As the latest collaboration between Greg Daniels and Steve Carell, Space Force, comes to
Netflix, the stars of The US Office look back at the making of a modern classic
Greg Daniels (showrunner): The
UK version hadn’t finished airing and I’d never heard of it. My agent sent me a VHS tape of season one. It had a somewhat boring title so I didn’t look at it. He told me he wanted to show it to someone else if I wasn’t interested, so I popped it in. I watched the entire first series that evening.
Michael Schur (writer/producer): I think
Seth Meyers was the first person who brought it to me. He had a friend doing improv olympics in Amsterdam and had brought back a bunch of DVDs. We watched it like it was the Superbowl. I just couldn’t believe what I was looking at.