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Michael Schur
vulture festival 2023
Nov. 12, 2023
By Jennifer Zhan
The Good Place Helped Us GrieveThat final episode had nothing to do with morality. “It’s really about love and attention and caring.”
By Sam Sanders
best of 2022
Dec. 14, 2022
The Best Comedy Books of 2022 This year’s books all seemed to take on a particular tenor, ready for a comedy evolution still in progress.
By Brian Boone
Rutherford Falls Reckons Optimistically With America’s Flawed Past and PresentThe Peacock comedy tackles heavy topics like Indigenous erasure and revisionist history with the light touch expected of a Mike Schur co-production.
By Jen Chaney
trailer mix
Mar. 16, 2021
New Michael Schur Just Dropped Rutherford Falls is the latest addition to the canon.
By Charlotte Walsh
vulture lists
Jan. 30, 2020
Every Character on The Good Place , Ranked From demons to Janets, we’ve thoroughly evaluated the show’s best and worst people.
By Noel Murray
the good class
Nov. 14, 2019
Of Course The Good Place Got Its Own College Seminar Auditing The Good Class with guest lecturer Michael Schur (and 17 very lucky Notre Dame students).
By Lauren Chval
Abby’s Feels Like a Vintage Sitcom in Need of Fresh AirThe Michael Schur–produced NBC sitcom is very transparently a Cheers update, but it’s still figuring out the “update” part.
By Kathryn VanArendonk
behind the scenes
Dec. 6, 2018
By Whitney Friedlander
the good place
Sept. 27, 2018
The Good Place Showrunner Michael Schur Knows the Meaning of Life“‘Are you good or bad?’ is essentially unfair. That’s going to be the argument of the show when all is said and done.”
By Maureen Ryan
The Good Place Is Still the BestStill surprising, still hilarious, still forking great.
By Jen Chaney
How Mike Schur and Damon Lindelof’s Unlikely Bromance Shaped The Good Place “I wrote an email to my agent and said, ‘I would like you to set me up on a playdate with Damon Lindelof.’”
By Josef Adalian
Ted Danson on The Good Place , Curb Your Enthusiasm , and Imagining the Afterlife “If you’re trying to live to some degree honestly, there is always an existential crisis around the corner.”
By Maria Elena Fernandez
vulture lists
Feb. 2, 2017
7 Important Questions The Good Place Season Two Needs to Answer Who actually belongs in the Good Place? How will Eleanor find Chidi? And five more unanswered mysteries.
By Noel Murray
‘The Good Place’s Optimism Is a Salve for Despair in the Trump Era
On Thursday, January 19, 2017, the day before Donald Trump’s inauguration, I found myself filled with dread about the weeks, months, and […]
By Stephanie Palumbo
The Refreshing Artifice of ‘The Good Place’
I spent many weekends of my childhood watching and re-watching Monty Python & The Holy Grail with audio commentary. Like all little girls […]
By Bethy Squires
Netflix Orders a New Comedy Series from Aziz Ansari and Mike Schur Aziz Ansari is headed to Netflix with his very own show. According to THR, the streaming network has ordered a 10-episode half-hour comedy […]
By Megh Wright
How ‘Parks and Rec’ Transcended its Mockumentary Roots NBC’s Parks and Recreation ended its seven-season run Tuesday night and will go down as undoubtedly my favorite sitcom of its era. Created as a […]
By Brad Becker Parton
ask him anything
Feb. 25, 2015
Michael Schur Answers Your Lingering Parks and Recreation Questions “Thank you for watching the show, and caring about the show, for the last six years.”
By Michael Schur
ask him anything
Feb. 17, 2015
By Gazelle Emami
Mike Schur on the End of ‘Parks and Recreation’ and NBC’s Thursday Night […] If you’ve been a TV comedy fan within the past ten years, chances are that Mike Schur is behind one of your favorite shows. An original writer […]
By Megh Wright
Michael Schur Talks About Andy Samberg Playing a More Grounded Character […] Michael Schur and Dan Goor, the creators of the upcoming Brooklyn Nine-Nine, talked to Alan Sepinwall about the show and what it’s like taking […]
By Adam Frucci
Talking to Mike Schur About ‘Parks and Recreation’ and His New Show […] With the premiere of his new Fox show Brooklyn Nine-Nine set for the fall, Parks and Recreation showrunner and co-creator Mike Schur is poised […]
By Bradford Evans
Patton Oswalt to Guest Star on ‘Parks and Rec’ Patton Oswalt will be guest starring on an upcoming episode of Parks and Recreation, showrunner Mike Schur confirmed in a conference call […]
By Elise Czajkowski
Terry Crews to Star in Andy Samberg’s Fox Pilot; Phil Lord and Chris […] Actor and former NFL player Terry Crews has just been added to the cast of Andy Samberg’s untitled Fox pilot, according to Deadline. Phil Lord […]
By Bradford Evans
Andy Samberg and Mike Schur’s Cop Comedy Ordered to Pilot by Fox
The Fox network just ordered a pilot for a cop comedy starring Andy Samberg and created by Parks and Recreation co-creator Mike Schur and […]
By Bradford Evans
Jason Schwartzman and ‘Parks and Rec’ Co-Creator Michael Schur Worked on a […]
Rushmore and Bored to Death star Jason Schwartzman gave a nice little interview to Vulture this week, and when discussing his upcoming guest […]
By Bradford Evans
Andy Samberg Cast in Michael Schur’s Cop Show Fresh off his SNL departure, Andy Samberg has been cast in Parks and Recreation co-creator Michael Schur’s new cop sitcom for Fox, Deadline […]
By Bradford Evans
‘50 Power Showrunners’ List Includes Louis C.K., Seth MacFarlane, Lena […] The Hollywood Reporter put out a list today of “50 Power Showrunners,” the leading writer-producers in TV. Here’s the full roster of comedy […]
By Bradford Evans
‘Parks and Rec’ Showrunner Michael Schur Is Handing Out Season 5 Spoilers […] Entertainment Weekly just published a series of spoilers from Parks and Recreation’s showrunner Michael Schur, but with the names of the […]
By Bradford Evans
Cop Sitcom from ‘Parks and Rec’ Big Shots Is Exciting a Bidding Frenzy Parks & Rec showrunner Michael Schur and co-executive producer Dan Goor have created a single-cam comedy about a bunch of detectives who […]
By Jesse David Fox
Michael Schur Says Goodbye to Kevin Youklis’s Play-Doh Face “Kevin Youkilis is one of the most oddly shaped human beings in professional athletics. His torso is giant and cylindrical — he looks like a […]
By Jesse David Fox
‘I think coolness is kind of the death of good television.’ “I think coolness is kind of the death of good television. I think if you’re too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can’t really […]
By Adam Frucci
What Somewhat Famous Person Was the Basis for Andy Dwyer? As part of the AV CLUB walkthrough of this season of Parks & Recreation, Michael Schur addressed where the character of Andy came […]
By Jesse David Fox
Walk Through Every Episode of this Season of ‘Parks & Recreation’ Parks & Recreation Season 4 is getting the A.V. Club walkthrough treatment, with showrunner Michael Schur getting into both the nitty and […]
By Jesse David Fox
the dope on knope
May 11, 2012
Parks and Rec Showrunner Michael Schur Deconstructs Season FourHe talks Leslie’s political future, Ben’s move to D.C., and the Low-Cal Calzone Zone.
By Denise Martin
There Are Three Parks & Rec Season Finale Endings On Tape Not even the writing staff of Parks & Recreation know if Leslie will win her campaign for Pawnee City Council. At the show’s Paley Center […]
By Hallie Cantor
Paul Rudd Will Be Back for at Least Two More Parks and Rec Episodes “It depends on his schedule,” showrunner Mike Schur says, “and whether we can grab him and hold him down until he does more.”
By Josef Adalian
Enter the Parks & Rec Writers’ Room This article takes us untested innocents into the darkness of the Parks & Recreation writers’ room to uncover the mysterious - and often bloody […]
By Hallie Cantor
Michael Schur Gives Cheers the Respect it Deserves Parks and Rec showrunner Michael Schur really loves Cheers. So much so that he did an entire interview with Vulture about the show and what […]
By Adam Frucci
Parks and Recreation Showrunner Michael Schur Gives a Master Class on Cheers The writer waxes rhapsodic about just why the Ted Danson classic is the perfect sitcom, and how it influenced his own show.
By Josh Wolk
Parks and Rec Co-Creator Michael Schur Directed a Decemberists VideoHe tells us all about his homage to his longtime obsession, David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest.’
By Josef Adalian
Parks and Rec Showrunner Michael Schur Walks You Through Every Episode of […] Just like they did with Dan Harmon and Community, the AV Club has wrangled up Parks and Rec showrunner Michael Schur to talk in detail about […]
By Adam Frucci
the vulture transcript
May 19, 2011
By Kera Bolonik
Parks & Rec Showrunner Michael Schur on Jerry, Donna and Needing That […] I’m not going to lie; I was one of those people who saw the first episode of Parks & Rec and thought, “Eh, we’re doing this again? With the […]
By Halle Kiefer
Inside the New Season of Parks and Rec with Co-Creator Michael Schur Vulture has a great, in-depth interview with Parks and Rec co-creator Michael Schur, one that dives deep into the show and the upcoming season. […]
By Adam Frucci
the industry
Aug. 19, 2008
Russell Crowe to Play Bill Hicks? Plus: The Coens cast some well-deserving character actors in ‘A Serious Man,” and Tom Cruise makes his superhero move.
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