1. Michael Herbert Schur was born on October 29,1975 and is an American television producer, writer, director, and actor.
21 Facts About Michael Schur
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Michael Schur started his career as a writer for Saturday Night Live before gaining acclaim as a writer and producer of the NBC sitcom The Office, where he played Mose Schrute.
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Michael Schur expanded his career co-creating Parks and Recreation with Greg Daniels and creating the Fox sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the NBC sitcom The Good Place, the Peacock sitcom Rutherford Falls, and the Netflix comedy series A Man on the Inside.
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Michael Schur has served as a producer of the Netflix series Master of None and the HBO Max series Hacks.
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Michael Schur was born in 1975, at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Michael Schur later said he initially applied for the job in the fall of 1997, but Tina Fey got the job and he was hired that winter.
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Michael Schur became the producer of Weekend Update in 2001; his first show in the new role was Saturday Night Lives first episode after the September 11 attacks.
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Michael Schur co-wrote The Office: The Accountants webisodes with Paul Lieberstein.
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In 2005, Michael Schur served as a co-producer of HBO's The Comeback and wrote two of its 13 episodes.
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Over time, Michael Schur realized Parks and Recreation would work better if they made it separate from The Office.
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Michael Schur wrote for Fire Joe Morgan, a sports journalism blog, under the pseudonym "Ken Tremendous".
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Michael Schur resurrected the pen name on March 31,2011, when he began writing for SB Nation's Baseball Nation site.
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Michael Schur wrote his undergraduate senior thesis on the novel and once held the film rights to it.
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In 2013, Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur created The PosCast, which is hosted by Meadowlark Media.
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On September 19,2016, the Michael Schur-created sitcom The Good Place began airing on NBC.
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In 2019, Michael Schur joined other Writers Guild of America writers in firing their agents as part of the WGA's stand against the ATA and the practice of packaging.
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In 2022, Michael Schur released his first book, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question, which provides a humorous take on the ethical philosophy questions he studied while writing and producing The Good Place.
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Michael Schur has developed a comedy series starring Ted Danson titled A Man on the Inside that debuted on Netflix in November 2024.
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Michael Schur is married to JJ Philbin, who was formerly a writer on The OC.
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Michael Schur first became interested in comedy at 11 years old when he read Woody Allen's 1975 collection of humorous essays Without Feathers.
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Michael Schur said he found the book on his father's bookshelf and stayed up reading it until 4 am He has cited other influences as Monty Python, David Foster Wallace, and The Simpsons.