Michael Schur Says Goodbye to ‘The Good Place’

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🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of the ‘The Good Place’ series finale, creator Michael Schur is here to answer all of our burning questions about the existential sitcom, which airs its series finale at the end of January. On this episode, taped inside his office on the Universal Studios lot, Schur reveals how the final season of ‘Parks and Recreation’ helped influence the end of ‘The Good Place’, looks back at his early days as a writer for SNL, teases a potential future for ‘The Office’ on NBC’s Peacock streaming service and a lot more.

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0:00.0	Hi, Eleanor. I'm Michael.
0:03.5	How are you today?
0:04.9	I'm great. Thanks for asking.
0:07.4	Oh, one question. Where am I? Who are you and what's going on?
0:12.3	Right. So, you, Eleanor Sheldstrom, are dead. Your life on Earth has ended, and you are now in the next phase of your existence in the universe.
0:24.6	Cool.
0:25.6	Cool. I have some questions.
0:28.6	Don't you mind?
0:29.6	Michael Scher, creator of the Good Place, is here with me to answer all of your burning questions about life, death,
0:39.0	and most importantly, comedy. It's The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast.
0:45.3	For this week's show, we're taking you inside the brand new office of the man who not only wrote and produced
0:51.0	The Office, but also created Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine,
0:55.9	and The Good Place, which will air its highly anticipated series finale at the end of this month.
1:01.8	Even though you may recognize him as Mo Schroot from the office, Michael Schurr isn't quite a household
1:07.0	name, and yet he's directly responsible for some of the funniest and most popular
1:11.5	comedy of the past two decades, starting with his first ever TV job as a young writer for
1:16.9	Saturday Night Live. Along with Adam McKay and Tina Fey, he wrote some of the best political
1:21.7	sketches during the Will Ferrell as George W. Bush era. We talk about all of that, including
1:27.4	the end game for the good place,
1:29.2	and a possible future for the office on NBC's new streaming service Peacock.
1:34.3	Quick note before we get to the good stuff.
1:36.8	If you like this podcast, please leave a five-star review on Apple Podcasts
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