Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

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🗓️ 23 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Michael Schur wrote for the The Office, and created The Good Place, and co-created Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. His new show for Netflix, A Man on the Inside, features Ted Danson as a widowed retiree who goes undercover in a retirement community. He spoke with Terry Gross about the series.

Later, comic and Silicon Valley actor Jimmy O. Yang talks about his new Hulu series, Interior Chinatown. He plays a waiter who inadvertently becomes central to a crime story.

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0:20.2	From W.HY.Y in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend. Today, the co-creator of the TV
0:28.2	series Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine, who also created The Good Place and wrote for the
0:34.1	office, Michael Shore. He has a new comedy series called A Man on the Inside.
0:39.7	Like The Good Place, it stars Ted Danson and draws on philosophy and ethics.
0:46.0	Later, a talk with comic and actor Jimmy O. Yang.
0:49.6	He stars on the new Hulu series, Interior Chinatown.
0:53.4	Yang is known for his roles in crazy rich Asians
0:56.0	and the TV series Silicon Valley.
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