18 Facts About Michael Schur

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Michael Herbert Schur was born on October 29,1975 and is an American television producer, writer, director and actor.

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Michael Schur was a producer and writer for the comedy series The Office, and co-created Parks and Recreation with Office producer Greg Daniels.

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Michael Schur created The Good Place, co-created the comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine and was a producer on the series Master of None.

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Michael Schur was born in 1975, at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to a Jewish family.

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Michael Schur's parents are Warren M Schur and Anne Herbert.

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Michael Schur first became interested in comedy when he was 11 years old, when he read Woody Allen's 1975 collection of humorous essays Without Feathers.

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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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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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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 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 2019, Michael Schur began development of a scripted comedy called Rutherford Falls starring Ed Helms.

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Michael Schur is married to JJ Philbin, who was formerly a writer on The OC.