Michael Schur

Well, let me reintroduce you again. If you're just joining us, my guest is Michael Schur. After writing for The Office and co-creating Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, he created The Good Place and the new series, A Man on the Inside, which is now streaming on Netflix. We'll be back after a short break. I'm Terry Gross, and this is Fresh Air. Hi, this is Molly C.V.

Well, let me reintroduce you again. If you're just joining us, my guest is Michael Schur. After writing for The Office and co-creating Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, he created The Good Place and the new series, A Man on the Inside, which is now streaming on Netflix. We'll be back after a short break. I'm Terry Gross, and this is Fresh Air. Hi, this is Molly C.V.

Well, let me reintroduce you again. If you're just joining us, my guest is Michael Schur. After writing for The Office and co-creating Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, he created The Good Place and the new series, A Man on the Inside, which is now streaming on Netflix. We'll be back after a short break. I'm Terry Gross, and this is Fresh Air. Hi, this is Molly C.V.

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It's also the only place where we tell you what's coming up next week in exclusive. So subscribe at whyy.org slash fresh air and look for an email from Molly every Saturday morning. This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross. Let's get back to my interview with Michael Schur, one of the people behind several beloved TV shows.

After writing for The Office, he co-created Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He created The Good Place and the new series A Man on the Inside, starring Ted Danson, who also starred in The Good Place. So many comics, when they're young, like they're the class clown. They're the ones who's always getting punished for acting up.

After writing for The Office, he co-created Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He created The Good Place and the new series A Man on the Inside, starring Ted Danson, who also starred in The Good Place. So many comics, when they're young, like they're the class clown. They're the ones who's always getting punished for acting up.

After writing for The Office, he co-created Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He created The Good Place and the new series A Man on the Inside, starring Ted Danson, who also starred in The Good Place. So many comics, when they're young, like they're the class clown. They're the ones who's always getting punished for acting up.

They're the ones whose parents have to come and explain their child's behavior. And they're misfits. And then they find comedy and, you know, often become celebrities and are very well rewarded for it. But it sounds like you through your life, you were always like... Playing within the rules and that that was always important to you.

They're the ones whose parents have to come and explain their child's behavior. And they're misfits. And then they find comedy and, you know, often become celebrities and are very well rewarded for it. But it sounds like you through your life, you were always like... Playing within the rules and that that was always important to you.

They're the ones whose parents have to come and explain their child's behavior. And they're misfits. And then they find comedy and, you know, often become celebrities and are very well rewarded for it. But it sounds like you through your life, you were always like... Playing within the rules and that that was always important to you.

So as perhaps one of the minority members of comedy who played by the rules, how do you explain yourself?

So as perhaps one of the minority members of comedy who played by the rules, how do you explain yourself?

So as perhaps one of the minority members of comedy who played by the rules, how do you explain yourself?

How has that code worked for you working at networks? Because, like, the new series is on Netflix, but most of your shows were on network TV, on broadcast TV, where there's standards and practices and rules you have to obey and, you know, executives you have to answer to.

How has that code worked for you working at networks? Because, like, the new series is on Netflix, but most of your shows were on network TV, on broadcast TV, where there's standards and practices and rules you have to obey and, you know, executives you have to answer to.