The NBC sitcom would be “so inappropriate now,” she said.
Mindy Kaling, writer and star of “The Office,” recently claimed that thecouldn’t be made in today’s politically correct climate — because it’s “so inappropriate now.”
“The writers, who I’m still in touch with now, we always talk about how so much of that show we probably couldn’t make now,” Kaling, 43, said“Tastes have changed, and honestly what offends people has changed so much now. I think that actually is one of the reasons the show is popular, because people feel like there’s something kind of fearlessness about it or taboo that it talks about,” the New York Times best-selling author added.
The American version of the workplace comedy, based on the original British series of the same name, aired from 2005 to 2013 on NBC. Led by their cringeworthy regional manager Michael Scott , the series follows the daily life of the charismatic employees of Dunder Mifflin, a fictional paper company. It also starred John Krasinski, Jenna Fisher, BJ Novak and Rainn Wilson, among others.
Actors Kate Flannery, BJ Novak, Leslie David Baker, Mindy Kaling, Steve Carell, Phyllis Smith, Paul Lieberstein, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, Brian Baumgartner, Rainn Wilson in a 2006 episode of “The Office.”Dunder Mifflin employees Kelly Kapoor and Ryan Howard in the finale of “The Office” in 2013.On reflection, the show is guilty of comments that would not fly in 2022, including problematic jokes about characters’ various ethnicities and sexual orientations.
Kaling portrayed the bubbly, boy-crazy Kelly Kapoor in all nine seasons of the show. When asked what her character would be up to in a present-day reboot of the series, she replied, “I think she would have quit Dunder Mifflin to become an influencer, and then probably be canceled, almost immediately. Actually, most of the characters on that show would be canceled by now.”
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