled”. The pre-recorded SNL sketch in question was ...

When Steve Carell did The Japanese Office, Schur said when asked if the short belonged in the best list, “I remember being a little bit rankled”. The pre-recorded SNL sketch in question was introduced ...