Rainn Wilson believes “The Office” must be totally different at the moment.
During a current look on “The Last Laugh” podcast, the actor, who performed Dwight Schrute on the hit NBC comedy, talked about how cringey components of the sequence might be.
Wilson cited “the Benihana Christmas episode” during which “Michael [Steve Carell] and Andy [Ed Helms] draw with a Sharpie on one of the Asian women that they’ve brought back to the Christmas party is jaw-droppingly, kind of horrific.”
“And it’s a tricky conversation. It’s like they’re clueless, and in their cluelessness, they’re racist and insensitive, and they’re always saying the wrong thing,” Wilson stated. “And that’s Michael, Dwight, and Andy…and Kevin [Brian Baumgartner] for that matter. So it’s a show based around clueless, insensitive, racist, sexist people that kind of mirrors the United States in a lot of ways.”
He will get that as humor it’s “funny as hell and it also kind of skewers a particular American sensibility.”
“But it definitely goes pretty far if you dig deep,” Wilson stated. “Could it occur at the moment? I feel it must be very, very totally different if it have been made on this atmosphere.
The mockumentary a few fictitious paper firm in Scranton, Pennsylvania aired from 2005 to 2013. There had been a deliberate spinoff, probably known as “The Farm,” that adopted Wilson’s character however was by no means made.
The Emmy-nominated actor defined in the course of the podcast that “NBC at that time had a new regime that came in and they wanted to do big, bright, flashy, splashy shows that were multi-cams and going back to ‘Friends’ kind of thing.”
“And they were just not interested at all in ‘Office’ spinoffs at the time. Had they taken ‘The Farm,’ they’d probably have another billion dollars in the bank. Even now, all the people that have seen ‘The Office’ 20 times, they’re going to watch ‘The Farm’ at least once or twice,” Wilson stated. “Would it have been as good as ‘The Office?’ No. No way. Not even close. Would it have been good? Would it have been solid? Would it have been a good solid comedy? Yeah, it would have, and we would’ve done some really cool stuff.”
“And I think they really missed out,” he added.
Peacock, NBC’s streaming service, not too long ago debuted “The Paper” which is a derivative of “The Office” which options the fictional documentary crew from that present.