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RW was a great Dwight Schrutte. His podcast is extremely boring.

Isn’t there an office spinoff airing right now

Always Sunny and South Park are still making new episodes. A new Scary Movie was just released in theaters. Meanwhile the Trump admin is threatening to pull the licenses of networks that say things he doesn’t like. What is he even talking about?

People complaining about 'you can't be funny now' are just saying 'hey. people don't find me funny anymore' and failing at introspection.

Sounds like someone went broke

Genuinely at a loss as to what "politically incorrect" aspects there even were in The Office. Not saying it wasn't a funny show, but it was socially milquetoast as fuck? Anything that might have approached edgy was just Michael being shown to be a genuinely terrible person.

Local wash up desperate for attention with stupid opinion.

Didn't they do an Office spinoff like six months ago?

Oh no, the over-rated US remake industry! What are we gonna do?!?

Having rewatched it recently, I think he's somewhat correct since it was so blatantly ignorant, mostly from the POV of two idiots. But it couldn't be made? Come on. Always Sunny does way worse. It's just that they're poking fun at the idiots.

What utter bollocks.

“That’s what she said!” So edgy.

The Daily Wire won’t make a show with this guy anymore, just because 99% of their funding dried up after Hungary ousted Viktor Orbán.

The show ended in 2013 — almost 15 years ago. How the hell can its ending be attributed to being “a victim of all this woke?”

There’s so much “anti pc” comedy out there. Like, they just put out a new Scary Movie. Shapiro made Ladyballers, there are hundreds of anti-woke family guy clones. They just tend to suck. Maybe if he understood his industry better, he’d get more work.

meh i like how the last season was all about getting in on 2010s startup scammer culture.

The office could be made today. it's called Tires.

Said it once and I'll say it again: There is no more pathetic species of entertainer than the washed up comedian.

Most of the people I see complaining that "you can't do edgy comedy anymore" are just mad that they can't punch down. IASIP does incredibly vile, crass, "politically incorrect" stuff in every episode but they're careful to make sure the main characters are consistently the butt of the joke IMO.

I think Rainn is still mad the series he was lead in - which was shot in famously progressive Portland - got canned.

They never seem to be aware of that show. Or some adult cartoons. Sometimes I think people think it’s wokeness when it’s really that things have been generally flattened out on major media & also what’s ‘offensive’ always changes. This isn’t new as a basic, comedy rarely ages well long before ‘woke’

He's insufferable.

Dwight really would say that.

Rainn Wilson is a Nazi, to Nazis like him, the whole world seems inconceivably leftist.

Not to mention a literal spinoff of The Office w Oscar that had the same exact feel/format IN 2025

well to be fair, NBC would definitely not greenlight always sunny. but they wouldn't have in 2005 either. mainstream tv networks always play it safe. has nothing to do with politics.

Logically Rainn hasn't seen It's always sunny...

edgy is really pathetic.

And family guy

After #chiligate? I think that's true

There’s a concept of a theory that, as the conceit of the documentary dragged on, the workers either exaggerated their depictions for more air time or were revealed as “like that” after growing more comfortable with the idea of existing on film. Both ideas are flimsy. It was just bad writing.

The famously woke America...

Pfft... 'Mind Your Language'

Rainy Wilson's new best friends are going to rewatch The Office and laugh with (not at) Michael Scott way too often, aren't they? When does Wilson suck up to Rogan and Maher,

Imagine thinking there's "'bias in the media' toward 'liberal policies'" when Bari Weiss is the "editor-in-chief" of CBS News.

this is exactly what Dwight Schrute would say

There's gonna be some Jonathan Majors/Rainn Wilson buddy-cop movie or some shit isn't there.

Hey remember that quaint show about the paper company in Scranton, it was actually the devil

Why do you idiots think literally repeating far right culture war horseshit that was never true is "calling out" the media?

Wilson is a whiny hack. Also demonstrably wrong.

Every time I see this take, I think of what a huge hit Cobra Kai was. Johnny called someone a pussy every episode and said something OTT offensive, and everyone loved him.

Family Guy is still on isn’t it? Who TF do people think they’re kidding when they shit like this?

There’s like 3 times they use slurs for LGBTQ people and honestly I’m not sure they’d even cut those if they made the Office today.

I wonder how much residuals he makes off the show still airing?

I’m confused by this because it felt like a liberal opus. Liberals create the edgier art.

When will people understand that censorship is not a liberal value.

Rainn Wilson is a fucking idiot.

Also, not really shown any real contrition towards his victims.

they had a for-profit cage fight on the White House lawn literally yesterday,

The Office is still playing on television on numerous channels today, wtf is he talking about? I'm sick of fragile, white men feeling victimized by some imagined woke fantasy that they're somehow oppressed. Go eat beets, Rainn.

Studios make tired follow-ups to shit from 25 years ago all the time. There is literally a sequel to The Office headed into Season 2 on Peacock right now.

He made some show in Netflix or someplace where he tried to profit off of alternative medicine and Eastern religions. I don't think anyone watched.

oh, no may need a hazmat suit to wade into that much cringe

He is a religious person. 🤷

This makes so much sense.

Guess he never saw "What We Do In the Shadows" then. It ran after the office was done and got six years out. Or any other number of hit shows that in my opinion, were better than the Office ever was, and I actually liked that show. I think he's just big mad that his detective show flopped.

So in other words, Rainn Wilson is a fucking moron who hasn't paid attention to the last decade of international politics, culture, or the entertainment industry whatsoever.

Rainn Wilson wants a new office because he can't manage to get a steady gig. So long as Always Sunny is on, these complaints are always obviously full of shit.

Rainn needs to cut down on the mushrooms

Stephen Colbert would like an opportunity for rebuttal, I'm sure.

I never liked this remake so feeling good about that.

Sounds about white.

A man can’t even be milquetoast anymore, because of woke

It probably couldn't be made today, because it would cost the network too much money. Networks would rather make reality shows, game shows, and news shows.

we had a nationally televised bloodsports session on the White House Lawn last night, during which one of the knuckle dragging hog men participating accused the black former first lady of being trans as a slur

Remind us Rainn. Which president got their feelings hurt and demanded that Colbert and Kimmel be taken off the air? Was a liberal or a conservative?

The Office? Seriously?

Bill Maher still has a job. The President of the United States is an open white supremacist. Almost every media organization is now owned by one of a handful of right wing billionaires who repeatedly leak eugenics takes into the atmosphere.

I DECLARE LIBERALWOKEPOLICIES!

Yawn. Write some real stuff, for the love of god.

As with many US sitcoms, the character was not the sort of person you could meet and despise in real life. He was a ridiculous caricature who you can love specifically because he's not realistic. Unlike the US remake, the original show wasn't afraid to have unlikeable and realistic characters.

Mackenzie Crook has been successfully plugging away on British TV, making cool stuff like The Detectorists and Small Gods

i watched the whole thing he did not at any point become less grotesquely hatable

as you say, to be sure

Ah yes, that's America's current problem.

Shut up Dwight

john cleese without any of the bravura pieces

Some shows dabbled with it, even in the '70s and '80s, such as 'Fawlty Towers" and "The Young Ones", and some stand-up comedians such as Rik Mayall & Alexei Sayle made unlikeable characters part of their routine, but no one added the range of character development as was the point of "The Office".

MASH, the Documentary

Not in the British version. It was designed to last just 12 half-hour episodes, so 6 hours total.

Ah yes the show that is syndicated on, like, the White Women Comfort Show channel 14 times a day is too edgy to exist today.

Also, aren’t they actively making The Office today? Didn’t they lock Domhall Gleeson in a building with Oscar and a batch of UCB grads?

This is a very dumb and bad take. Also “The Office” is as subversive as a glass of milk

bro what? white bread ass show with white bread ass actors? "this is too much for the woke" -The whitest lamest person you have ever met fuck offffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

Any idea?

I'm not watching a whole Fox News segment, but he showed up there and said the media has a liberal bias (in a moment of unprecedented media consolidation under MAGA ownership) and unironically invoked "political correctness," so I think his position is pretty clear.

how is a show about an obnoxious, stupid, ignorant, and inept boss politically incorrect? Oh...

South Park and Always Sunny are both still on the air.

A proven indicator that a comedian has devolved into a whiny loser is being publicly quoted saying something like "you can't do/say X these days because of Y"

swing and a miss

Ugh, not this poor me I'm an old straight white male bullshit from Rainn Wilson, too. Disappointing.

I loved The Office, but if he thinks that show was very conservative (which it sounds like what he's trying to say, as silly as it seems) so it "could not be made today" for that reason (???), then I have a really nice bridge near Brooklyn he might be interested in purchasing.

The office didn't make fun of vulnerable people, they made fun of the a guy that didn't even hate vulnerable people.

They got rid of Season 1 Michael because viewers hated the character.

Also I’d imagine it’s harder to sustain an unlikable character for 201 episodes versus the UK’s 14 episodes