Mirka
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54 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Mirka’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The whole thing was lucky because Mirka actually told me that this was a fake pitch and she was like not going to do it. This was something she pitched in the pitch meeting to Steve and it was a fake one. And then I think everybody was like interested in it.
And then she said the reason I was asked to do it, I think she said I was one of the only people who watched the American version of The Office and had written that monologue with Sudeikis in it. Yes. When Rainn Wilson hosted, and so I had written the characters, so she came to me, I think, and was like, oh, you know the office. I don't know anything about it.
Yes. So what I learned when I got to SNL was we go into Lauren's office to meet the host for the first time on Monday and you have to pitch them two ideas usually. What I found was that people were doing joke pitches just to get a laugh in the room. Yes. And you just try to get a laugh in the room just to get it over with. And you'd also don't want to burn your good joke. Yeah.
If you pitch something and you get this big laugh in the pitch meeting and then at the table, everybody's heard that joke. Nobody laughs at the scene.
Yes. The biggest thing I learned from the pitch meeting was my first year when Harper Steel, the pitch was, so something about you playing a baker. Yeah. Oh, these don't have to be a thing. Yeah. These are just so that the host sees everybody they're working with.
Well, Seth, also with the pitch meeting, my thing became that I wanted to make the other writers and cast laugh.
Oh, that's $50 well spent.
Yes. And she was saying, I think when we wrote it, and I honestly don't 100% remember for sure, but I think we wrote it for it to be live. Yeah, I'm sure. And then I think you guys, I don't know how it got picked to be a digital short.
Yeah. And it's perfect for me because it also, the only digital shorts that I ever did never included Andy. Right. Yeah, that's just law. That's just law.
What would that look like?
yeah um but then i do think once it was made into uh like it was given to you then it made more sense because then it could look like the show yeah the show because it wouldn't have looked like the show live how long did it take to shoot i mean we didn't really even light very much it was very well executed i thought yeah watching it back the thing that struck me the most was how much it looked exactly like the show
America also told me that the extra, the bald extra who was in the digital short, he was really Japanese, and he wrote all the stuff that was on the board. Oh, the chalkboard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That was a good detail.
And she also wanted to make sure that, and we tried to make sure that everything that everybody said was as close to real Japanese. It wasn't like gibberish.
Mirka told me that she would say the dialogue to Steve and then Steve would just repeat back what she said to him. Correct. She was doing that to everybody. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. And when Miracle rewatched it, she said that Steve and Wig were both very good, like she could understand what they were saying and she was very impressed with them.
All the credits too were in Japanese and they were all like America's cousin's names and sister. Also, she said that Jason's credit in the episode was Mike Schur. Jason's character was played by Mike Schur in Japanese.
It really is all because the pilot, the American pilot, is basically the British pilot. It's very similar. They don't change a lot.
It had to be after Rashida was in the show because Rashida was in the monologue with Rain.
It's less. I bet it's season three.
Because first season, I don't think it really kicked off. Office premiered in 2005. And this is 2008. Yeah. Yes.
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